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
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
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
Why did you go with a CPU with DDR 3 ram?
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).
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.
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 think I have the same motherboard, it’s the ASUS N100I-D D4, right?
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.
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.
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.
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.
The other side of the rack was HDMI switchers and some game consoles.
Going to miss the 1gbps fiber internet, we now have Starlink.
I feel like this should be a quarterly post. Really liking all these setups.
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.
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
I know it’s a mess 😅 That NUC holds my Proxmox server.
That box is my 20TB Unraid server exclusively for storage.
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
Very, very clean
Thanks a lot, that’s how I like it. 👍🏼
Very German even.
I don’t know what you are talking about. 😇😂
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/