Homelab

HOME INFRASTRUCTURE

Homelab

Old enterprise hardware, self-hosted services and a completely reasonable amount of tinkering.

Built for learning, experimenting, hosting my own stuff and occasionally fixing the things I broke myself.

SERVERS

4

SERVICES

8+

UPTIME

24/7-ish

TOTAL MEMORY

512 GB

THE MACHINES

Hardware

Old enterprise servers, custom builds and a few pieces of infrastructure keeping the whole thing alive.

COMPUTE

HP PROLIANT · 1U

DL360 Gen8

Compact compute node for virtual machines, containers and general-purpose workloads.


CPU

48 cores

MEMORY

256 GB RAM

ROLE

Compute

STATUS

● Online

HP PROLIANT · 2U

DL380 Gen8

The larger sibling with more room for storage, memory and future ideas.


CPU

48 cores

MEMORY

128 GB RAM

ROLE

Compute / Storage

STATUS

● Online

CUSTOM BUILD · NODE 01

Gigabyte MJ11-EC1

Custom-built server based on a Gigabyte MJ11-EC1 platform.

MEMORY

64 GB RAM

TYPE

Custom build

CUSTOM BUILD · NODE 02

Gigabyte MJ11-EC1

Second custom-built node using the same Gigabyte MJ11-EC1 platform.

MEMORY

64 GB RAM

TYPE

Custom build

NETWORK & POWER

POWER

APC Smart-UPS 1500VA LCD RM

Rack-mounted UPS keeping the lab alive through short power interruptions and giving everything enough time to shut down properly when things get serious.

UPS · 1500VA · RACKMOUNT

NETWORK

2× Cisco SG300-52P

Two 52-port managed PoE switches handling the wired side of the homelab network.

2× · 52 PORTS · MANAGED · POE

WHAT ACTUALLY RUNS HERE

Self-hosted services

The useful part of the lab.

Immich

Private photo & video library.

PHOTOS · PRIVATE

Paperless-ngx

Documents, OCR and searchable archives.

DOCUMENTS · OCR

Dawarich

Private location history and timeline.

LOCATION · PRIVATE

DokuWiki

Documentation, notes and things I will otherwise forget.

WIKI · DOCS

TubeArchivist

A local archive for YouTube videos worth keeping.

VIDEO · ARCHIVE

Plex

Movies, shows and my excuse for needing more storage.

MEDIA · STREAMING

Checkmk

Monitoring everything so I know exactly what broke.

MONITORING · ALERTS

Paseo

Another self-hosted service living somewhere in the lab.

SELF-HOSTED · HOMELAB

And counting…

There is always room for one more container.

IMPORTANT METRICS

Fun facts

POWER CONSUMPTION

⚡ yes.

NOISE LEVEL

🔊 also yes.

STORAGE

Never enough.

MAINTENANCE WINDOW

Whenever I break something.

DASHBOARDS

Too many.

WHY?

Because I can.


Like every homelab, this page is probably already slightly outdated.