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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
Why?
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
How are you finding the AooStar R7? I have had my eye on it for a while but not much talk about it outside of YouTube reviews
- 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
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”
Beautiful. 🫠
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+
You play games on that server don’t you. 😁
I have a Kasm setup with blender and CAD tools, I use the GPU for transcoding video in Immich and Jellyfin, and for facial recognition in Immich. I also have a CUDA dev environment on there as a playground.
I upgraded my gaming PC to an AMD 7900 XTX, so I can finally be rid of Nvidia and their gaming and wayland driver issues on Linux.
Does Immich require a GPU or can it do facial recognition on CPU alone?
It can work on CPU alone, but allows for GPU hardware acceleration.
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 :)
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.
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
30 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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- 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
Jesus, you can run more than one piece of software on each bit of hardware…
Why spread out across 12-13 machines? Seems like a huge waste of power, and a whole bunch of extra to maintain.
You’re probably right. I mean. I need most of the network devices, and I didn’t list everything I am running on each, just big things. I do need to consolidate some if them though. Its been a trip and has made me a better IT though.
- Old Gaming Rig - Proxmox
