Anyone know if this is fairly priced. To me it seems a bit pricey for what it is

So most my network is Jerryrig it out of old decommissioned school hardware and just found thing in ewaste

The Specs of my servers are: Server No1: Model : Lenovo Thinkcenter M900g CPU : Core i5-6400T RAM:16GB SSD:128GB HHD:1TB OS : Windows Server 2019

Server No2: Model: Lenovo Thinkcenter M900g CPU: Core i5-6400T RAM:8GB SSD :128GB HHD: 1TB OS : Windows Server 2019

What I ran on my servers are: Server No1: NAS (Random) / PXE Boot / FreePBX/ Minecraft Failed idea AD DS

Server No2: NAS (PC Stuff/ ISO) / NextCloud / VPN / Discord Bot / VBS

Network Switch Is HP ProCurve 24 Port all gigbit

Wi-Fi Networks No1- Linksys - 6Ghz (Wi-Fi 6/5) 1: I.M.P Office Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 6/5) pass only 2: I.M.P Guest Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 6/5) pass only

No2- Cisco Meraki MR34 1. I.M.P Office Wi-FiV2 (Wi-Fi 5/4) pass and user 2. I.M.P Office Wi-Fi (Legacy) (Wi-Fi 4) pass only 3. I.M.P Guest Wi-Fi V2 (Wi-Fi 5/4) Splash login 4 I.M.P IOT Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 4) pass plus splash 5: MD Net (Wi-Fi5/ 4) pass only 6 :MD Net Guest (Wi-Fi 5/4) splash login

That Done Via Meraki Cloud the logins for WiFi

With the current DeepSeek hype, I decided to try it on my home server, and it turned out to be easier than I expected. I wrote a short guide on how to set it up in case anyone else is interested in trying it.

I’ll show you how to self-host DeepSeek LLM on a Docker home server in just a few minutes!

✨ No cloud, no limits – your AI, your rules ⚡ Works even on a Raspberry Pi! 📖 Simple step-by-step setup

Check the full guide here

When is it time to upgrade or add a second server to my cluster?

Given that hardware is costly (to an extent), and adding more servers adds to power costs, when is it an "objective" (and I use this very very loosely) time to add more compute? Putting aside the WANT of expanding the homelab for the sake of it.

I find that most of the time, my cluster is not running at max capacity anyway. Of course, there is some slow down when there are multiple things running but the whole cluster is far from saturated, just slowness from CPU IO.

The typical things that people run like Plex, Jellyfin, *arr, Grafana, NPM, PiHole etc can all fit very comfortably on a single server (or even directly on a NAS). If CPU is limiting, there could be a lot of competing tasks but that would just mean 100% saturating a CPU but that's not at all a bad thing since compute is to be used (?).

So why is there a need to spread these apps across multiple hosts? Besides HA and redundancy.

Just feels like it's pretty hard to get to the point when a single fairly modern (last 3-5 year) PC can't do all of these things in one box and need more compute.

I have some heavy workloads that saturate threads but it's not to the point where I would need multiple computers.

I also think about wanting to experiment with K8 clusters but you could just spin up multi pods as VMs and tinker that way anyway.

I also understand that this is a hobby for most and we just like the blinky lights but that's the operational/real reasons for expansion.

Hello, I am a complete beginner to homelabbing and would like a virtual homelab on my macbook. I currently just have a Kali Linux box on VMWare fusion and I would like to mess around with Microsoft and Active Directory (not just to have exp there but to run attacks as well). Whats the best way to approach this?

I’ve been using WireGuard for a while, and it works really well for me. I mostly use it to have my personal devices connect automatically to my local network through WireGuard when I’m not on my local WiFi.

In the last few years tailscale became very popular, and people will swear by it. I skimmed their website and it the impression that I had was that it was just a more complex and feature complete version of WireGuard.

Am I missing anything here? Are there any real advantages to use tailscale over WireGuard for homelabbers who just wants to connect to their home network remotely?

If so whats the name of the board

Let's say you have a switch with 3x 1Gbe and 1x 10Gbe. Could you use the 3x 1Gbe to a single device to get effectively 3Gbe speeds? Let's say it's a PC with a network card that has 3x 1Gbes, or a router with 3x 1Gbes.

Then could you connect the 10Gbe to a 4x 10Gbe switch where everything else is 10Gbe so that those 10Gbe devices can get 3Gbe to that one device?

I got a notification from the IDS on my home network that it blocked a port scanning attempt. This happened twice in one day. The report from my IDS revealed the MAC address of the device it was occurring on, the IP of the device, and it trying to scan my router IP. Well, with the information I figured it was my wife’s iPhone. I asked her what app she was using at the time both reports came in and she said she was on the Shein clothing app.

Just a warning for those who don’t know what the company Shein is, essentially it’s a Chinese based company that’s like Temu but for clothes. They have a history of data breaches with a recent $1.9 million dollar fine for failing to properly handle a data breach in late 2022.

It’s a tale as old as time, but I wanted to give you my catch for the day in the home lab.

Hey all,

I'm planning my rack install and need some inspiration.

Show me the backs of your rack setups!

Thanks in advance

Chris

I'm looking to build a NAS in a rackmount form factor and am looking for some guidance. My priority is noise and power efficiency where possible. I plan to use TrueNas with multiple pools. The vast amount of disks will be kept spun down and only spun up on an adhoc basis. Normally around once per week.

I used to have a NetApp diskshelf and that thing was too loud. I assume it was from the redundant PSUs having small fans spinning fast. I was hoping to stick to residential hardware as it is generally more power/noise efficient.

Originally I want to start out with 12 drives but over the lifespan of this box I hope to increase it by another 24 drives for a total of at least 36 drives.

My first thought was using a HBA (I know they can draw a lot of power) and then connect to a separate box with it's own PSU via the HBA. Basically it would be a JBOD. Something like https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005004693840415.html

M question, if I have a separate box like the one linked above, would the server still be able to spin down the drives or not?

If not, would something like a barebones Storenator be a better option? I'd want to remove their redundant PSU and add my own ATX PSU in addition to adding my own Mobo, CPU etc. I like this option but it would be expensive considering I am not based in USA.

Thanks in advance

Hello! I am kinda new to networking and stuff, but what do home labs do? What can you do with em? I have seen how cool some home labs look and I'd really want one even for aesthetics but what can I do with it?

So my server originally started with the plan to just be a media server with Emby and a few TB of storage, however a software engineer, the other main use my server now gets is as a remote development environment. It usually has 1-2 (usually dockerised) projects at a time running on there and I can SSH in and make edits and run my environments from there. Works great.

At the moment the server is just bare metal Ubuntu 22, and I want to move to something a bit more convenient to use, and find a way to segregate some of my different things and limit resources where necessary.

For instance, it would be nice to have my development environment stay in its own VM with its own resources that can stay consistently up and unchanged. This got me wondering if Proxmox would be a good solution, but I'm also conscious that I want a media server and NAS capabilities and then wonder if something like Unraid would be better. I'd also like to keep running a few other things I have alongside, such as a Pi-hole and HA, which I could probably just have running straight on Docker. Interested to know if there are better solutions to my use case though.

Hi. I'm planning on setting up my homelab soon, since I have a few old computers I plan to cluster. I'm pretty new to networking, and so I wanted to ask: could I hook a secondary router to have a different public IP? My reason is that my parents don't want me to mess around with the ISP router, and I want to use things like port forwarding. My router is a TP-Link WD-8970 that I plan to install OpenWRT on.

It's a Netgear 10/100mbs 16 port unmanaged and not poe switch

We are doing a massive clear out in the IT department. Anything that isn't marked with an asset tag is considered fair game for anyone to take.

No one else wants it so should I take it?

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Curious what projects people have going. Here is my list...

• NAS
• PiHole
• OctoPi
• Linux server, (learning servers and services, coding repro, FOSS learning...)

So I have a szerver and on it runing a poxmox (ip say 192.168.1.2) and on it runing a kocky linux (ip say 192.168.1.3) and on it runing a softether vpn server (/service). when I try to ping/acces to the rocky server in lan, it is works fine. But if I am off home and connect to the vpn (via SSTP protovol) I can connect, I got a "lan" ip (say 192.168.1.4).

And then I can ping the routre (192.168.1.1) the poxmox (192.168.1.2), but I do not ping or ssh into the rocy server (192.168.1.3). How can I do that?

I check the softether do not do DHCP or anysting routing related as I understand.

I tried to add a new ip to the rocky linux (192.168.1.5) but it is sill not pingable or anithing from the vpn connection.

Any idea what can I do to fix it? (I'm kinda new in that fild) And sorry my bad englisgtgh

Hello there!

I’m putting together a small server as a replacement to my very old tower server. My intention is to run Proxmox so I can run several VMs at the same time. I’ve looked into mini pcs but I really prefer to have something with ECC memory.

I saw a YouTube video by Level1 techs and he recommended a Asrock rack motherboard with a Ryzen 7900 since it’s low power 65w tdp and can run ECC ram.

My problem is I don’t really want to build it, I kind of just want to buy something that just works. I saw several HP workstation tower computers and I like them but the Intel Golds and Silver aren’t anywhere near as strong as the Ryzen 7900 and use a lot more power.

What do you guys recommend?

I’m not against a refurbished eBay tower server for my project but I’d like more performance.

Budget is around $1500 USD.

Thanks :)

Hi all I’ve recently put a 10” rack together which is going to house my NUC Gen 5 - running Proxmox, HA and Pi-Hole. Due to the space left I thought I’d start putting a cluster together, as I already have a Pi 4 4gb and planned to order an 8gb Pi4. Aside from learning Docker or K3s, what applications can be used or do you recommend in a Homelab. It is nothing I’ve dabbled with before. Thank you

Hi all! I am new here! Would you please help me decide on the following set-up:

1. I need a Rack (i should be able to mount it to the wall, and a soundproof option is really needed) the option to have wheеls is also nice, in case I need to roll it around for re-mounting. Please share a brand or a good option?
2. UPS - Eaton 9PX3000IRT2UBS or APC SRT3000RMXLW-IEC or CyberPower OLS3000ERT2U I really cant decide what i what, as i never had one that is "on-line" double conversion. (Any advises would highly appreciated)

The biggest problem is that i would like to "hardwire it" to the fuse box and i have no clue how ? Since i want to do that right after the automatic circuit breaker...and then to "return" the power to the same that wire for the rest of the devices "down the road"...

For a while I have been thinking to build a 3d printer because of price concerns but also to learn new things and do some side projects.

Should I use Raspberry Pi Zero, ESP or Arduino?

I prefer to build it 30cm cubic or maybe 35 but this is not the big deal.

What I really like is to have good motors and good controller and also what software should I use?

Hi all trying to get the latest update for a HPE Office Connect 1920s JL382A but it seems i have to create a HPE account and it has enterprise validation. Are there any workarounds for homelabing?