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Building a Self-Hosted AI Development Platform — Part 1: Why Build One?
Part 1 of the Forge series: turning an old dual Xeon workstation into a documented, rebuildable home platform for AI-assisted development, self-hosted Git, and automation
3 part series
Building a Self-Hosted AI Development Platform
Every post in this series, in reading order. Start at Part 1 and work through the build step by step.
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Building a Self-Hosted AI Development Platform — Part 2: Installing Proxmox on Old Dual Xeon Hardware
Part 2 of the Forge series: choosing Proxmox over the alternatives, installing it on a dual Xeon workstation board, and the sequencing mistakes worth avoiding
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Building a Self-Hosted AI Development Platform — Part 3: Storage Layout with a ZFS Mirror and SSD Tiers
Part 3 of the Forge series: carving four old drives into two deliberate tiers — a ZFS mirror for the data that matters and SSD thin pools for the containers that move