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Only use jellyfin. Have a list of things want to update... but it works for now.
Yes that is a laptop usb cooler used as supplemental placebo cooling. Also a pc fan I have propped up against the hard drive feeding into the pi.
Can't recall last time used the ps4 or switch. But they're there
Soon to be neater, with the official memory fan, more drive caddys, and an extra DHCP/DNS server.
Below, a picture of my small rack, which is located in my home office. Due to the selected components, it is virtually silent and still bobs along at only 26 - 28° C.
The hardware is divided into two Proxmox clusters. The first consists of the three Lenovo M920qs shown here and is home to my publicly accessible services and VMs, the second consists of the two Beelink EQ12s and is responsible for the internal services or those accessible via VPN.
Not the greatest or best Homelab, but for me, it fulfils all my needs and at the same time keeps the electricity costs down to an unimaginable level.
I host the following services on the public Internet:
Internally, I also provide the following services:
Any chance on getting more info about the hardware specifics? From the sounds and looks of it this is almost exactly the scale of what I’d like and running pretty much the same things I’m thinking interested in.
You’re very welcome! I’ve provided a detailed overview of my entire setup on my blog, and following your request, I’ve updated it to reflect the latest changes.
You can check out the post here: https://blog.klein.ruhr/my-homelab/
This is a custom built mini PC, with a mini-ITX motherboard and an Intel N100 CPU. It gets powered by a power supply that I got from an old computer. Also, it needs no active cooling, just a heatsink. It almost never gets above 60°C.
(and yes, it has no case).
In it I run:
Top to Bottom:
Bottom area:
The access to the crawlspace isn't great so the CrapRack ^tm^ had to be assembled in the crawlspace.
So nobody is going to ask about the rotary phone?
It's a GPO 706, which is a classic British bakelite phone from the '60s. I have it hooked up to a SIP trunk through an OBi 100. Right now it can receive calls but not make them because I haven't gotten around to sorting out a pulse-to-tone dialing converter yet.
I feel like this should be a quarterly post. Really liking all these setups.
The range of sofistication in this thread is actually kind of breathtaking
Comment 1: a small raspberry pi
Comment 2: full rack with tens of thousands worth of hardware
I love it. I've seen shit that has literally had my mouth agape to the piles on the floor like little gremlins ater my own heart.
I just got 10 Gbit internet last week so I had a chance to tidy everything up. The ThinkCentre is the 10 Gbit router, the Synology actually hosts everything.
Also finally labeled all the mystery cables. Also replaced the proprietary 20V/12V bricks for the ThinkCentre and 10G Fiber ONU with USB-C adapter cables to keep things tidier.
mostly runs jellyfin for a group of about 30 users (2 or 3 on at most times). runs alpine on bare bones. the box was originally filled with foam cutouts from storing iPads in a school district I worked at. I figure it's 20tbs of storage and 16gb ecc is a welcome upgrade. it stays cool cause I cutout half the side and put an AC fan in there. future upgrades involve the Nvidia k40 card I have, but I need to design an active cooling system for it before it can be installed as that thing gets HOT
The small board you can see is a pi hole
I do have more tech elsewhere but this pile is comically ugly
From top to bottom:
I’m planning to move my Lemmy instance to its own 1.5U.
The whole setup uses around 80-100 watts.
The disks are the most uggo part. They’re a bunch of old disks of varying sizes with a RAID+LVM setup to make the most use of them while still being redundant.
lsblk output of the whole thing
saiko@vineta ~ % lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /Volumes/Boot
└─sda2 8:2 0 111.3G 0 part /nix/store
/
sdb 8:16 1 372.6G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 1 372.6G 0 part
└─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5
└─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
sdc 8:32 1 465.8G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 372.6G 0 part
│ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
└─sdc2 8:34 1 93.1G 0 part
└─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5
└─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
sdd 8:48 1 4.5T 0 disk
├─sdd1 8:49 1 372.6G 0 part
│ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
├─sdd2 8:50 1 93.1G 0 part
│ └─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
├─sdd3 8:51 1 465.8G 0 part
│ └─md3 9:3 0 931.3G 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
└─sdd4 8:52 1 3.6T 0 part
└─md4 9:4 0 3.6T 0 raid1
└─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
sde 8:64 1 7.3T 0 disk
├─sde1 8:65 1 372.6G 0 part
│ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
├─sde2 8:66 1 93.1G 0 part
│ └─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
├─sde3 8:67 1 465.8G 0 part
│ └─md3 9:3 0 931.3G 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
└─sde4 8:68 1 3.6T 0 part
└─md4 9:4 0 3.6T 0 raid1
└─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
sdf 8:80 1 931.5G 0 disk
├─sdf1 8:81 1 372.6G 0 part
│ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
├─sdf2 8:82 1 93.1G 0 part
│ └─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5
│ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
└─sdf3 8:83 1 465.8G 0 part
└─md3 9:3 0 931.3G 0 raid5
└─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
Can't but join in the fun. Meet the Egg Mini. Does all sorts of humble servitude, but the coolest thing is a webserver only accessible via Wireguard through HAproxy running on a Digital Ocean droplet.
I’m in the middle of moving so everything is packed up. But this was the rack before we moved.
Networking, 3D printer, black and white laser printer and a color laser printer, several servers.
I had home assistant, Plex, Minecraft server, 7 days to die server, and many other services.
Servers are Ryzen 5950x and the other is a threadripper 24 core.
The other side of the rack was HDMI switchers and some game consoles.
Going to miss the 1gbps fiber internet, we now have Starlink.
The main server. Specs:
Server runs:
Bonus: I use Oracle Cloud server for:
My main server cabinet at my parents house. I have one old Synology for backups, one home built Xpenology for streaming and one small server with old gaming hardware for steam link, but its barely running anymore. Theres one HP server with 2x Xeon E5 and 128GB missing in the photo that I got for 100€ at an auction, which I use for occasional game server hosting.
At home I have this setup, my main synology NAS and a thinkcentre with an i7 and 16GB of ram for Minecraft and FiveM.
Damn, that's actually pretty sexy for a fresh-air rack How's the noise levels?
Some context shots. This is in my garage which is directly below my living room. Everything leads back here and the cat cable from the fibre ONT leads here from the other side of the garage also. I have 2 redundant gig links to a switch in the living room where it was weirdly easier to go outside the garage, up the outside wall and then back in to the house.
There is a rack mount standard desktop with a 4 port Intel NIC and an IT mode HBA, 6 spinning HDDs, an SSD and 2x NVME drives. This is my main Proxmox server running Opnsense and a whole host of other services, including email. On to of it I have a monitor, 3 external HDDs used for backups and another desktop I picked up cheap which runs as the Zoneminder CCTV box.
At the very top there is a cheap POE dumb switch that powers the CCTV camera and then a Netgear 24 port switch with VLANs configured for various networks - Main, IoT, VoIP, CCTV... I have the same switch up in the living room also.
At the very bottom almost invisible is a Belkin UPS and a strip adapter that has several smart plugs in which I use to power my backup drives. That way my backup drives are off, not just unmounted unless a backup is running. The aim was to avoid any attacker / system wide issue taking down the backup drives. I sleep a smidgen better at night for that.
Not pictured is an Odroid HC2 that lives upstairs and that I had hoped to rig up as a remote backup device, but I've never really got around to setting it up properly or putting anything other than a small capacity HDD in. It does run HomeAssistant though so that's pretty useful.
A bit more context
More guts showing the mess.
Lets just appreciate how damn lucky I was when I picked up this server rack. It doesn't fit with the carpet down, so had to peel that back. Millimetre perfect.
