Post your setup. no matter how uggo
from TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 14:42
https://lemmy.world/post/22129906

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

#selfhosted

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PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 14:54 next collapse

Wait so you have like rack mounted server but only run jellyfin? Am I missing something here ?

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 15:02 next collapse

I had the same thought - an entire 8U rack to hold a single raspberry pi with an external drive?

veeesix@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 15:22 next collapse

Come on guys, that’s a whole 8TB.

Damage@feddit.it on 17 Nov 19:09 collapse

There’s no rules here

palebluethought@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 15:05 next collapse

There’s no rack mount server there. I see a UPS, switch (network and Nintendo varieties), PS4 and mini PC

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 15:23 collapse

My bad. I’m so dumb that I see a shelf UPS and I assume this is some advanced network shit. I have an old gaming pc and a mini pc as 2 nodes in my home network.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Nov 16:04 next collapse

Its a rack mounted rack without the server.

Anivia@feddit.org on 17 Nov 17:32 next collapse

Wait so you have like rack mounted server but only run jellyfin?

What would be wrong with that?

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 21:28 collapse

I considered it pretty heavy equipment for just a single service but that’s coming from my experience running like 8 vms on an old gaming pc and tearing my hair out over how janky it all looks (it works fantastically for me tho)

Anivia@feddit.org on 18 Nov 02:20 collapse

I guess it depends on your library size and how many users you are serving. My plex server has a library of over 110 TB and over 60 users, so to me a rack mount server for Jellyfin alone doesn’t sound overkill at all

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 02:45 collapse

Damn how does one amass 60 users? That’s a big ass family

Anivia@feddit.org on 18 Nov 06:05 collapse

About a third of it is friends of mine, the rest is family and extended family

PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 13:38 collapse

That’s awesome!

TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 17:55 collapse

This table rack was the most space savey option i could find. It looks less stable than it is. It is super minimal as far as the actual self hosting stuff goes.

Room to expand eventually.

OR3X@lemm.ee on 17 Nov 15:50 next collapse

<img alt="Image" src="https://i.imgur.com/hYG48LP.jpeg">

Runs Debian Bookworm

Hosting:

  • DNS server
  • DHCP server
  • web server (just some internal pages)
  • print server
  • file server (24TB RAID 5 managed with OMV)
  • immich
  • jellyfin

Probably some more stuff I’m forgetting. It’s basically my everything box.

DScratch@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 15:53 next collapse

Could I interest you in some diagonal bracing today?

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 15:54 next collapse

Not taking a picture, but here’s what I have:

  • Ryzen 1700 in a giant case sitting on my desk (desktop PC is on top of that in a mini-ITX case); 2x 8TB HDDs, connected to network over Wi-Fi; hope to cut the size significantly once one of our ITX boxes need an upgrade (both Ryzen 5600s)
  • Mikrotik router (5 port) and Ubiquiti AP sitting next to my bed; Mikrotik handles my local static DNS for my public services

Running:

  • Jellyfin, as well as Samba and some other NAS stuff
  • HomeAssistant (nothing monitored though, but I plan to add my Sensi thermostat soon)
  • Actual Budget
  • Nextcloud
  • Vaultwarden (currently unused, plan to switch soon)

I also have a VPS to get around CGNAT, and I have a Wireguard VPN configured so communication is encrypted.

Plans:

  • upgrade NAS to either a mini-ITX motherboard or a mini-PC w/ external USB-C enclosure
  • actually run Ethernet - have been putting off for years
  • configure my Sensi thermostat in HA and maybe get some other smart home crap
  • use Nextcloud more - want to get SO using the notes app so I can finally kill Google Notes for shared shopping lists
  • port my PF spreadsheet to LibreOffice and actually learn to use LO Calc (currently using Google Sheets); I use GoogleFinance func for stock quotes, so I need to replace that with some other workflow (mostly rebalancing investments)
  • replace our TV or at least have an alternative for Jellyfin - the config disappears whenever our TV WiFi screws up, which is like 2-3x/month; screw you LG…

So yeah, somewhat simple. My family likes Jellyfin, but I haven’t really gotten them on board with anything else.

Sabre363@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 15:57 next collapse

Nice trapezoid

variants@possumpat.io on 17 Nov 16:07 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://possumpat.io/pictrs/image/e57dfe84-f7b4-473c-be67-0ab023d9efa5.jpeg">

My 12u setup On top I have two pi’s; home assistant and pihole The ONT for fiber, hue bridge, and hdhomerun.

My dream machine pro
Patch panel
48 port switch i got from coworker
Patch panel
My unraid server
jbod
Battery UPS

jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 16:21 collapse

Ok, now this is just showing off. Patch cables all the exact required length and everything all nice and neat. I bet you check your backups regularly and do a monthly DR fail over test too.

…Kidding aside, your setup looks really good.

variants@possumpat.io on 17 Nov 16:43 collapse

Haha I need more Patch cables to get rid of those long ones. Also when I opened up the cabinet for this Pic I noticed the left fan isn’t dusty like the rest so it might be dead x_x

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 17 Nov 18:40 collapse

Where do you source your diagnostic dust?

variants@possumpat.io on 17 Nov 19:08 collapse

I contract that out to my dogs, they go out and source the finiest dusts for networking diagnostics

Twitches@lemm.ee on 17 Nov 16:19 next collapse

How do you like immich? Any thing you don’t like? Favorite features etc? I have a setup I built, but, immich looks very nice

cron@feddit.org on 17 Nov 16:25 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/60af317b-107f-463d-8cfc-1c36ba5b1cc2.jpeg">

Small, 10 inch rack, with some 3D printed rack mounts.

muppeth@scribe.disroot.org on 17 Nov 17:29 collapse

This is great. I have couple of those HP machines which are awesome but was just stacking them on my desk. 10 inch rack will be great for them. Need to do some hunting.

cron@feddit.org on 17 Nov 18:05 collapse

My HP has a 65 watt CPU built in, when it’s running at full load it is quite loud.

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 16:41 next collapse

A bit concerning that it is propped up on a night table and sitting right next to a doorway. There’s only two of us in the house but I would never place electronic equipment like that near a doorway where I myself could just knock it over (because I’ve done stuff like that in the past). Get it on the floor or on the opposite side of the room where no one including yourself can walk or move around near it.

[deleted] on 17 Nov 16:59 next collapse

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danielquinn@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 17:09 next collapse

Seven Raspberry Pi 4’s and one Pi Zero, mounted on some tile “shelves” inside some IKEA furniture.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/46682056-b207-46ff-b1a1-4501c94dcb9f.jpeg">

<img alt="Ho ho ho" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/02d0d048-deec-4063-8b7e-9277a9aa0119.jpeg">

Takahe@lemmy.nz on 17 Nov 17:45 next collapse

What do you do on that many pi’s that could not be done easier on 1 x86 box?

danielquinn@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 18:05 collapse

They’re fanless and low-power, which was the primary draw to going this route. I run a Kubernetes cluster on them, including a few personal websites (Nginx+Python+Django), PostgreSQL, Sonarr, Calibre, SSH (occasionally) and every once in a while, an OpenArena server :-)

Getting6409@lemm.ee on 17 Nov 18:16 collapse

I did a 4 node Pi4 kubernetes cluster for about 5 years. The learning experience was priceless. I think most notable was learning to do proper multiarch container builds to support arm and x86_64. That being said, about half a year ago I decided to try condensing it all into two n100 nuc-like clones and keep one pi as the controller. For me and my apps and use cases there was no going back. Performance gains were substantial and in this regard I think I was hobbling myself after the educational aspect plateaued.

danielquinn@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 18:48 collapse

Actually, as a web guy, I find the ARM architecture to be more than sufficient. Most of the stuff I build is memory heavy and CPU light, so the Pi is great for this stuff.

Auli@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 23:07 collapse

Except the Pi doesn’t have much memory.

danielquinn@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 23:21 collapse

Each Pi 4 has 8GB of RAM. With six devices, that’s 48GB to play with. More than enough for my needs.

qaz@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 20:44 collapse
Cenotaph@mander.xyz on 17 Nov 17:13 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/8f0dfee3-d1cd-4d1a-86bd-90e27afe96ac.jpeg">

Synology NAS running media server + live document editing server + seedbox. Plans to eventually build a proper server for it. Can’t wait until my setup looks like the rest of yours.

The alebrije on top protects from bad torrents (only linux isos :v) and viruses.

princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Nov 17:13 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/93fd2dc8-07a5-4951-ba42-8e2fe7e98c96.webp">

Rack server on a lack IKEA table.

denkdaetz@feddit.org on 18 Nov 16:32 collapse

Nice DJ controller you got there 🤓

BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 17:15 next collapse

Mines nothing special, i5 10400 with 16GB of RAM and a 1050ti for video encoding. System runs TrueNAS Scale for Plex and Immich and has 44TB of drives running through a Dell H310 PERC SAS card. I desperately need more storage but I’ve been lacking the funds for new drives, I’d also need a 5.25" drive bay converter to hold the 2 additional drives I need in this case since all the bays are full, and another SAS card since this one’s used up.

I’d like to move to Jellyfin but from what I’ve read it doesn’t do as well for streaming from outside the network compared to Plex and half the users of my server are outside my network. So it works for now.

Also have a Raspberry Pi 5 running PiHole

Also a buddy 3D printed a fan mount for the H310 to make sure it doesnt overheat when doing file transfers and I slapped a Noctua on it

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2549e731-a99f-452d-82bd-d394668b5c90.jpeg">

PunkiBas@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 18:17 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4aaca3c9-69c7-4801-8765-848c9646fc33.jpeg">

My little cluster

TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 18:19 next collapse

Got the same optiplex to eventually replace the pi.

Nice and clean.

ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org on 17 Nov 18:48 collapse

Very easy to find good deals (and parts) on these 1L business PCs!

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 19:00 next collapse

<img alt="Optiplex gang represent" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/4e909efb-a4d1-475f-ace6-9a34f34e3421.jpeg">

Optiplex gang represent

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 19 Nov 08:59 collapse

That’s so weird at first look on this picture I was like: “What’s O…P…D? 🤔” LOL

DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Nov 04:22 collapse

Cupboard + DiskStation + OptiPlex = Win <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/b6c8532b-a55c-4733-a062-fddf0baa498e.png">

Skunk@jlai.lu on 17 Nov 18:18 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/1905c7e2-31ed-4f98-80b5-624a214bafd5.jpeg">

A simple homemade NAS, mostly for hosting my Plex library, VPN+torrent and cloud.

The synology needs to be emptied, removed and sold.

The m2 Mac mini was hosting some docker like pihole and actual budget but those are now on another Mac mini used as a workstation, so this one will be sold as well.

burrito@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 18:56 collapse

How’s your experience with actual budget been? I’ve been considering it and am currently using YNAB.

Skunk@jlai.lu on 17 Nov 19:10 collapse

I made the switch from YNAB cause !fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world

I only had a small understanding problem at the beginning but then I quickly managed to replicate my YNAB (and import the data).

Now that I’m used to it I don’t see any problems and I like it. I believe you can try it locally without running the server version.

The lack of mobile app could be a downside but I don’t budget on my phone.

burrito@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 19:51 collapse

Okay, thank you. A lack of a mobile app isn’t a big deal as I don’t really use the YNAB mobile app to begin with since the browser version works so much better on a computer.

tychosmoose@lemm.ee on 17 Nov 18:20 next collapse

Here’s my messy-cabled 9u rack.

<img alt="Image" src="https://i.imgur.com/H9tLXwJ.jpeg">

It has:

  • Fiber gateway out of view on top of the rack.
  • Switch, which also powers 2 Ruckus APs and 2 other switches.
  • Mikrotik RB5009 router.
  • Raspberry Pi x3 all running Debian Bookworm. I have too many pis right now, running Home Assistant, LibreNMS, Log collection, and a read-only NUT server that orchestrates shutdowns and startups on power loss. I need to consolidate these.
  • 1L PCs. One is on Debian serving media and files. The other is a test server where I’m trying out Immich on openSUSE. I’m considering moving to that and rootless podman for services. To that end I have another of these 1L boxes on my desk trying other options (MicroOS, Fedora IoT, maybe others).
  • HDs. These are backup drives for the 1L server. I keep them powered off except when needed.
  • UPS and a managed, switched PDU.

Everything is set up for low energy consumption (~90w), remote admin, and recovery from power loss.

Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site on 17 Nov 18:22 next collapse

<img alt="front" src="https://lemmy.self-hosted.site/pictrs/image/be7c6ee5-e06a-466b-90ba-1966a67cc287.jpeg">

<img alt="back" src="https://lemmy.self-hosted.site/pictrs/image/81f6b3ac-b2a4-4771-932d-1e9d9de71bd6.jpeg">

TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip on 17 Nov 19:44 next collapse

That’s a nice setup. I am weirdly jealous of the sliding shelf. The CS350B is very nice as well.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 21:48 collapse

noice

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 17 Nov 18:36 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/02488a4a-9e96-4fdd-b053-84a3adc98628.jpeg">

Just a NAS for now. Plan to add PiHole at some point.

ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org on 17 Nov 18:46 next collapse

<img alt="some electronics on messy shelves" src="https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/e720660e-0c73-4010-9c36-db3f351e28b7.png">

Testing an image post from Voyager client…

I only own the gear marked A and B, which lives above the couch I call home.

A is my web services 24/7 Proxmox box, an Intel 8500T; 2 routers; an 8TB HDD; and a Back-UPS Pro so old its ethernet surge protection is rated for 100bT, with a brand new LFP battery in it. The UPS powers both A and B.

B is my personal Proxmox box, an AMD 5750GE, which I use for development and running desktop OSes which I remote into, plus a GL.iNet Slate AX router. These come with me if I stay someplace other than the couch (not pictured). That’s why they’re on different shelves. Also, there’s a USB wifi dongle w/antenna connected to B which I used when some stupid website demands I drop my VPN (all traffic from everything pictured is routed thru 24/7 private VPN endpoints, aka a $2/mo VPS or three).

vaionko@sopuli.xyz on 17 Nov 18:49 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/34aae6c7-d503-4244-81f2-442d8effbb32.webp"> An old HP laptop with Debian hosting Klipper and Home Assistant. Waiting for an OTG cable so I could replace the laptop with a phone for less power and heat

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 19:21 next collapse

Using phones with a continuous power supply might do nasty things to the battery.

Source: I finally figured out how to open a glass back phone with no tools.

TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip on 17 Nov 19:38 collapse

Heat, then suction?

On a related note, I solved the battery issue with my wall mounted Fire tablet (for an HA dashboard) by connecting the power supply to a smart plug and setting up an automation to only give it the juice for about 3 hours per day, spread throughout the day

masterofn001@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 19:57 next collapse

It still amazes me that the smartest phones aren’t yet smart enough to have direct power supply.

Like my 40 year old AM radio.

N0x0n@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 17:55 collapse

Because $$$ !

Cyber@feddit.uk on 17 Nov 20:01 collapse

I’ve done similar with an old Android tablet. Installed Fully Kiosk Browser to display the dashboard AND read the battery level - above 75%, switch off power…

But… automations only trigger when going past the threshold once, so if there’s a random issue where HA doesn’t see the battery drop below 10%, (had that happen a few times in the past), then I also have multiple triggers for 5% and 2%… to turn the power back on again 😉

TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip on 17 Nov 20:39 collapse

Yeah, the tablet runs Fully Kiosk and I tried the same thing with the battery percentage thing and ran into the same issue, so I just simplified and made the automation time-based.

The tablet also likes to freeze a few times a day, so I also created an automation that toggles the smart plug power whenever HA loses connection to the tablet for more than 5 seconds, then toggles back to the original state at the start of the automation, which corrects the problem. Until the next time. But hey! It was only $60, so it’s fine.

Cyber@feddit.uk on 19 Nov 15:28 collapse

Ah, good call on using the power to get the tablet to respond… I don’t have that problem (tablet freezing), but it does drop off the wifi sometimes.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 19 Nov 08:53 collapse

Wait I see EMT piping for that printer frame… Did you convert an Anet A8 to an “EMT-8” like I did!? :D

Just seemed like a neat coincidence!

The stock A8 was such a scary fire hazard lol.

vaionko@sopuli.xyz on 20 Nov 15:54 collapse

Yup you’re indeed seeing an EMT8 :D. This thing’s got a SKR mini e3 V3, E3D v6 clone and an E3D titan clone. I have a post about it in my profile.

I bet there are dozens of us EMT8 owners! Dozens!

bruhduh@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 18:52 next collapse

Install Linux on both ps4 and switch and selfhost something on them

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 17 Nov 19:19 next collapse

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qaz@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 20:35 collapse

What are those machines on the floor?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 17 Nov 21:15 collapse

The meat and potato’s of my homelab. It is just a Proxmox cluster hosting some things.

Most of it is pretty ordinary as I just have a bunch of Debian VMs hosting docker compose. Ansible for deployments and I am working on moving completely to NFS for storage.

The two notable things I have is a virtualized NAS running TrueNAS and a virtualized desktop running Linux Mint. The NAS has a pcie sata controller passed though with two SSDs and the desktop has a RX580 and the USB controller passed though. The tower seen in the back has both of those currently and what you can’t see is my monitor, keyboard and mouse.

Here are the services I’m running:

  • Jellyfin

    • For movies and live TV
  • Nextcloud

    • my files and the Nextcloud suite
  • Matrix

    • not really used much
  • my website (it is not much at the moment)

  • I’m using busybox http

  • Graphana and Influxdb

  • monitoring. I will eventually move to something else.

The hardware is the follows:

  • Dell precision tower with a i7-6700k and a standard ATX power supply

  • Lenovo think center with a i5-8500

  • HP whatever its called with a i5-8500

Also the router and my AP (not in picture) is running OpenWRT with vlans

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 22:52 collapse

what are you replacing grafana with?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:48 collapse
TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip on 17 Nov 19:32 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://belfry.rip/pictrs/image/0dd285f4-036a-4a3f-8293-85740369c033.png"> From top to bottom:

  • Patch panel (with artisinal, handmade cables)
  • TP-Link managed switch Shelf 1:
  • PFSense 4 port firewall
  • Lenovo m910q w/Proxmox (cluster node 1) running 2 VMs for docker hosting: Ubuntu for media stuff (arrs, navidrome, jellyfin, calibre, calibre-web, tubesync, syncthing) and Debian for other stuff (paperless-ngx, vikunja, vscodium, redlib, x-pipe webtop, fasten health, linkwarden, alexandrite), 1 Win 10 VM for the very few times I need to use windows, some Red Hat Academy student and instructor RHEL 9 VMs, and an OPNsense VM for testing Shelf 2:
  • HP Elitedesk G5 800 SFF w/Proxmox (cluster node 2) with an Nvidia GT 730 passed through to a Debian VM used primarily as a remote desktop via ThinLinc, but also runs a few docker containers (stirling pdf, willow application server, fileflows)
  • Shuttle DH110 w/Proxmox (cluster node 3) with 1 VM running Home Assistant OS with an NVME Coral TPU passed through as well as a zooz 800 long range zwave coordinator (the zigbee coordinator is ethernet and in a different room) and two LXCs with grafana and prometheus courtesy of tteck (RIP) Shelf 3:
  • WIP Fractal R5 server to replace the ancient Ubuntu file server to the left (outside the rack, sitting on the box of ethernet cable) that is primarily the home of my media drives (3 12 TB Ironwolf drives) and was my first homelab server. The new box will have a Tesla p4 and RX 580 GTX, i7-8700T and 64GB RAM in addition to the drives from the old server. I’ll be converting the Ubuntu drive from the old server into an image and will use it to create a Proxmox VM on the new server, with the same drives passed through. Bottom:
  • 2 Cyberpower CP1000 UPS with upgraded LiFePO4 batteries. The one on the left is only for servers and only exists to give the servers time to shut down cleanly when the power goes out. The one on the right is only for network devices (firewall, switch and the Ruckus R500 out of shot mounted higher in the closet)
51dusty@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 19:33 next collapse

was going through some old pictures and decided I’d post a retro setup. pretty sure I took this picture with my android g1…so 2008ish?

here is a pic of one of my first selfhost setups. I began selfhosting for music and have never stopped. this iteration was stuffed behind a bar that was built in to the basement at my old house

the old fashioned was custom built and was running some flavor of windows server. the one on the floor was the first Linux server I had run to do something useful…torrents and subsonic IIRC. I pieced that server together with random parts, mostly donated from old family PCs. two UPS units were on the bottom rack of that metro shelf to battery back the servers and the tomato router out of frame.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d37ce0bd-b682-4d7a-a9f3-d24def9359cb.jpeg">

pressanykeynow@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 23:10 next collapse

That monitor looks so sexy.

51dusty@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 01:49 collapse

oh, she was. found her several years earlier in a trash pile at an office building I was working at… with the protective plastic still stuck on the screen.

she met her doom against a concrete floor during a studio shuffle… sad day.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 19 Nov 09:01 collapse

Man this picture is such a vibe lol. Love it. :D

[deleted] on 17 Nov 20:12 next collapse

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qaz@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 20:19 next collapse

Old setup:

Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 that I bought refurbished for ~€130

  • i5-6500T (Passmark score 4792)
  • 8GB RAM
  • 512GB SATA SSD + 128GB SATA SSD (completely used for swap)
  • Buffalo DriveStation™ HD-WLU3 that I bought second hand for €10
  • 2 × 2TB SATA HDD’s in RAID 1
  • ~20W

<img alt="Old setup" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bacddbc3-d1fe-48bf-bcc5-125b12983eef.jpeg">

New setup:

Custom build

  • ASUS Prime N100I-D D4 (Passmark score 5501) (~€100)
  • 16GB RAM - Crucial CT16G4SFRA32A (€28)
  • 512GB SATA SSD
  • 4 × 4TB SATA HDD’s in RAID 5 using mdadm (€160)
  • M.2 NVME to SATA 6x (ASM1116 for C-states) (€17)
  • 17.8W

<img alt="New setup" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/96e2e86c-ed9c-4db5-a9cd-2cab2d2b138c.jpeg">

(Not the Proliant Microserver Gen8 on top, the device below)

The antennas are from a Sonoff Zigbee dongle and a bluetooth dongle for Home Assistant.

I’ve mostly focused on power usage, price, and reliability since I’m a student and don’t want to spend a month’s worth of income on a “home lab”.

It’s running the following:

  • Forgejo
  • Grafana
  • Home Assistant
  • Jellyfin
  • Kopia
  • Nginx-proxy-manager
  • Paperless NGX
  • Photoprism
  • Syncthing
  • TimescaleDB
  • Uptime-kuma
  • Vaultwarden: As backup
  • Watch Your LAN
  • Arr stack (currently disabled)
  • Homebox: Still up for testing, like it has been for the past couple months. It’s a great concept but the execution ain’t great (does anyone happen to know an alternative?)

It’s using about 10% CPU and is running below 40°. <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/336a398d-7132-4627-a7f5-6ccb5a5d9b8d.png">

QuantumDuck@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 21:08 collapse

I have three of those Proliant Microserver Gen8’s. Two of them are part of my Proxmox cluster, and the other one is waiting for me to install Proxmox on it.

qaz@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 21:29 collapse

I’m currently just using it for occasional backups (it has 12TB storage) since the power consumption (60W idle when in the BIOS) is just unreasonable.

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 21:10 next collapse

You people are such nerds. Wish I could self-host too.

Burghler@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 23:09 next collapse

You can get a setup going on whatever personal computer until you throw ~$150 on a mini PC.

Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 16:01 collapse

I know!. I watched a few videos but I’m affraid I lack some programming skills for now. Or it would requires that I have a few days off and be in great mood haha. I have a few computers that would probably work, what I would need is someone by my side to help me troubleshoot whatever wont work. You guys already made me switch to linux which I wouldnt even have considered a few years back lol. Super happy, but it’s always a challenge when something stops working. For example, after the last kernel update, I spent hours trying to get bluetooth to work again, and in the end buying a new adapter was the only thing that worked. But one day I will self-host too!

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 21:34 collapse

no need to be a programmer to do it!

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:43 collapse

Well you are here so that’s a start

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 17 Nov 21:11 next collapse

What I took from this post is that every living room / home theater setup needs a server rack instead of a HiFi rack. Dudnt matter what you thrown in it, it looks badass.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 21:31 next collapse

literally one these with loads of RAM and a wifi card, so i can fit all the shenanigans in one box

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7055725f-42da-43de-9d33-3c62156d9cfa.webp">

phase@lemmy.8th.world on 17 Nov 21:39 next collapse

I may need this now. Would you are the brand? A recommendation?

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 21:36 collapse

just got it from aliexpress. though any hardware or mini pc will do, really.

if you want something like this but branded, look into protectli, they make similar devices.

phase@lemmy.8th.world on 19 Nov 08:46 collapse

Asking for the brand was a way to say that I would like to be able to check their data and perhaps buy it. I don’t need a nice stamp on things:)

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 19 Nov 17:04 collapse

topton is one of the more “trusted” brands in there. you can get anything from a small dual core celeron to a mobile i7, with two ddr5 slots, m.2 slots, mpcie slots, sata slots… you name it.

it can be quite a punch on a tiny box and it is a very practical all-in-one device, but it does need some tinkering repasting and adjusting out of the box. mine in particular has issues around wol and absolutely needed cooling fans and better thermal paste. ymmv.

here is a popular one.

here is some discussion about these boxes with varying levels of success in using it, its quite good once the kinks are worked out.

this form factor is definetly something if you want a homelab without the hassle, pricetag, size, noise, energy consumption… you can virtualize everything in it if you get one big enough.

agile_squirrel@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 22:52 next collapse

What is the Wi-Fi card for? What software are you using?

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 21:36 collapse

so it can also be my wifi ap, im using virtualized openwrt to make it happen.

the ap i was using is now doing its duty as an extender while the beefier one does firewall, wifi, server, storage you name it…

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:42 collapse

Not my favorite device

modus@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 03:58 collapse

Why not? They look cool, if not a little pricey.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 04:18 collapse

They don’t represent a good value for me. I want something cheaper that has room for expansion.

modus@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 04:35 next collapse

What other products would you recommend for a router?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 05:01 collapse

Any off the shelf device that’s not Broadcom.

Flash OpenWRT and be done

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 19 Nov 17:49 collapse

not the same class of device though

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 19 Nov 17:57 collapse

No but you don’t need a lot of horse power for just gigabit

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 19 Nov 21:07 collapse

you do if you want more than just a router though

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 19 Nov 21:52 collapse

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Separate out your stuff so that one failure doesn’t cause the end of the world.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 20 Nov 13:23 collapse

having another one of these in a cluster is not off the table, but for now size is a priority. its all backed up with another router to take over if needed.

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 21:37 collapse

i dislike the relative lack of repairability and expandability too.

processing power is more than adequate, and it comes in a tiny practical box, this is my priority atm.

JordanZ@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 21:50 next collapse

The basement network and storage/server racks.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e0db4f28-f345-4ecf-bb25-951c0b684939.jpeg">

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/523e6ce7-9b45-4561-9b9a-c4983f8bc83b.jpeg">

Heavy lifting boxes…

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/43b61449-023e-4de8-b889-387171abccbe.jpeg">

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fff357eb-f2db-4ddd-a192-940ce846e3f8.jpeg">

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 17 Nov 22:01 next collapse

Is that a Unifi PDU/UPS? Didn’t even know they made these.

Also, you need to peel the stickers of the screens.

JordanZ@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 22:07 collapse

That is what it is. My older CyberPower unit is down below. Was just easier to manage it all from one place. Need to repurpose that or sell it off…

The screens work fine with the stickers on. Never saw the point in peeling them off.

turmacar@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 23:58 next collapse

Only real reason IMO is dust can collect on the seam and it’s annoying to clean without taking the peel off anyway.

IDK why people get weird about it.

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 18 Nov 07:46 collapse

That is what it is.

It seems they don’t make a variant for Europe so that’s probably why I never heard of it.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:42 next collapse

Why on earth do you have so many DVD drives. Also, are you using Windows?

Sorry to be so judgmental

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 03:02 next collapse

Probably bought an old Redbox and is making a local backup of all the disks

JordanZ@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 05:06 collapse

I own over 4k titles in physical copies. So probably closer to 5-6k discs. As the other person said…backups. I’ve already found a few degraded discs as I’ve been working through.

Pretty much everything in the basement is some variant of linux. Couple more boxes(not pictured) higher in the rack that are just recycled desktops in rack mount cases. Some of the other stuff is windows because of the software being used. I use Mac stuff at work cause that’s what they provide. I don’t really care what OS. I just need it to work and the quickest way for me to get whatever it is done. I’ll reformat stuff to whatever when this project is done and I move on to the next.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 05:42 next collapse

4,000 disks is insane

Maybe post to datahorders as well. I can see why you need so many drives

llii@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Nov 07:31 next collapse

Did you automate the backups?

Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 18:18 collapse

That’s awesome you have a server for ripping. I made a dedicated machine using my old desktop.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0ce1c805-8538-4145-a598-8e6970dd84db.jpeg">

Ryzen 1700, 16gb ram, 12 dvd / Blu-ray drives (one drive does 4k Blu-ray’s) and 2 more usb Blu-ray drives on top.

I ripped so many thousands of DVDs that my neighbor gave me after he passed away.

JordanZ@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 19:29 collapse

The LG drive in my photo(looks like the top drive on yours) can take custom firmware that allows them to be region free and add the ability to rip 4K disks. Can’t actually play them as that requires decryption chips to be in the drive but it makes for a MUCH cheaper 4k ripping drive than a true 4k drive.

Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 21:25 collapse

I did do custom firmware for the internal drive for 4k ripping, but didn’t find the right firmware for the external ones (years ago). Maybe I can find it again once we unpack our storage. We are moving to another state now. Thanks for the info!

[deleted] on 18 Nov 03:02 collapse

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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com on 17 Nov 21:55 next collapse

A mini pc, a raspberry pi 4, 3*usb HDD (2*8tb mirrored and a 1tb for local back up), some Netgear router, a whole lot of spaghetti.

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 17 Nov 21:57 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.secnd.me/pictrs/image/b0296feb-1402-488b-8a76-78b0127e97c2.jpeg">

Top to bottom:

  • Unifi US-16-XG
  • OPNsense DEC740
  • Unifi Switch 24
  • Unifi Switch 16 PoE
  • DIY server with an AsrockRack X470D4U mainboard
  • DIY DAS in an old server case with 18 3.5" bays

Not in picture: My UPSes, RIPE Atlas probe and an Odroid N2+ running my Home Assistant instance

The server runs Proxmox with a bunch of LXC containers running a Docker Swarm cluster.

There’s too many services running so I’m not listing them all. Let’s just say my phone is not going to be thrilled if it goes down. Also, this post was posted through said server.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 03:07 collapse

Why would you need so many cat5 cables with just a few servers?

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 18 Nov 07:42 collapse

The entire house is terminated there, that’s where all the cables go. :)

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 12:48 collapse

You don’t use WiFi for your non-server computers?

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 18 Nov 13:42 collapse

Not really, the only wifi devices are phones and IoT.

fristislurper@feddit.nl on 17 Nov 21:57 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/bf7fc290-86bc-4bad-8806-394eb863e671.jpeg">

This is how I started in a tiny room. I am not proud, but maybe good to show between all the shiny things here.

jenny_ball@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 05:35 collapse

Christ Almighty

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 22:00 next collapse

Used it for Minecraft server for a week then never used it again. Don’t know anything it would be good for that my computer can’t already do better tbh

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/ca1d7d95-a2b3-4aec-9759-3a982253b15b.jpeg">

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:41 next collapse

Don’t use a RPI for hosting

Get a cheap used workstation instead

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 03:23 next collapse

yeah I just ended up using my PC as it is pretty much always on anyways

qaz@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 07:19 next collapse

Or one of those 1L business PC’s

el_abuelo@programming.dev on 18 Nov 21:38 collapse

Care to elaborate? What’s wrong with “hosting” on a rpi?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 21:48 collapse

Underpowered and over priced

Modern amd64 CPUs will run circles around it. Pickup something with a i5-6500 and you will have a much better experience. You also could go older or newer depending on what you are doing.

el_abuelo@programming.dev on 18 Nov 23:16 collapse

I have a pi4 and been very happy with the dimensions and low power usage. What could I get for the same price and power use?

Genuine question. Im looking at a pi5 right now.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 23:55 collapse

Old Intel mini PC

kchr@lemmy.sdf.org on 20 Nov 07:54 collapse

For the same price and power usage as the Pi?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 20 Nov 15:15 collapse

Likely cheaper and the power usage will depend on the hardware. In idle it shouldn’t pull much power. The raspberry pi has gotten a lot more power hungry while also being poor on performance and overpriced.

gingernate@lemm.ee on 18 Nov 04:50 collapse

You could give it to me .

perishthethought@lemm.ee on 17 Nov 22:10 next collapse

My dusty Intel NUC 10:

<img alt="Intel NUC 10" src="https://i.imgflip.com/9aozok.jpg">

With a 2TB USB drive plugged in on the right there.

Runs all these services via Docker like a champ: AudioBookshelf, Dockge, File Browser, Forgejo, FreshRSS, Immich, Jellyfin, LemmySchedule, Memos, Navidrome, Paperless NGX, Pihole, Planka, SideQuests, Syncthing, Wallos

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Nov 22:49 next collapse

My tech stack:
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/8d7f027f-ae3b-4db4-83a1-173f32700d76.webp">

And my storage NAS:
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/bf43d2f8-a760-40a3-abc6-49352c7231ff.webp">

Bottom NUC: General compute
Top NUC: Proxmox with homeassistant, windows server and debian
Raspberry Pi4 inside N64 case: PiHole
Access Point: Unifi Pro
PC for gaming: R7 7800X3D + Nvidia 3070 inside Fractal North
NAS: Ugreen 4800+ with 4x 15TB drives for a total of RaidZ2 30TB usable storage. Used as NFS storage for proxmox.

How it started: 2 8TB external HDDs connected to my bottom NUC.

Primary applications:
*arr Suite, Jellyfin, several minor apps.

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 16:08 collapse

Why do you have the AP in there? Doesn’t that affect your Wi-Fi range?

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 16:12 collapse

Wood in both directions. Also I have no other place to mount it without looking ugly as hell.
Also I’m renting so no easy wall mounting.

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 16:16 collapse

Ah, that makes sense. I have 7 nano HD in my house because constructions here are all concrete, so pretty much 1 AP per room.

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 17:25 collapse

The wall to the right is also solid but doesnt matter as I am not much in there.
But for concrete in all walls…Jeez must be expensive and annoying to run cable in all rooms.

jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 17:43 collapse

That’s an understatement, lol. And all my cabling is 6A, which is basically an iron bar 🤣. It took me and a friend of mine almost 4 days to push that wiring through

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 19:25 collapse

Had to pleasure of reorganizing a half depth networking closet with patchpanels and a half-depth 48-port switch.
Jesus Christ I needed all my strength (while standing on a 2 step ladder) to mash that switch in enough to screw the rack ears… Not pleasent in the slightest.

SorteKanin@feddit.dk on 17 Nov 23:16 next collapse

What do all you guys use these setups for?

BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 01:13 next collapse

My primary use case is safeguarding my important personal artifacts (family photos, digitized paperwork, encryption key / account recovery / 2FA backups) against drive failure (~2TB), followed by my decently sized Plex server (23TB), immich, nextcloud, and various other small things like selfhosted bitwarden, grocy, ollama, and stuff like that.

I run all of my stuff off of a 6 bay Synology (more drives helps with capacity efficiency as double redundancy with 6 drives costs you 30% and I wanted to be protected against drive failures during rebuilding) with an Intel nuc on top to run plex/jellyfin transcoding using quicksync instead of loading the poor nas with cpu transcoding, I also run ollama on the nuc since it has faster cores than the nas.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/4d630cc4-3dda-4ecc-a9be-7eb207cc9651.jpeg">

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:40 collapse

Life

ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 23:40 next collapse

lmao mine looks simple af compared with most people here.

Behold my server :

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1ebb8b5c-fb6a-4d7e-a8ad-f624737e024b.jpeg">

Hardware:

  • Rasberry pi 5 8GB

  • 1TB raid between old drives ( one from PC the other a just a regular external WD hard drive ).

Services

  • Wireguard VPN/wg-easy
  • AudioBookShelf
  • Freshrss
  • Vaultwarden
  • Navidrome
  • Calibre Web
  • Actual Budget
  • Trilium notes

Everything in containers, if you want to know more check this blogpost.

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 00:21 next collapse

Oooo I should do something like this! Right now I have a Pi 4 with OMV and just OMV on it. It’s even running on a SSD. It could do so much more!

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 19 Nov 08:49 collapse

OMV has such a nice Docker management interface too. I really feel spoiled with it.

I was planning on all my services running in ProxMox or something, but my OMV VM handles all of them except PiHole basically lol. OMV is snazzy. :D

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Nov 14:13 collapse

I have a second pi for Pi-Hole! I’ve tried using OMV’s Docker, but I am too dumb to get it configured D: Would you happen to have any resources for getting it up and running?

zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 01:56 next collapse

Nothing wrong with simple! If it works for you that’s all that matters!

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:40 next collapse

What made you go with a RPI 5?

ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 07:53 collapse

Right now I don’t have much to tinker with, so I got something that down the line would serve that role.

Why the 5 specifically, instead of the 4 or other SBC came down to pricing in my region, raw power, and the PCIE slot in which I intend to put a nvme when upgrading my laptop.

merthyr1831@lemmy.ml on 19 Nov 10:16 collapse

mine is a pi 4 but basically the same, just shoved inside a box for protection

drkt@scribe.disroot.org on 18 Nov 00:21 next collapse

Iteration one, the original drkt.eu/library/Museum/old_website_hw.jpg

Iteration two, taking it seriously drkt.eu/library/Museum/ye_olde_server-rack.jpg

Iteration three, evolved LACK rack drkt.eu/library/Museum/new_apartment.jpg

Bonus drkt.eu/library/Museum/backside_mess.jpg

        'Artemis' Server
                MOBO : GigaByte MB GA-Z170XP-SLI
                CPU  : Intel Core i5 6600K 4c/4t
                RAM  : 2x DDR4 8GB CL14 2133 Kingston HyperX
                PSU  : ## TO BE ADDED ##
                Storage         - SATA : SSD 2TB
                                - SATA : HDD 4TB
                                - SATA : SSD 1TB


        'Deimos' Server
                MOBO : ASRock H81M-ITX
                CPU  : Intel Pentium G3220 2c/2t
                RAM  : 2x DDR3 8GB C8 1600 Crucial Ballistix OC
                PSU  : ## TO BE ADDED ##
                Storage         - SATA : HDD 300GB


        'Phobos' Server
                MOBO : Intel H81 Express Chipset
                CPU  : Intel Core i3 4330T 2c/4t
                RAM  : 2x DDR3 4GB 1333
                PSU  : 65 watts AC/DC adapter
                Storage         - SATA : SSD 2TB
jet@hackertalks.com on 18 Nov 00:36 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://hackertalks.com/pictrs/image/22ce9034-d30e-4ded-a6c9-a299d56c684a.jpeg">

Ikea shelf instead of a rack, but I used metal shelves for better thermals!

Top to bottom:

  • Unifi ac
  • Brother printer
  • Sunshine streaming machine
  • ftth 1 / 2, unifi GW pro
  • AVR, UPS, Synology NAS
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 01:23 next collapse

So mines a weird hodge-podge of a HP Proliant (running my modded Minecraft server and Plex) under a bistro table that I use as a standup desk. A HP Thinclient that I run lighter services like my Pi-Hole and Homebridge. and a laptop

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c4655366-87ad-4c33-aed0-f97985902fc4.jpeg">

synnackk@timesink.p3nguin.org on 18 Nov 02:04 next collapse

The cable modem is no longer in use, finally got fiber in my neighborhood but the ONT/GW is in the basement. Beelink is my single (for now) proxmox node, HP is running Plex w/ Intel iGPU for transcoding. DS220+ NAS w/ 2x 16TB drives. Unifi switch 8 and USG-3P (fiber ONT/GW passes through to that and it’s soon to be replaced with a Palo Alto 410, thanks to work) and then another Unifi 8 port lite in my basement office where the ONT/GW lives. Nothing special, very ugly but I hope to upgrade the wired network to 10g in the future to support a proxmox cluster and my ISPs 5Gbps offering. Also plan on converting my old desktop into an Unraid box since I can get a lot of drives from work and don’t really want to stick with the Synology.

<img alt="" src="https://timesink.p3nguin.org/pictrs/image/419f2ffc-4e15-4093-855e-3e7b59c57497.jpeg">

logos@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 02:26 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/36665272-37e5-4dc5-845e-20112ba8cb40.jpeg">

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:38 next collapse

Your machine is going to get fried

logos@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 02:42 collapse

What do you mean? Because no ups?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 02:48 collapse

No, the case is open and there is stuff everywhere. At some point something will fall in and it will cause chaos

logos@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 03:08 collapse

Oh, definitely. Waiting on a power supply for that machine. Using a backup that doesn’t quite fit right now.

AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 07:21 next collapse

messy asf, a proper hobbiest system

Cenzorrll@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 21:17 collapse

This one gave me the confidence to post my setup, I salute your bravery (°_°)7.

The best of luck with your future insurance claim.

logos@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 21:45 collapse

Hey it works!

To be fair I just moved and had to get Plex back up for the wife and audiobookshelf back up for me asap! Should look better soon

loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Nov 02:46 next collapse

16TB btrfs (+ECC RAM) on Debian 12.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/ce04bd7c-dbe3-4e4c-990a-d245e9150d35.webp">

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 19 Nov 08:57 collapse

Simple, elegant, rock solid. Very nice. :) Love your decals too!

Cenzorrll@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 02:48 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/6f102ee6-c2c1-4094-8f31-3d221c784e2d.jpeg">

  • Old Synology NAS for storage
  • Optiplex 7060 running jellyfin, paperless, *arr stack, handbrake, ripper, maybe some other containers.
  • NUC5 running nextcloud (nextcloudpi) baremetal and an audiobiokshelf container
jenny_ball@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 05:34 collapse

now that is uggo. but i may be able to top it. doesn’t have to pretty for me if it works

Cenzorrll@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 15:51 collapse

Uggo = uptime

WhyFlip@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 22:14 collapse

“Uggo” is a slang term that means “ugly”.

[deleted] on 19 Nov 02:53 collapse

.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 02:53 next collapse

Is that just, like, an external hard drive?

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 03:01 next collapse

My dirty data diddler. 10+ yr old amd octacore black running at 4ghz. 4TB of writeable space in it. HD and SSD mix. Old sb xfi audio running to a BT5.0 USB dongle for my games and music. Pioneer CD/DVD writer. Yes I still burn CDs and DVDs for my music and backup purposes heh. White cable on the right hanging vertical is a USBC data/charging cable. The squirrely wires lefttoright are a power line for a digital clock I’m gonna hang on the wall soon. <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e7c78a6e-2e0a-426b-8db1-2eeb42f206a5.jpeg">

swag_money@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 03:13 next collapse

shes listing to the starboard side

sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net on 18 Nov 03:27 next collapse

https://lotide.fbxl.net/api/stable/posts/165851/href

My whole empire, made almost entirely of parts scavenged from roadside signs. (not a single fan on the whole setup)

B0rax@feddit.org on 18 Nov 06:26 next collapse

Very tidy!

PunkiBas@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 11:24 collapse

Roadside signs? Hah! what processor do they have?

sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net on 18 Nov 16:37 collapse

The two top ones host invidious, searx, and yacy on one and lotide (what I'm talking to you on) and matrix on the other, they both have Intel Atom D2550s. The bottom one has an Intel Core i5-4570TE, and hosts basically everything else including my reverse proxy server.

At some point I'd like to move to low-end ryzen embeddeds, because they are either as powerful or more powerful than anything I have and remain fanless, but one step at a time (and finding something that powerful that's inexpensive and scavenged from a roadside sign is tough sometimes)

axelay@lemmy.beagle.quest on 18 Nov 04:02 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.beagle.quest/pictrs/image/e11cd408-8998-45bc-8965-e9496cf8279b.jpeg">

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.beagle.quest/pictrs/image/0b2e8387-3a2c-4e55-9edd-a8ad67da97d1.jpeg">

Running TrueNAS with 4TB usable mirrored storage, 32GB RAM, and an i5-7600. Mostly holds backed up files from my switch from Windows to NixOS. I’ve got it running Frigate with a Coral TPU, Gitea, Homer, Unifi Controller, and Uptime Kuma. I was managing some helm charts on the TrueNAS k3s cluster with flux but conveniently dialed back to only using their built-in apps right before they removed it in favor of docker only.

For the network I’m running OPNSense on a Protectli device with Ubiquiti Unifi for the wifi. The native WireGuard integration on OPNSense is pretty nice.

phx@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 05:38 next collapse

Damn, that’s actually pretty sexy for a fresh-air rack How’s the noise levels?

AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 07:19 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b0e2517f-0daf-4a80-b836-aadf6cf2ffd1.jpeg"> <img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/826b710c-5d90-48c4-ab1d-717d5b9a2ec2.jpeg">

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

archomrade@midwest.social on 18 Nov 16:52 collapse

I’m impressed that you can handle that many jellyfin users

petersr@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 07:33 next collapse

Tower of Pisa would like a word with you.

Or is it just the camera angle that makes it look so tilted?

SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Nov 07:34 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c2b7c6b9-dd08-40d7-a573-54214d9c32ae.png">

Emerald@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 13:47 collapse

So nobody is going to ask about the rotary phone?

isles@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 14:49 next collapse

Be the change you wish you see in the world. :)

SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Nov 15:13 next collapse

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.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today on 19 Nov 07:45 collapse

Oh yes the bright red rotary phone…I imagine if it’s ringing, something has gone terribly wrong.

kalleboo@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 07:52 next collapse

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.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c8c351dc-e607-4459-8057-9262332a9c14.jpeg">

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.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c658bda5-d997-485c-9243-2d152060099d.jpeg">

PunkiBas@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 11:27 next collapse

Oh I love that mini toy rack!

archomrade@midwest.social on 18 Nov 16:43 collapse

I was so close to asking what the hell that thing was

kalleboo@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 05:07 collapse

It’s from a japanese Gacha machine! bitbang.social/@kalleboo/112755170852099746

Allero@lemmy.today on 18 Nov 11:33 collapse

Interesting! May I ask why you use USB port on Synology for Ethernet connection instead of ports on the back? Are they 1gbit?

kalleboo@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 05:05 collapse

Precisely, the rear ethernet is 1 Gbit, the USB adapter is 2.5 Gbit!

Allero@lemmy.today on 20 Nov 05:21 collapse

I see! :)

The ports on most Synology devices are the weak spot indeed.

kalleboo@lemmy.world on 21 Nov 01:00 collapse

It’s 6 years old now so I can’t really complain but even new ones don’t come with 2.5Gbe by standard, it seems that should be cheap enough to throw in there by now. At least a lot of the new ones can be upgraded internally to 10 Gbe.

Allero@lemmy.today on 21 Nov 05:06 collapse

Uh-huh, and plenty of NAS devices had 2,5Gbe even those 6 years ago.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 18 Nov 09:44 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.wtf/pictrs/image/bb277331-d7a3-4098-968d-1e5fffd73487.jpeg">

From top to bottom:

  • Allpower Power Station (UPS with around 4 hours of battery)
  • Unifi gateway
  • Unifi switch
  • Unify CloudKey (Surveillance)
  • Patch panel
  • 1.5U media server
  • Arock Mini running stuff like my Lemmy instance and other self hosted software.

I’m planning to move my Lemmy instance to its own 1.5U.

The whole setup uses around 80-100 watts.

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 18 Nov 10:15 collapse

Is that actually an UPS or just a backup battery? Can it passthrough the line power directly or does the inverter need to run 24/7?

In the latter case you might want to check how much power the inverter eats just by itself. For example, my Bluetti with 2 kWh needs a whopping 50W in idle just to keep the AC ports powered. Of course your unit looks much smaller so it should be way less but still worth measuring.

meldrik@lemmy.wtf on 18 Nov 11:25 collapse

It’s the Allpower R600: iallpowers.eu/…/allpowers-r600-portable-power-sta…

It does do actual passthrough and I also measure wattage directly from the outlet.

2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Nov 12:14 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/bd02b86f-1db6-4a01-b961-fcaf8e5e0d57.png">

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

Batbro@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 13:02 collapse

Pretty clean

Cerothen@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 12:30 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/de2f260a-53fd-4bc1-ab6a-04d8a07d7cc7.jpeg">

Top to Bottom:

  • 48port Patch panel
  • Cisco 2990 48 port Poe
  • 48port Patch panel (future)
  • Cisco 2990 48 port Poe (future)
  • 24 port patch panel (spare)
  • Pfsense 2.5gb eth minipc
  • 4u server 20 bay (proxmox)

Bottom area:

  • 2 mini pcs (proxmox)
  • PiKVM and ezcoo switch connected to all PCs
  • Couple of UPS

The access to the crawlspace isn’t great so the CrapRack ^tm^ had to be assembled in the crawlspace.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 15:57 next collapse

Yo dawg I heard you liked patch panels

Cerothen@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 21:31 collapse

Ha indeed, every room in the house is getting 2 faceplates (on roughly opposite sides of the room) with 4 Ethernet that runs each back to the server rack. Is every room having 8 runs right back to the switch excessive, you bet.

In my old place I had one faceplate with 2 ethernet, coax and phone to each room, but phone and coax is useless and I didn’t have enough Ethernet.

Spezi@feddit.org on 19 Nov 13:58 collapse

Hope you grounded your hardware to the wood.

Emerald@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 12:48 next collapse

I’d rather not. It’s literally a Dell workstation machine from the mid-2000s. It’s like Wolfgang’s Channel kryptonite

matthias@lemmy.klein.ruhr on 18 Nov 15:46 next collapse

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.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.klein.ruhr/pictrs/image/4b339b88-47ae-414f-89d8-3a995ea9a58b.jpeg">

I host the following services on the public Internet:

  • Ghost CMS
  • Mastodon
  • Pixelfed
  • PeerTube
  • Lemmy
  • Rallly
  • Nextcloud with Collabora Office
  • Rustdesk
  • Umami
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Vaultwarden
  • Whoogle
  • Minecraft Server (for my son)

Internally, I also provide the following services:

  • AdGuard Home (redundant)
  • FreshRSS
  • Homepage (Dashboard)
  • Jellyfin
  • the Arr’s
  • Linkwarden
  • WireGuard
  • Zoraxy
  • ChangeDetection
  • Forgejo
  • MeTube/AnonymousOverflow/ProxiTok/RedLib/SafeTwitch/LibMedium
  • Grafana/InfluxDB/Prometheus
  • Homebox
  • IT tools
  • Mealie
  • MiniQR
  • Speedtest-Tracker
  • Wallos
  • Web-Check
Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Nov 19:16 next collapse

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.

matthias@lemmy.klein.ruhr on 18 Nov 20:29 collapse

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/

_hovi_@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 08:59 collapse

Very, very clean

Vikthor@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 13:36 next collapse

Very German even.

matthias@lemmy.klein.ruhr on 19 Nov 15:42 collapse

I don’t know what you are talking about. 😇😂

matthias@lemmy.klein.ruhr on 19 Nov 15:43 collapse

Thanks a lot, that’s how I like it. 👍🏼

acannan@programming.dev on 18 Nov 16:00 next collapse

The small board you can see is a pi hole

I do have more tech elsewhere but this pile is comically ugly

<img alt="" src="https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/7129b3ea-9b48-49a7-b457-785103d687ae.jpeg">

Hamartia@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 16:22 next collapse

Extra points for not lifting the spagetti pile when you’re hovering.

eutampieri@feddit.it on 18 Nov 17:17 collapse

Orange pi zero?

acannan@programming.dev on 18 Nov 21:12 collapse

yep! good eye

archomrade@midwest.social on 18 Nov 16:50 next collapse

The range of sofistication in this thread is actually kind of breathtaking

TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 17:36 next collapse

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.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 18:05 collapse

Comment 1: a small raspberry pi

Comment 2: full rack with tens of thousands worth of hardware

GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 17:16 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/82e64f46-30a1-4d6d-b04b-b4d93eac7e16.jpeg">

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Nov 18:03 next collapse

Fascinating

Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 22:24 next collapse

I need the 2nd cable from to top right to the front bottom left ;)

OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml on 19 Nov 15:47 collapse

Damn that’s alot 😅😂

reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca on 18 Nov 17:39 next collapse

I feel like this should be a quarterly post. Really liking all these setups.

Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world on 18 Nov 17:52 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/13448864-adcb-4f5c-98f1-7883d0502c7f.jpeg">

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.

tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz on 18 Nov 18:36 next collapse

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.

<img alt="" src="https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/62aa01e1-a9dd-4d3e-aeae-2a7db69ccbe1.webp">

DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee on 18 Nov 18:44 next collapse

Some of yall just need to stop with your “cable maintenence” and “airflow” or you’re gonna give the rest of us a complex. 😁

A number of these setups are tight. I’ll post my janky ass “comm closet” when I get home later.

Edit: (1) Fanless MiniPC running pfsense (2.5gbe); (2) 8 port dumb switch; (3) modem; (4) 8 bay NAS running OMV; (5) random USB HDD.

<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/1460ac14-2791-421f-ba9a-a079cfe634bf.jpeg">

VitabytesDev@feddit.nl on 18 Nov 19:11 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/03a7a5b9-d8cd-498c-8527-fe6996a43864.jpeg">

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:

  • Jellyfin
  • All of the *arr stack
  • Pairdrop
  • My website
  • My personal Lemmy instance
  • Immich
  • Pi-Hole
  • Home Assistant
  • Grafana/Prometheus/Node-Exporter stack for monitoring
qaz@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 06:52 collapse

I think I have the same motherboard, it’s the ASUS N100I-D D4, right?

VitabytesDev@feddit.nl on 19 Nov 12:58 collapse

Yes, this is it. I bought it because it was cheap (100€) and had a built-in CPU. The only problems are that it hasn’t got many SATA or PCIe ports. This is fine however, because I have no need for them right now.

qaz@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 19:40 collapse

The only problems are that it hasn’t got many SATA or PCIe ports.

I did need multiple SATA ports and chose to use an m.2 to SATA adapter myself.

Eric_Pollock@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 19:44 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/75ad0979-10e7-4235-9147-45d3b644da65.webp">

blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk on 18 Nov 21:05 next collapse

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.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.fwgx.uk/pictrs/image/38060dd9-9f78-4559-8bc1-f42011973a84.jpeg">

A bit more context

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.fwgx.uk/pictrs/image/9bd16d39-43c0-4494-8aed-82aabdb515e0.jpeg">

More guts showing the mess.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.fwgx.uk/pictrs/image/3a8dc7e3-b937-4e06-8303-081d6802aa4d.jpeg">

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.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.fwgx.uk/pictrs/image/e669e5e4-9c44-4ad7-b0a9-4a3fd24927cf.jpeg">

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 22:05 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/5a87e2f1-c74b-4031-9b66-d937cbe84806.jpeg">

Main Server

Services

  • Jellyfin
  • FreshRSS
  • Borg
  • Immich
  • Nextcloud AIO
  • RSS-Bridge

Hardware

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-4460
  • GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
  • Memory: Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G (8GB DDR3-1600)
  • Motherboard: ASUS H81I-PLUS

OS

  • Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Reverse Proxy

Services

  • Caddy

Hardware

  • Rasbperry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5 (2GB)

OS

  • Debian 12

Router

Hardware

  • TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750

OS

  • OpenWRT 23.05.5
pierre@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 00:41 next collapse

Looks like a Fractal Node 304? I have one too ! I took it on a boat for 3 months a few years ago, it was fun.

Hardware

  • Node 304
  • Asrock B550M motherboard, Ryzen 3 3100, 32 GB DDR4, 1TB NVME SSD.
  • Nvidia GT730 (used to connect to a TV on the boat)
  • 4x12TB HDD in Raidz1

Router

Unifi Dream Machine

Backups

14TB USB external HDD

OS, Core and Network services

OS

  • Ubuntu - Proxmox Virtual Env
  • aptcacher-ng (apt cache)

Network

  • pfsense firewall (+ Unifi router) with pfblocker-ng
  • caddy as reverse proxy
  • pihole with unbound

Supervision

  • zabbix for diagnostics and monitoring
  • Gotify for notifications

Services

Programming and Stuff

  • Gitlab
  • Code-server

Media, files

  • Nextcloud
  • Jellyfin
  • Kavita
  • Calibre-server
  • Kiwix
  • formerly airsonic-ng for podcasts.

Social

  • Firefish - mastodon (Misskey fork), now sadly deprecated
  • bookwyrm (federated goodreads compatible with mastodon)

Other

  • 13ft (paywall unlocker and simple web-proxy)
  • linguacafe (language learning)

Soon

  • more admin automation (ansiblr agent)
  • hardware transcode (GPU upgrade and passthrough, or remote ffmpeg).
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works on 21 Nov 01:31 collapse

Looks like a Fractal Node 304?

Yep! I’ve found that the case is possibly a little too cramped for my liking — I’m not overly fond of the placement of the drive bay hangars — but overall it’s been alright. It’s definitely a nice form factor.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 20 Nov 21:51 collapse

Why did you go with a CPU with DDR 3 ram?

Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works on 21 Nov 01:23 collapse

It wasn’t a deliberate choice. It was simply hardware that I already had available at the time. I have had no performance issues of note as a result of the hardware’s age, so I’ve seen no reason to upgrade it just yet.

Spezi@feddit.org on 18 Nov 22:05 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/0c165f12-027f-42d5-8def-48e864da7017.jpeg">

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.

<img alt="" src="https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/bb899b91-3d0c-4404-a764-5298fc6e4226.jpeg">

At home I have this setup, my main synology NAS and a thinkcentre with an i7 and 16GB of ram for Minecraft and FiveM.

noahimesaka1873@lemmy.funami.tech on 19 Nov 13:45 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.funami.tech/pictrs/image/35aa7136-83c6-44f8-aee9-72cee3725229.jpeg"> The main server. Specs:

  • Ryzen Threadripper 7960X
  • 256GiB (4x64GiB quad-channel) of DDR5 REG/ECC running at 4800MT/s
  • 256GB SATA for Proxmox boot disk, 2TB WD BLACK SN850X NVMe for VM data
  • NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super for workstation use, AMD Radeon Pro WX 3100 for Proxmox console
  • Proxmox VE
  • RHEL 9 for server (14c, 160GiB RAM, 800GB SSD), Arch for workstation (10c, 80GiB RAM, 1.6TB SSD)

Server runs:

  • Mastodon
  • Minio for S3 bucket
  • Lemmy
  • Four Minecraft server, two modded and two vanilla
  • Jellyfin
  • Roon
  • Komga
  • Nextcloud AIO
  • Pi-Hole
  • Bluesky PDS

Bonus: I use Oracle Cloud server for:

  • Mirror
  • Ghost blog
  • Synapse
  • Vaultwarden
  • Wikiless
jjlinux@lemmy.ml on 18 Nov 15:57 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/737960c8-1bef-4e57-a23b-3ac06f40ec2e.jpeg">

I know it’s a mess 😅 That NUC holds my Proxmox server.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/28a16f26-eae2-4b75-b543-c3f989e4bf33.jpeg">

That box is my 20TB Unraid server exclusively for storage.