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Original Title: My wife gave me the look when RunLobster paged me at dinner. That is when I split my homelab into fun and production.My wife gave me the look when RunLobster paged me at dinner. That is when I split my homelab into fun and production.

I run a homelab. Proxmox cluster, 3 nodes, too many containers. You know the setup.

Added an OpenClaw agent to the stack because why not. Connected it to Stripe and Slack for some business automation I wanted to try. Worked great.

Then I started relying on it. Morning briefings. Client reports. Stuff that actually matters if it breaks.

First page at 3am was a disk issue. Fine, I signed up for this. Second page was a memory leak during a long running task. Annoying but I fixed it.

Third page was at dinner. My wife was mid sentence. My phone buzzed. She gave me the look. If you homelab, you know the look.

That weekend I split everything. Business critical stuff moved to RunLobster managed hosting. My homelab kept all the fun stuff. Local LLMs, experimental MCP servers, weird projects nobody depends on.

The split is the best decision I made. I still tinker every weekend. I just stopped getting paged for it.

For the homelabbers who also run businesses on their gear: where do you draw the line between lab and production?