I know of people whose home-lab is better equipped than the test/lab equipment many of my employers were providing me with. 

From such people I would expect [great questions](http://meta.serverfault.com/a/3609/37681)  that are [on-topic for ServerFault](http://serverfault.com/help/on-topic), questions that show they did **research**, found and **read the vendor documentation** and/or **tried a solution** before asking the internet for help. 

That they encountered the problem in their home lab would be completely irrelevant to the problem at hand. 

I think we should and already do welcome such questions and answer them.

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Many other home-lab questions are more from power users and enthousiasts. 

Often their problems are specific to and possibly even ***caused by the fact that they are in their home-lab*** or their ***attempts to engineer around typical home-lab limitations***: 

- Their internet access will be from a consumer ISP, with limitations and restrictions such as; 

  - no fixed IP-addresses
  - prohibits running servers and blocks for example
     - SMTP and ports 25 as a spam prevention measure
     - ports 80 and 443 for HTTP(S)
     - VPN protocols 
  - their ISP provided modem/router is limited with regards  to what the end-user can configure, monitor and/or troubleshoot 

- their home-lab equipment is often not fit for purpose:

  - too light weight like the (early generation) Raspberry Pi 
  - not suitable/certified for their intended purpose (attempt to run VMWare ESXi on an old laptop) 
  - was *"enterprise grade"* back in the day, but was in reality salvaged from the recycling bin after it reached EOL many moons ago
  - their home networking is broken because they don't have internal DNS and/or reverse DNS records, they insist on using the mDNS `.local` TLD rather than their own registered domain

- etc. etc.   
  
For such question I vote to close, sometimes with the close reason to migrate if they belong on [SuperUser](https://superuser.com/help/on-topic) and at times I leave a helpful comment that their problem is of their own making.