Post your setup. no matter how uggo

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.

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

lmao mine looks simple af compared with most people here.

Behold my server :

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.

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

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

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

Bonus https://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

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

My tech stack:

And my storage NAS:

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.

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

The basement network and storage/server racks.

Heavy lifting boxes…

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

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

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

(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°.

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.

What do all you guys use these setups for?

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

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

My little cluster

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)

My dusty Intel NUC 10:

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

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.

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.

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

Seven Raspberry Pi 4's and one Pi Zero, mounted on some tile "shelves" inside some IKEA furniture.

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).

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

Could I interest you in some diagonal bracing today?

Here's my messy-cabled 9u rack.

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.

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.

Rack server on a lack IKEA table.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Nice trapezoid

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

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.