User Shares Personal Homelab Setup Milestone
A hobbyist shares their personal journey of building a self-hosted media server stack over several years, progressing from bare-metal Plex to a 40+ container Docker environment. This is a celebratory post with no identifiable problem, pain point, or actionable gap. It contains no signal of a market need or unmet demand.
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