A mess.

Pi4 with 2TB SSD running:

• Portainer
• Calibre
• qBittorrent
• Kodi

HDMI cable straight to the living room Smart TV (which is not connected to the internet).

Other devices access media (TV shows, movies, books, comics, audiobooks) using VLC DLNA. Except for e-readers which just use the Calibre web UI.

Main router is flashed with OpenWrt and running DNS adblocker. Ethernet running to 2nd router upstairs and to main PC. Small WiFi repeater with ethernet in the basement. It's not a huge house, but it does have old thick walls which are terrible for WiFi propogation.

Bad. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 hanging from a HDMI cable going up to a projector, then have a 2TB SSD hanging from the Raspberry Pi. I host Nextcloud and Transmission on my RPi. Use Kodi for viewing media through my projector.

I only use the highest of grade when it comes to hardware

Case: found in the trash

Motherboard: some random Asus AM3 board I got as a hand-me down.

CPU: AMD FX-8320E (8 core)

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 5x2tb hdds + 128gb SSD and a 32GB flash drive as a boot device

That's it... My entire "homelab"

1) DIY PC (running everything)

• MSI Z270-A PRO
• Intel G3930
• 16GB DDR4
• ATX PSU 550W
• 250GB SSD for OS
• 500GB SSD for data
• 12TB HDD for backup + media

2) Raspberry pi 4 4GB (running 2nd pihole instance)

looks like this and runs NetBSD

Services:

• OpenSSH

Internet:

• 1G fiber

Router:

• N100 with dual 2.5G nics

Lab:

• 3x N100 mini PCs as k8s control plane+ceph mon/mds/mgr
• 4x Aoostar R7 "NAS" systems (5700u/32G ram/20T rust/2T sata SSD/4T nvme) as ceph OSDs/k8s workers

Network:

• Hodge podge of switches I shouldn't trust nearly as much as I do
• 3x 8 port 2.5G switches (1 with poe for APs)
• 1x 24 port 1G switch
• 2x omada APs

Software:

• All the standard stuff for media archival purposes
• Ceph for storage (using some manual tiering in cephfs)
• K8s for container orchestration (deployed via k0sctl)
• A handful of cloud-hypervisor VMs
• Most of the lab managed by some tooling I've written in go
• Alpine Linux for everything

All under 120w power usage

I have 5 servers in total. All except the iMac are running Alpine Linux.

Internet

Ziply fiber 100mb small business internet. 2 Asus AX82U Routers running in AiMesh.

Rack

Raising electronics 27U rack

N3050 Nuc's

One is running mailcow, dnsmasq, unbound and the other is mostly idle.

iMac

The iMac is setup by my 3d printers. I use it to do slicing and I run BlueBubbles on it for texting from Linux systems.

Family Server

Hardware

• I7-7820x
• Rosewill rackmount case
• Corsair water cooler
• 2 4tb drives
• 2 240gb ssd
• Gigabyte motherboard

Mostly doing nothing, currently using it to mine Monero.

Main Cow Server

Hardware

• R7-3900XT
• Rosewill rackmount case
• 3 18tb drives
• 2 1tb nvme
• Gigabyte motherboard

Services

• ZFS 36TB Pool
• Secondary DNS Server
• NFS (nas)
• Samba (nas)
• Libvirtd (virtual macines)
• forgejo (git forge)
• radicale (caldav/carddav)
• nut (network ups tools)
• caddy (web server)
• turnserver
• minetest server (open source blockgame)
• miniflux (rss)
• freshrss (rss)
• akkoma (fedi)
• conduit (matrix server)
• syncthing (file syncing)
• prosody (xmpp)
• ergo (ircd)
• agate (gemini)
• chezdav (webdav server)
• podman (running immich, isso, peertube, vpnstack)
• immich (photo syncing)
• isso (comments on my website)
• matrix2051 (matrix to irc bridge)
• peertube (federated youtube alternative)
• soju (irc bouncer)
• xmrig (Monero mining)
• rss2email
• vpnstack
  • gluetun
  • qbittorrent
  • prowlarr
  • sockd
  • sabnzbd

• An HP ML350p w/ 2x HT 8 core xeons (forget the model number) and 256GB DDR3 running Ubuntu and K3s as the primary application host
• A pair of Raspberry Pi's (one 3, one 4) as anycast DNS resolvers
• A random minipc I got for free from work running VyOS as by border router
• A Brocade ICX 6610-48p as core switch

Hardware is total overkill. Software wise everything is running in containers, deployed into kubernetes using helmfile, Jenkins and gitea

• Pico psu
• Asrock n100m
• Eaton3S mini UPS
• 250gb OS Sata SSD
• 4x sata 4t SSD's
• Pcie sata splitter

All in a small PC Case

sever is running YunoHost

At home - Networking

• 10Gbps internet via Sonic, a local ISP in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's only $40/month.
• TP-Link Omada ER8411 10Gbps router
• MikroTik CRS312-4C+8XG-RM 12-port 10Gbps switch
• 2 x TP-Link Omada EAP670 access points with 2.5Gbps PoE injectors
• TP-Link TL-SG1218MPE 16-port 1Gbps PoE switch for security cameras (3 x Dahua outdoor cams and 2 x Amcrest indoor cams). All cameras are on a separate VLAN that has no internet access.
• SLZB-06 PoE Zigbee coordinator for home automation - all my light switches are Inovelli Blue Zigbee smart switches, plus I have a bunch of smart plugs. Aqara temperature sensors, buttons, door/window sensors, etc.

Home server:

• Intel Core i5-13500
• Asus PRO WS W680M-ACE SE mATX motherboard
• 64GB server DDR5 ECC RAM
• 2 x 2TB Solidigm P44 Pro NVMe SSDs in ZFS mirror
• 2 x 20TB Seagate Exos X20 in ZFS mirror for data storage
• 14TB WD Purple Pro for security camera footage. Alerts SFTP'd to offsite server for secondary storage
• Running Unraid, a bunch of Docker containers, a Windows Server 2022 VM for Blue Iris, and an LXC container for a Bo gbackup server.

For things that need 100% reliability like emails, web hosting, DNS hosting, etc, I have a few VPSes "in the cloud". The one for my emails is an AMD EPYC, 16GB RAM, 100GB NVMe space, 10Gbps connection for $60/year at GreenCloudVPS in San Jose, and I have similar ones at HostHatch (but with 40Gbps instead of 10Gbps) in Los Angeles.

I've got a bunch of other VPSes, mostly for https://dnstools.ws/ which is an open-source project I run. It lets you perform DNS lookup, pings, traceroutes, etc from nearly 30 locations around the world. Many of those are sponsored which means the company provides them for cheap/free in exchange for a backlink.

This Lemmy server is on another GreenCloudVPS system - their ninth birthday special which has 9GB RAM and 99GB NVMe disk space for $99 every three years ($33/year).

https://pixelfed.social/p/thejevans/664709222708438068

EDIT:

Server:

• AMD 5900x
• 64GB RAM
• 2x10TB HDD
• RTX 3080
• LSI-9208i HBA
• 2x SFP+ NIC
• 2TB NVMe boot drive

Proxmox hypervisor:

• TrueNAS VM (HBA PCIe passthrough)
• HomeAssistant VM
• Debian 12 LXC as SSH entrypoint and Ansible controller
• Debian 12 VM with Ansible controlled docker containers
• Debian 12 VM (GPU PCIe passthrough) with Jellyfin and other services that use GPU
• Debian 12 VM for other docker stuff not yet controlled by Ansible and not needing GPU

Router: N6005 fanless mini PC, 2.5Gbit NICs, pfsense

Switch Mikrotik CRS 8-port 2.5Gbit, 2-port SFP+

A 13-year-old former gaming computer, with 30TB storage in raid6 that runs *arrs, sabnzbd, and plex. Everything managed by k3s except plex.

Also, 3-node digital ocean k8s cluster which runs services that don't need direct access to the 30TB of storage, such as: grocy, jackett, nextcloud, a SOLID server, and soon a lemmy instance :)

• Server - Desktop Tower

  • Build - Intel server board & CPU based on old serverbuild naskiller guide
    • OS on SSD
    • ZFS ON 8 6TB DRIVES, YIELDING ~36TB of storage, recoverable with up to two failed drives
  • Runs (via docker)
    • Navidrome (webui used daily @ work, dsub on phone, feishin on desktop)
    • Jellyfin (used almost exclusively locally on my TV, occasionally to watch with friends on web)
    • Nextcloud (used occasionally, mostly backs up password files, etc or to share. Thinking about replacing.)
    • QBitTorrent with glutun VPN
    • Audiobookshelf - used frequently for audiobooks. Occasionally for podcasts. Often more convenient to use antennapod/pocket casts on phone for active podcasts)
    • Kavitas - used seldom. Thinking about stopping. I like using obps on my rooted kindle to access my library.
    • Changedetection.io -watch some sites for new products, etc
    • Kiwix (local wikipedia copy I use shortcuts in FF locally to search for things)
    • Homepage (local links I use on local machines to my services)

• Raspberry pi

  • Adguard home & unbound - block most garbage for any traffic from my home

Thoughts - I'm considering downsizing. I don't really need all that much space, and it can be a headache at times. With drive replacement costs on top of power (~$320 a year) I consider either going to a vps or downsizing to what could run on a small compute like the n100 or a raspberry pi5, etc.

I have a Lenovo TS140 in the laundry room, i3-4330, 16GB, 2TB of SSD running arch.

In docker I am running:

Plex, Wire guard, Qbittorrent, Pihole, my discord bot, nginx, and Teslamate.

Works great, I'm probably going to swap my gaming rig in (5800x + 3080 12GB) with more RAM to host some AI stuff and the same services.

It's a work in progress, but https://wiki.gardiol.org (which is OFC self-hosted)

Anyway, beefy HP laptop with 32gb ram and Xeon CPU to run all services. 3 RAID-1 (Linux sw raid) usb3 volumes to host all services and data.

Two isp's: Vodafone FVA 5G (data capped) for general navigation and Fastweb FTTC (low speed but uncapped) for backup access and torrent/Usenet downloads.

Gentoo Linux all the way and podman, but as much limited as possible: only immich (that's impossible to host on bare metal due to devs questionable choices).

Services: WebDAV/webcal/etc wiki, more stuff, arrs, immich, podfetch, and a few more.

All behind nginx reverse proxy.

99% bare metal.

Self developed simple dashboard

External access via ssh tunnels to vps

https://blog.krafting.net/my-first-server-rack/

For a few weeks now, it's been looking like this! (At the bottom there is a complete picture)

Plus a Orange Pi 3 as a DNS/Reverse Proxy server

i got the random Dell SFF optiplex with 16gb of upgraded ram and a i5-4690 sitting at the girlfriend's house because she's the only one with an ISP that still allows public ip's.
It runs Minecraft.

at home i have my old 9yo retired gaming desktop doing seedbox work and mostly just running BOINC to donate compute power to science... and also keep my feet warm lol

yeah. that's it. i really don't do shit even though i totally could.

An old computer running on the top of a shelf that whenever I need to work with a display I have to bring it back down to the floor and borrow a VGA cable from another because the HDMI port is broken.

Oh and it occasionally disconnects itself from the internet.

• Old Gaming Rig - Proxmox
  • Nextcloud, Immich, Grafana on VMs
• Old HP ProDesk - FreeIPA
• NAS - TrueNAS Scale
• Couple Laptops - Docker Stuff
  • Wireguard, SearXNG, Nginx
• Raspberry Pi 4 - Home Assistant
• Rasberry Pi 3A+ - ntfy Docker
• Very Old Dell - NTP Server
• Qotom PC - OPNsense
• Network Devices - OpenWRT
  • Zyxel Wireless APs (3)
  • Netgear R7000 (2)
  • Zyxel 24 and 8 port Switches
• Gaming Rig - Windows 11 for now
  • Playnite, Sunshine, Jellyfin
• Another HP ProDesk hopefully running an email server soon
• UPS

Edit: Formatting

Bit of a mess right now . Amd ryzen 5800x with 6800xt , yr gigs of ram. Running Ubuntu 22 . Also have a ps3 and ps4 set up to the main monitor. A second work computer under my desk with both PC's hooked up with a KVM so seamlessly switch between work and gaming.

A single nuc with I dunno what

Main site:

• 5950X on a GA-AB350-Gaming 3
• 64GB
• 1TB NVMe mirrored
• 24TB RAIDz1, using external USB 3 disks
• Ubuntu LTS
• 700Mbps uplink
• OpenWrt on Pi 4 router
• Home Assistant Yellow

Off site:

• ThinkCentre 715q
• 2400GE
• 8GB
• 256GB NVMe
• 24TB RAIDz1, using external USB 3 disks
• Ubuntu LTS
• 30Mbps uplink
• OpenWrt on Pi 4 router

Syncthing replicates data between the two. ZFS auto snapshots prevent accidental or malicious data loss at each site. Various services are running on both machines. Plex, Wiki.js, OpenProject, etc. Most are run in docker, managed via systemd. The main machine is also used as a workstation as well as games. The storage arrays are ghetto special - USB 3 external disks, some WD Elements, some Seagate in enclosures. I even used to have a 1T, a 3T and a 4T disk in an LVM volume pretending to be an 8T disk in one of the ZFS pools. The next time I have to expand the storage I'll use second hand disks. The 5950X isn't boosting as high as it should be able to on a chipset with PB2, but I got all those cores on a B350 board. 😆 Config management is done with SaltStack.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AP	WiFi Access Point
CGNAT	Carrier-Grade NAT
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HA	Home Assistant automation software
~	High Availability
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS	HTTP over SSL
IP	Internet Protocol
LTS	Long Term Support software version
LVM	(Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NAT	Network Address Translation
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
NVMe	Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PSU	Power Supply Unit
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex	Brand of media server package
PoE	Power over Ethernet
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SAN	Storage Area Network
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC	Single-Board Computer
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN	Virtual Private Network
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
Zigbee	Wireless mesh network for low-power devices
k8s	Kubernetes container management package
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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30 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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ThinkPad T450s (my old laptop)

OS: Arch Linux DE: Plasma

Services: Arr stack for gluetun, sonarr, radar and jackets Jellyfin for videos Gonic for audio

All 3 of them are run using docker compose

NAS with Truenas, built myself:

• Shared storage
• Backups
• Downloaders

And the following in a VM with docker compose:

• TubeArchivist

Separate K8s cluster with Single control pane (2nd hand old small form-factor HP stuff) and 3 Nodes to run more resource intensive stuff that doesn't need to be close to the data source:

• *ARR

HomeAssistant in another 2nd hand HP small form factor box

Like a fucked up ACL trying to do a kind of least-priviledged filesystem knowing absolutely nothing.

And 2 NUCs.

Proxmox VE on a machine that I got almost for free. Intel i3-4160, 10GB RAM, 240GB SSD for the OS, and a non-redundant 1T HDD for storage. The only things I paid for are a second NIC and an 8GB RAM stick.

PVE is running a pfSense VM, and a bunch of Debian containers:

• Samba
• Jellyfin (still setting it up)
• Twingate Connector

All internet traffic goes through the pfSense VM. Unfortunately the ISP has put me behind CGNAT and disabled bridge mode, so my internet-facing things (mostly Wireguard and SSH) are pretty much crippled. Right now my best no-cost option is to use Twingate, but I don't trust it to handle anything other than SSH.

Western Digital My Cloud EX2 (Original) for storage

Raspberry Pi 5 for Home Assistant, Navidrome, Jellyfin, Kavita, Immich, Paperless and eventually NextCloud. Though it's being a bastard and won't run right now.

I need to get a Nano Pi to run OPNSense and Pi-Hole and I'll be happy.

PA-220 fw for internet access. An old workhorse, Synology DS1812+, for filesharing. A mac mini with Ubuntu running Plex and Roon also hosting Dashy in docker. A Hwg-ste to measure temp in my cabinet. I host a RIPE probe. An RPI4 running Zabbix. My next project is moving from PA-220 to something in the 400 series (probably 415) so I can upgrade to newer PANOS.

Not sure if I'm late on the draw here, but:

Debian 12 "Bookworm" Ancient 2007 Quad Core Intel Q6600 ASUS P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard 8 GB RAM 64GB SSD for the OS and a few applications 6x2TB Laptop HDDs in RAID 5 - scavenged from electronics scrap All wrapped up in a spare full tower I had from an old build

For now, the few services I have running are local network only. They are simply a few Docker containers running PiHole and Portainer. The RAID array is set up as a network share via SMB for my various personal devices to dump files to.

I am very new to the whole self-hosted thing and enjoying learning. Really, new to Linux, servers, networking, etc. Would love to hear some recommendations on what services I should look into, resources for learning more, critiques, etc. So far, browsing topics on here has been pretty helpful.

• Ryzen 2700X on a gigabyte B450i

• Arc A380

• 2 mirrored 4TB HDDs and 1 12 TB HDD, luks encrypted and on 2 zpools (I have an "unsafe" mount path for data on a single drive like media)

• removable flash drive with boot partition and main SSD keyfile

-Zwave dongle

That's it.

I can run everything I need to on it and my home internet is only 100/30 still because I don't live in a city, so 2.5gig networking isn't worth the cost. a380 does all of the hardware transcoding I need at a fairly low power. It isn't as good as just getting a newer NUC, but it was cheaper and a fun project.

Also doing a full renovation, so KNX will be connected for home assistant to control my lights and things and my smart home stuff will probably balloon.

Currently I have a pi4b running Home Assistant, Adguard, influx db, Maria db, Grafana, node red...

I have a pi3b running my main Adguard and Raspotify.

My main Pi can't handle Adguard and HA together, keeps crashing. So I just bought a Dell Optiplex 7050 mini to be an actual home server instead of having everything running as Home Assistant add-ons.

Planning on using it for Arr, Plex, HA, anything else I can think of, with my Pis being my Adguard and Raspotify instances and maybe get some Bluetooth tracking going in the house while I'm at it.

Might run a little Minecraft server for the kids too

I have a pi5 running everything like a pihole and my lemmy instance

N100 that just got built today with only Ubuntu and portainer installed. I still gotta migrate what I had in my main PC, which was emby, sonarr, bazarr, qbittorrent and prowlarr. It'll be...fun

Power

• 2x feeds into the rack (same circuit but we'll work on that)
• Eaton 2000VA double conversion UPS on Feed A
• APC 1500VA line interactive UPS on Feed B (bypassed, replacing it with another double conversion 2kVA eventually)

Network

• 2x Dell N2048P, stacked (potentially getting replaced with 2x stacked Cisco 9300)
• FortiGate firewall
• 1000/50 FTTP primary Internet link
• 4G backup Internet link using a different Telco (the dream is to replace this with Starlink)

Storage

• Synology 4-bay NAS with 4x4TB in RAID-10 (for overflow storage from Virtual SAN cluster)
• HP MSL2024 8GB Fiber Channel LTO5 Tape autoloader for off-site backup

Compute

• Dell R520 running VMware ESX for Production (2x Xeon E5-2450L, 80GB DDR3, 4x500GB SSD RAID-10 for Virtual SAN, 1x10TB SATA "scratch" disk, 2x10G fibre storage NICs, 2x1G copper NICs for VM traffic)
• Dell R330 running VMware ESX for backups and DR (1x Xeon E3-1270v5, 32GB DDR4, 2x512GB SSD RAID-1, 2x4TB HDD RAID-1, 8G FC card for tape library)

A second prod host will join the R520 soon to add some redundancy and mirror the Virtual SAN.

All VMs are backed up and kept in an encrypted on-site data store for at least 4 weeks. They're duplicated to tape (encrypted) once a month and taken off site. Those are kept for 1 year minimum. Cloud backup storage will never replace tape in my setup.

Services

As far as "public facing" goes, the list is very short:

• Bludit
• Lemmy
• Mailcow
• Thelounge

Though I do run around 30-40 services all up on this setup (not including actual non-prod lab things that are on other servers or various SBCs around the place).

If I had unlimited free electricity and no functioning ears I'd be using my Cisco UCS chassis and Nexus 5K switch/fabric extenders. But it just isn't meant to be (for now, haha).

I have a 10 year old CPU running Intel i3 (don't know what generation) with 12GB of ram, few HDSs (8TB, 2TB and 1TB) , SSD(128GB) for Debian.

The motherboard has a VGA and I don't have any VGA display with me. So if anything goes wrong at reboot, I mostly do guesswork and resolve it.

The PSU fan is whining and hanging on to its life.

I am an atheist , but I pray to God for my PSUs life.

Self built Proxmox server (5600G/64gb ram/1x2tb nvme+4x4tb hdd) with 2 nics running litrally everything. List of services I run is long and Im too lazy to type them.