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N100 that just got built today with only Ubuntu and portainer installed. I still gotta migrate what I had in my main PC, which was emby, sonarr, bazarr, qbittorrent and prowlarr. It'll be...fun
Not sure if I'm late on the draw here, but:
Debian 12 "Bookworm" Ancient 2007 Quad Core Intel Q6600 ASUS P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard 8 GB RAM 64GB SSD for the OS and a few applications 6x2TB Laptop HDDs in RAID 5 - scavenged from electronics scrap All wrapped up in a spare full tower I had from an old build
For now, the few services I have running are local network only. They are simply a few Docker containers running PiHole and Portainer. The RAID array is set up as a network share via SMB for my various personal devices to dump files to.
I am very new to the whole self-hosted thing and enjoying learning. Really, new to Linux, servers, networking, etc. Would love to hear some recommendations on what services I should look into, resources for learning more, critiques, etc. So far, browsing topics on here has been pretty helpful.
I have a 10 year old CPU running Intel i3 (don't know what generation) with 12GB of ram, few HDSs (8TB, 2TB and 1TB) , SSD(128GB) for Debian.
The motherboard has a VGA and I don't have any VGA display with me. So if anything goes wrong at reboot, I mostly do guesswork and resolve it.
The PSU fan is whining and hanging on to its life.
I am an atheist , but I pray to God for my PSUs life.
Main site:
- 5950X on a GA-AB350-Gaming 3
- 64GB
- 1TB NVMe mirrored
- 24TB RAIDz1, using external USB 3 disks
- Ubuntu LTS
- 700Mbps uplink
- OpenWrt on Pi 4 router
- Home Assistant Yellow
Off site:
- ThinkCentre 715q
- 2400GE
- 8GB
- 256GB NVMe
- 24TB RAIDz1, using external USB 3 disks
- Ubuntu LTS
- 30Mbps uplink
- OpenWrt on Pi 4 router
Syncthing replicates data between the two. ZFS auto snapshots prevent accidental or malicious data loss at each site. Various services are running on both machines. Plex, Wiki.js, OpenProject, etc. Most are run in docker, managed via systemd. The main machine is also used as a workstation as well as games. The storage arrays are ghetto special - USB 3 external disks, some WD Elements, some Seagate in enclosures. I even used to have a 1T, a 3T and a 4T disk in an LVM volume pretending to be an 8T disk in one of the ZFS pools. The next time I have to expand the storage I'll use second hand disks. The 5950X isn't boosting as high as it should be able to on a chipset with PB2, but I got all those cores on a B350 board. 😆 Config management is done with SaltStack.
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Ryzen 2700X on a gigabyte B450i
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Arc A380
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2 mirrored 4TB HDDs and 1 12 TB HDD, luks encrypted and on 2 zpools (I have an "unsafe" mount path for data on a single drive like media)
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removable flash drive with boot partition and main SSD keyfile
-Zwave dongle
That's it.
I can run everything I need to on it and my home internet is only 100/30 still because I don't live in a city, so 2.5gig networking isn't worth the cost. a380 does all of the hardware transcoding I need at a fairly low power. It isn't as good as just getting a newer NUC, but it was cheaper and a fun project.
Also doing a full renovation, so KNX will be connected for home assistant to control my lights and things and my smart home stuff will probably balloon.
Self built Proxmox server (5600G/64gb ram/1x2tb nvme+4x4tb hdd) with 2 nics running litrally everything. List of services I run is long and Im too lazy to type them.
Power
- 2x feeds into the rack (same circuit but we'll work on that)
- Eaton 2000VA double conversion UPS on Feed A
- APC 1500VA line interactive UPS on Feed B (bypassed, replacing it with another double conversion 2kVA eventually)
Network
- 2x Dell N2048P, stacked (potentially getting replaced with 2x stacked Cisco 9300)
- FortiGate firewall
- 1000/50 FTTP primary Internet link
- 4G backup Internet link using a different Telco (the dream is to replace this with Starlink)
Storage
- Synology 4-bay NAS with 4x4TB in RAID-10 (for overflow storage from Virtual SAN cluster)
- HP MSL2024 8GB Fiber Channel LTO5 Tape autoloader for off-site backup
Compute
- Dell R520 running VMware ESX for Production (2x Xeon E5-2450L, 80GB DDR3, 4x500GB SSD RAID-10 for Virtual SAN, 1x10TB SATA "scratch" disk, 2x10G fibre storage NICs, 2x1G copper NICs for VM traffic)
- Dell R330 running VMware ESX for backups and DR (1x Xeon E3-1270v5, 32GB DDR4, 2x512GB SSD RAID-1, 2x4TB HDD RAID-1, 8G FC card for tape library)
A second prod host will join the R520 soon to add some redundancy and mirror the Virtual SAN.
All VMs are backed up and kept in an encrypted on-site data store for at least 4 weeks. They're duplicated to tape (encrypted) once a month and taken off site. Those are kept for 1 year minimum. Cloud backup storage will never replace tape in my setup.
Services
As far as "public facing" goes, the list is very short:
Though I do run around 30-40 services all up on this setup (not including actual non-prod lab things that are on other servers or various SBCs around the place).
If I had unlimited free electricity and no functioning ears I'd be using my Cisco UCS chassis and Nexus 5K switch/fabric extenders. But it just isn't meant to be (for now, haha).
Currently I have a pi4b running Home Assistant, Adguard, influx db, Maria db, Grafana, node red...
I have a pi3b running my main Adguard and Raspotify.
My main Pi can't handle Adguard and HA together, keeps crashing. So I just bought a Dell Optiplex 7050 mini to be an actual home server instead of having everything running as Home Assistant add-ons.
Planning on using it for Arr, Plex, HA, anything else I can think of, with my Pis being my Adguard and Raspotify instances and maybe get some Bluetooth tracking going in the house while I'm at it.
Might run a little Minecraft server for the kids too
I have a pi5 running everything like a pihole and my lemmy instance
I'm running my email server on a POCO F1 ex-Android phone (running PostmarketOS now).
I wish I could get NixOS running on it, then I'd move other things also there.
PA-220 fw for internet access. An old workhorse, Synology DS1812+, for filesharing. A mac mini with Ubuntu running Plex and Roon also hosting Dashy in docker. A Hwg-ste to measure temp in my cabinet. I host a RIPE probe. An RPI4 running Zabbix. My next project is moving from PA-220 to something in the 400 series (probably 415) so I can upgrade to newer PANOS.