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Home Lab Explorers is a Skool community about building and running home labs, covering self-hosting, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps and virtualization.[1] Brandon Lee set up the group in April 2025 and announced it on Virtualization Howto, Lee's own site.[1][2] Lee spent about 10 years as a full-time network administrator and VMware vSphere admin before moving into DevOps and architect work.[3]

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Members
1,718
Members, last 28 days
+26
5 Oct 2026 to 2 Nov 2026
Rank by members
#1,052
of 6,073 sellers listed here
Size rank in niche
#71
of 340 sellers listed in software and tech, by published members
Check the Course score
88
B+, strong
Niche
Software and tech
353 listed here
Created
27 Apr 2025
Skool publishes this date
Readings
20
since 7 Sept 2026

About Home Lab Explorers

The group is a place to discuss topics, arrange meetups and post classes and resources, giving more structure to educational content on home labs, virtualization, containers, DevOps, Kubernetes and server hardware.[2] Resources posted at launch included Proxmox Up and Running, an e-book of more than 300 pages, Home Lab Beginner Worksheets, an e-book on nested virtualization in Proxmox and VMware ESXi, and a Proxmox Ceph Storage Deep Dive video.[2] In the same announcement, Lee planned full courses on Docker, Docker Swarm, Docker and Kubernetes home labs, Proxmox and VMware vSphere.[2]

Virtualization Howto covers virtualization, cloud computing, containers and Kubernetes, and home lab learning, and it hosts VHT Forum, with sections for home lab discussion, home lab pictures, how-tos, and Kubernetes and containers.[3][4] As of September 2026, the site's separate Premium membership, with ad-free browsing, learning videos, training and e-books, cost $4.99 a month or $50 a year.[5] Lee also writes Between the Clouds, a Substack newsletter on virtualization, homelab and cloud, and runs a YouTube channel on cloud, enterprise virtualization, Kubernetes, containers, networking and home lab environments.[5][6]

Sources

  1. Skool listing: skool.com/homelabexplorers, as collected 21 Sept 2026
  2. Official website: virtualizationhowto.com/2025/04/home-lab-explorers-school..., retrieved 28 Sept 2026
  3. Official website: virtualizationhowto.com/about, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
  4. Official website: virtualizationhowto.com/community, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
  5. Official website: virtualizationhowto.com, retrieved 28 Sept 2026
  6. YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A, retrieved 28 Sept 2026

Compiled by Check the Course from the sources listed, to the best of our ability.

What the listing describes
NicheSoftware and tech

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What is inside

Course modules
7
Courses
7
Posts, all time
699
People running it
2

Counts published by Home Lab Explorers on its own page, read on 30 Sept 2026: how much is included, never how good it is. Listed as run by brandon-lee-6945.

How we knowSourced & dated
Observed on 2 Nov 2026 from Skool source page archived copy da4403859806.
Observable monthly ceiling
Not calculated

No price is published for this community, so no ceiling is calculated. Absence of a price is not a claim that it is free.

Against the software and tech niche

Percentile among the other 352 software and tech listings here, each seller counted once for size.

Size79th
smallestlargest
Check the Course Score
88B+Strong

Ahead of 88% of the 13,589 Skool communities we track, including ones without a page here, on the measures below, each read from a figure Home Lab Explorers published itself.

  • Size 53% of the scoreahead of 88%
  • Growth 27% of the scoreahead of 52%
  • Track record 20% of the scoreahead of 61%

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  • Top 25% by size in software and tech. Measured by Check the Course.Top 25% by size in software and tech. Measured by Check the Course.
  • Listed every week since September 2026. Measured by Check the Course.Listed every week since September 2026. Measured by Check the Course.

    Present in every one of the 9 weeks recorded since September 2026, with no week missing.

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Evidence and signals

Listed on 1,718 members.

Evidence: measured.

Following elsewhere
110,000 at its largest110,000 on YouTube. Followers on another platform, not members here.
First recorded
7 September 2026our first reading, not its launch
Elsewhere
WebsiteYouTube

Tracked over time

Member change
+2+0.1%over 3 days+26+1.5%over 28 days
Price change
No price read yet

20 observations over 56 days.

Member count
1,6701,6801,6901,7001,7101,7187 Sept 20262 Nov 2026change

Observation log

Observation log
ObservedMembersChangePriceCeiling / month
2 Nov 20261,718+2Not recordedNot calculated
30 Oct 20261,716+1Not recordedNot calculated
29 Oct 20261,715+5Not recordedNot calculated
26 Oct 20261,710+2Not recordedNot calculated
25 Oct 20261,708+1Not recordedNot calculated
24 Oct 20261,707-1Not recordedNot calculated
22 Oct 20261,708+6Not recordedNot calculated
19 Oct 20261,702+4Not recordedNot calculated
15 Oct 20261,6980Not recordedNot calculated
14 Oct 20261,698+5Not recordedNot calculated
11 Oct 20261,693-1Not recordedNot calculated
7 Oct 20261,694+2Not recordedNot calculated
5 Oct 20261,692-1Not recordedNot calculated
3 Oct 20261,693-1Not recordedNot calculated
3 Oct 20261,694+1Not recordedNot calculated
1 Oct 20261,693+1Not recordedNot calculated
30 Sept 20261,692+10Not recordedNot calculated
21 Sept 20261,6820Not recordedNot calculated
20 Sept 20261,682+17Not recordedNot calculated
7 Sept 20261,665Not recordedNot calculated
Average per week, last 28 days5 Oct 2026 to 2 Nov 2026+7
Average per week, since first reading7 Sept 2026 to 2 Nov 2026+7

Course content readings

Course content readings
ObservedPostsModulesCourses
30 Sept 2026699+3977
8 Sept 202666077
Added per week8 Sept 2026 to 30 Sept 2026+1300

Common questions about Home Lab Explorers

What is Home Lab Explorers?
Home Lab Explorers is a Skool community about building and running home labs, covering self-hosting, Docker, Kubernetes, DevOps and virtualization. Brandon Lee set up the group in April 2025 and announced it on Virtualization Howto, Lee's own site.
How much does Home Lab Explorers cost?
None of our readings of Home Lab Explorers' Skool listing has found a price, so none is shown here, and it is not counted as free.
How many members does Home Lab Explorers have?
Home Lab Explorers lists 1,718 members, read 2 Nov 2026.
How has Home Lab Explorers' membership changed?
From 1,665 members on 7 Sept 2026, our first reading, to 1,718 on 2 Nov 2026: up 53, or 3%.
How does Home Lab Explorers compare with other software and tech communities?
The niche median is 595 members. Pricing benchmarks by niche.
What do you get inside Home Lab Explorers?
Home Lab Explorers publishes 7 course modules, 7 courses, 699 posts, 2 admins. Communities with the most course content.

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