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Discuss what your hosting at home, get recommendations and ask for help.
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Question: I have a variety of older e-waste machine that I've rescued and held on to. I'm interesting in running some kind of homelab (probably a nextcloud instance, or some kind of shared drive for all the devices in the half_elf_monastery. What should I be looking for in hardware? Should I prioritize the best processor? Or the most capacity for storage expansion? Lowest power consumption? Is form factor a consideration at all (i.e., laptop vs. desktop vs. server-rack? Those with experience...
💬 4 comments · Oct 09 · 5 days ago
I use Coolify with simple OCI (docker) containers to host my website from a bag of static HTML files. Finding such containers for HTTP is easy; can anyone suggest such a turnkey container for a Gemini server?
💬 1 comment · Jul 23 · 3 months ago
What do you self host in your homelab? — Think this would be nice. How about we each share the services we self host in our homelabs. I'll start On my main machine, running Ubuntu server 24.04 I run CasaOS for easy docker deployments with: my own docker images for [gopher link] [gemini link] [finger link] and [https link] for my domain sava.rocks Trillium - best note/code taking app NGINX proxy manager ZNC Gotify Duplicati Jellyfin Deluge Wireguard Gitea Uptime Kuma I plan on adding...
💬 7 comments · 5 likes · Jul 21 · 3 months ago
Blogged about the email server "mox" and fab of redterminal.org suggested posting it here. [gemini link] Blog post about mox [gemini link] Red Terminal (fab's Capsule)
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · Mar 08 · 7 months ago
I give you... the Lack Ness. All my home machines are named after mythical sea creatures. Here you have Kraken (the Cisco switch) and Jormungandr (A Thinkserver T460 in a Rosewill enclosure). Since Ikea no longer makes these with solid legs, they are bolted all the way through the Lack table legs. A headache, to be sure, but very sturdy. There's the hard part over. Time to 3D print some rack mount enclosures.
💬 7 comments · 1 like · 2024-06-04 · 1 year ago
The Lackrack begins! I've just finished putting together a lackrack with casters, as well as a top and bottom table surface. Next up is a patch panel, used Cisco WS-C3650, re-cased used Lenovo TS460, UPS, industrial 5v power supplies, and as many spare Raspberry Pis in 3D printed rackmount enclosures as I dare. The beefiest system will be running NetBSD and Xen for virtualization, leveraging ZFS on the storage. 64 GB of RAM and several WD Reds should do nicely. I'm thinking Kubernetes/...
💬 2 comments · 2024-05-20 · 1 year ago
10tb cheap drives — folks i remember someone found 10tb cheap hard drives somewhere, maybe on ebay? or maybe you know where to get sech drives? i found some drives used for 5 years in data center, but refubrished and with 5 years warranty. is it possible? and they contain helium instead of air. have you heard of such a technology? thank you.
💬 1 comment · 2024-03-23 · 2 years ago
It all started with a snap! — As of today, I am running just over 70 docker containers (but no snaps) on my Ubuntu host server whirring away in my electronics cabinet. I run my own DNS with Pihole, I stream my movies with Jellyfin, I automate my home with Home Assistant, I serve my own push notifications with Ntfy and the list goes on. I self-host all these services today but it all started with "sudo snap install nextcloud". In the beginning I used almost all of Nextcloud's services. It seemed...
💬 3 comments · 4 likes · 2023-12-14 · 2 years ago
Free idea for those who are interested: gemini capsule on esp32 or small linux SBC powered by solar and wind energy
💬 2 comments · 2023-11-10 · 2 years ago
Looking in the electronics trash at my company, I found a nice 4 TB hdd. Unfortunately, the drive was in the trash for a reason, the SMART report indicated some errors. When I ran the `badblocks` command, a dozen of bad blocks were found, all lumped toogether at the end of the drive. I still want to use the drive, if only for data I won't be too sad to loose. How should I process? Can I make partition around the block? Is there a way to tell the filesystem not to use those blocks? What should I...
💬 3 comments · 2023-07-01 · 2 years ago
Homelab: The Smol Perspective While perusing the thread of people's setups, I was chuffed to see a strong pressence of 'smol' computers: SBCs, repurposed equipment, aging machines and related kin. I suppose it isn't surprising here in the gemisphere. Sparked up a lot of related thoughts I've been mulling over that seem appropriate for this space. As time goes on, I find myself reflecting more and more on the subjects of permaculture, accessibility, how technology meets humanity (and doesn't),...
💬 5 comments · 4 likes · 2023-06-28 · 2 years ago
Does anyone know how to get old stuff trashed by enterprises? Is it a good way to get cheaper stuff?
💬 4 comments · 2023-06-19 · 2 years ago
What’s everyone running in their homelab? I’m just getting started with mine, but here’s what I have so far: Unraid running on a Pentium G3220/16 GB RAM/2x4TB box I built in college PiHole docker on Unraid NextCloud docker on Unraid Agate Gemini server on a Ubuntu Server VM on the NAS Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE for routing and as an NVR with a 4Tb drive 3 Ubiquiti U6 Lite PoE APs 3 Ubiquiti G5 Flex PoE cameras 1 Ubiquiti G4 Instant WiFi camera I’ve got a M1 Mac Mini I’m looking to throw Asahi...
💬 11 comments · 2 likes · 2023-06-15 · 2 years ago
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