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
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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.
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
I feel like this should be a quarterly post. Really liking all these setups.
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.
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.
Fascinating
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.
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:
- 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
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://klein.ruhr/my-homelab/
The small board you can see is a pi hole
I do have more tech elsewhere but this pile is comically ugly
Orange pi zero?
yep! good eye
Extra points for not lifting the spagetti pile when you’re hovering.
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.
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.
Yo dawg I heard you liked patch panels
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.
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 romPretty clean
I’d rather not. It’s literally a Dell workstation machine from the mid-2000s. It’s like Wolfgang’s Channel kryptonite
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.
Be the change you wish you see in the world. :)
