cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cloudhub.social/post/2392

Figured we’d start this community off with a question about what you’re running in your homelab!

This could be anything from hardware to software to things your running in the cloud (#cloudlab).

Hardware and diagram pics are always welcome!

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    Intel nuc

    • homeassistant
    • mqtt
    • rtl433
    • piper
    • portainer
    • zigbee2mqtt
    • esphome
    • calibre
    • jellyfin
    • doods
    • pihole
    • adguard
    • valheim and other game servers Synology nas
    • caldav
    • redundant pihole
    • files hosting
    • unificontroller Older thin client
    • opnsense with wireguard Unifi Switches and APs
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      Nice list! I’m curious, why are you running 2 pi-hole and an adguard instance?

      (I also run 2 pi-hole instances for redundancy)

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      I’ve moved to technitium DNS nowadays. I found that it works better for me then AGH.

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    • System76 Meerkat with attached external drive
    • Unifi USG/Unifi APs/switches
    • RaspberryPI/PiHole
    • Emby
    • Nextcloud
    • Gitea
    • Various simple websites

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    I have a relatively small setup, because of space and cooling constraints, but in that setup:

    • Generic server with a Xeon E5-2697 v2, kinda old but it’s still got 12c/24t, and 64 gigs of memory
    • Around 40TB of storage space, of which I’m using roughly 1%. I’m not even a datahoarder, I’m just a storage space hoarder.

    Everything I self host runs through Proxmox, either as a LXC container or as a RHEL 9 virtual machine. I also have a RasPi running Pi-Hole for ad blocking.

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      Lots of Proxmox users here! That’s good to see. I’m also running Proxmox after using ESXI in my lab for a few years. Too expensive.

      Around 40TB of storage space, of which I’m using roughly 1%. I’m not even a datahoarder, I’m just a storage space hoarder.

      Save some for the rest of us, eh?

      Sounds like a pretty solid setup!

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        I’m sure someone from /r/datahoarder is going to be coming along very soon that stored half the internet but I’m sitting at 123TB currently which is already excessive.

        Using 80% of that space right now.

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    Raspberry Pi 4 running home assistant

    Intel NUC running frigate and a minecraft server

    Custom built PC (i3-10100, 16gb ram, GTX1070 for transcoding. 24tb array with two parity disk, 2x 3tb ssd’s in array for docker, os, etc) with quite a lot of storage running Unraid, which is my media server, backup server, and now my lemmy server.

    Network is a mikrotik Hex S router and a netgear gigabit switch, with 1gb fiber internet. 2 Ubiquity AP’s for wifi in the house.

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      How do you secure your lemmy instance on your home network? I’m interested in doing it but I’m unsure if a reverse proxy would be good enough security. My other public facing services run behind traefik and authelia, but I figure you wouldn’t want lemmy behind any auth for ease of use.

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        Mostly I am depending on reverse proxy yes.

        Otherwise there’s not critical data on the box that could cause a problem for me if the server was owned and everything exfiltrated. Worst case if I had to completely wipe the box it would be annoying but not worse then that.

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    Hi! I’m Michael and this is my first lemmyverse post!

    An old Lenovo thinkstation with 128Gb RAM, 512Gb SSD (x2), 4Tb SATA (x2) and 2Tb SATA for ISOs and backups. Running proxmox with VMs (Windows Server 2022, Home Assistant, Win 11 RDP jumpstation, OPNSense firewall, unifi controller and a Linux general purpose server). I have a dedicated server also running proxmox with a webserver, monitoring server (openitcockpit), meshcentral server.

    Raspberry pi 4 as a backup and motioneye server in my garage.

    A couple of other raspberry pi 4s doing things… Including 2 at my caravan running HA, Plex and general stuff.

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    • My Raspberry Pi running Alpine, workint as a dust collector home server
    • My Ryzen 5625U(from the top of my head) laptop which I use for light gaming and work mostly. Runs Artix Linux
    • My beloved Ryzen 3 1200, RX 580, 2 1TB SSDs + 1 240GB SSD + 1 TB HDD. Also runs Artix Linux
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    I have a pretty modest setup. This is just what’s in or on my cabinet rack.

    1. Old two bay NAS
    2. New five drive bay server I’m replacing the old NAS with and running local stable diffusion and language models on. I managed to fit my old nVidia 3070 in the rack mount case. There’s no way a card the size of a 3090 would fit
    3. Some raspberry Pi’s
    4. Rack mount firewall
    5. Old Acer monitor, keyboard
    6. Dumb PDU and an old battery backup that I replaced the batteries on
    7. An old 802.11ac WiFi router set up as just a WAP, dedicated for home automation

    Plan is to set up something like open stack but right now it’s just running unmanaged (orchestrated?) docker containers. I recently learned about ansible so may just automate the docker containers instead of figuring out open stack.

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      You fit a 3070 in a 5-bay NAS?? That’s impressive! I haven’t done much with ML, but it is a very interesting field of work. I’ve seen people do some pretty crazy things with it!

      Ansible is nice, but have you heard of Terraform? Or, if you prefer programming/scripting as opposed to HCL/YAML, there is also Pulumi with lets you use terraform via a few different programming languages. (Ansible is nice though, I used to use it all the time in my lab, and it just works)

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    Has anyone tried running a Lemmy instance on theirs? I know it wouldn’t be a good idea to run one for public use, but I’m curious if anyone has tried just for fun.

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    Box I built around a AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, running Ubuntu 22.04 and a handful of qemu VMs (owncloud, pihole, checkmk, etc…) A hand-me-down qnap I keep threatening to put truenas on but haven’t yet. A couple libre computer (pi alternative) boards. A couple tp-link managed switches.

    On my to-do list are to deploy an old Dell mini as an OpnSense box to replace my router.

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    • Little servers - 3 x Pentium D-1508s w/32GB RAM, 2 x 400GB SSDs
    • Big server - 1 x Dual Xeon E5-2650L v3 w 128GB RAM, 2 x 100GB SSDs, 2 x 400GB SSDs, 2 x 800GB SSDs, 8 x 4TB HDDs
    • Desktop - 1 x Ryzen 5800X3D w 32GB RAM, 1 x 2TB NVMe SSD, RTX 4080
    • Cheap TP-Link 10Gbps switch
    • Proxmox running across the servers, the 400GB SSDs are running Ceph, everything else in ZFS
    • VyOS in a VM for routing etc…, 2Gbps symmetric internet
    • Mostly LXC at present, in the process of migrating that to Hashicorp Nomad (running inside VMs) backed by Ceph
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      On the big server, what do you use the assortment of SSDs for? I get specifically having a good chunk of solid state storage, but im wondering if you’re like me and just acquired them over time, or if there’s a specific purpose in mind.

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        Mostly over time - OS on the pair of 100s, the 800s were for containers/VMs - this use is moving over to CephFS though - the three smaller boxes are a recent addition.

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    My main machine is an Optiplex 7070 micro (i5 8th gen, 16gb ram, 500gb SSD + 4TB hdd). I also have a pi 3 + 4tb hdd for backups and a pi 4 for wireguard. I have a few other SFF computers, but I don’t have a use for them at the moment.

    For services, I host many of the popular ones (nextcloud, portainer, paperless, etc.), but here’s 3 I haven’t seen mentioned a lot:

    • komga (ebook reader, works well with tachyiomi on my tablet)
    • kitchenowl (recipes and meal scheduling)
    • calckey (activitypub server)
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      Noice, I’ve been meaning to setup something like paperless! Calckey looks like a good solution/alternative to Mastodon with an interesting user interface.

      I haven’t heard of the other two, but I’ll definately check out kitchenowl, could use some more meal planning!

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    Intel NUC with a hard drive for local stuff (*arrs, jellyfin), but nowadays because I plan to go back to full-time motorhoming I fire up stuff on DO, hetzner, AWS, GCS, etc as required. At the moment just a Lemmy and general purpose instance, but I do pop up the odd gameserver I’ve dockerized on one of these services while playing with friends

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      Awesome! Yeah, my instances are currently running on DO, but it’s pretty expensive hosting in the cloud when you have a lab at home. My internet here isn’t very good though, that’s the main thing stopping me from moving them on-prem.

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        Joe’s datacenter & hetzner server auctions are good deals if you’ve got bad internet and want to run your own multiple smaller VMs! Depending on latency in the case of hetzner.

        But yeah, hosting at home is always great. I did it for years, but electricity prices began creeping up and I got tired of the maintenance

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          Yeah, that’s true, they do have pretty good prices. I like DO though because it’s where I started and they have a DC not too far from me, so latency is very low.

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              That’s true! Those do add up over time.

              I’d love to go full cloud-native with a kubernetes cluster, but I can’t justify the $100+ a month for a reasonable cluster :(

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                That’s my disappointment as well! I’ve done k3s on a droplet, and it was nice, but I’d like to handover the control plane to a cloud provider when I’m experimenting without burning my wallet.