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HomeLab for self hosting

What started as decade old Synology NAS has become an overpowered Docker box to host various services (including this website!).

HomeLab in rack

Specs

Unfortunately I had to resort to desktop parts given that I work a minimum wage job, but Theadripper coming soon!

  • Mirrored 20TB HDDs

    Will RAID if I get more

  • Ryzen 7 7700X

    X3D out of price range

  • 128Gb DDR5 6000

    ZFS cache is very memory hungry and so is Minecraft hosting (until the Rust impl gets finished)

  • Unremarkable MOBO, PSU, and cooling HomeLab interior

Services

  • Minecraft hosting
    • Modded and vanilla
  • SMB shares
    • For local storage
  • Frigate
    • NVR for security cameras and Image recognition
  • Home Assistant
    • For controlling lights, viewing cameras, checking energy usage and production
  • Nextcloud
    • Basically Google Drive but self-hosted and not google
  • Plex
    • Self-hosted media library for dubiously procured movie MP4s
  • VaultWarden
    • Self-hosted BitWarden provider written (by someone else) in rust
  • WG-Easy
    • Wiregaurd VPN host
  • This website
  • Other random stuff like a Postgres server for dev stuff