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.

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

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”

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

• 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

• 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

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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).

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 :)

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.

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.

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