Homelab Hero · No. 014

One incident. Three calls.

Boss Fight. Friday, 6 PM. You run the monthly update on your main services host — new kernel, new container runtime — and reboot into trouble: the reverse proxy will not start on the new runtime, and movie night, the photo sync and the family password vault all sit behind it. Your pre-update snapshot, taken an hour ago, is sitting right there.

Your call:

A. Roll back to the pre-update snapshot now, confirm every service answers, and retry the upgrade on a weekday morning with the failure notes in hand

B. Stay on the new system and hand-start the proxy with a compatibility workaround

C. Re-run the updater and reboot again, hoping a second pass settles it

100 Hero Points for the right call — 200 on the Friday Boss Fight. From Issue No. 014 of The Homelab Herald. Your result lands on the next page, ready to share.