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r/homelab

Welcome to your friendly /r/homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc. Founded 2012 · 1.1M members

1.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 19.6K upvotes, which works out to 18 per 1,000 members.

18peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.1Mmembers
19.6Kbest post
2.3Kmost comments
1.2Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

32% 23% 18% 17% 10%
Text 32% Image 23% Question 18% Gallery 17% Link 10% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Help 439 Discussion 244 Project Showcase: Hardware 208 LabPorn 67 Solved 50 Meme 29 Labgore 20 Project Showcase: Operations 20 Satire 13 Tutorial 12

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Gigabit router was only hitting 100Mb. Diagnosis: Cat8 cable

↑ 19.6K 💬 308 image 2021

Got an alert that just my 2nd CPU temps were elevated and investigated…

↑ 18.9K 💬 1.1K image 2025

My friend actually built a whole ass data Center at home 😭

↑ 18.1K 💬 946 image 2025

APC appreciation post

↑ 14.8K 💬 325 image 2025

Quick reminder to pull out the wireless card out of your LG smart tv 😉

↑ 11.7K 💬 2.3K image 2026

The Best Book for Homelabbers

↑ 11.3K 💬 148 image 2017

A school in my area closed down and I was given the chance to pay 1000€ to pull all of their networking equipment (and keep it)

↑ 11.2K 💬 409 image 2025

What do you guys think of my minilab "Saturn V[U]"

↑ 11.1K 💬 362 gallery 2025

Got paid in hardware for a gig recently. Can’t say I’ve ever been paid in gold bars before.

↑ 10.8K 💬 314 image 2026

Homelab is still running after missle shot💪💪💪

↑ 10.7K 💬 633 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/homelab, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/homelab?
r/homelab describes itself this way: Welcome to your friendly /r/homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc. It was founded in 2012 and has 1.1M members.
How many members does r/homelab have?
r/homelab has about 1.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 19.6K upvotes, which is 18 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/homelab?
"Gigabit router was only hitting 100Mb. Diagnosis: Cat8 cable" reached 19.6K upvotes and 308 comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/homelab.
What subreddits are similar to r/homelab?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/PastAndPresentPics.
What kind of posts do best on r/homelab?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are text posts and 23% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/homelab?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 10:00 UTC (6K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/homelab?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/homelab has 8.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 348 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/homelab, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.