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A mess.
I only use the highest of grade when it comes to hardware
Case: found in the trash
Motherboard: some random Asus AM3 board I got as a hand-me down.
CPU: AMD FX-8320E (8 core)
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 5x2tb hdds + 128gb SSD and a 32GB flash drive as a boot device
That’s it… My entire “homelab”
Beautiful. 🫠
Bad. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 hanging from a HDMI cable going up to a projector, then have a 2TB SSD hanging from the Raspberry Pi. I host Nextcloud and Transmission on my RPi. Use Kodi for viewing media through my projector.
Pi4 with 2TB SSD running:
- Portainer
- Calibre
- qBittorrent
- Kodi
HDMI cable straight to the living room Smart TV (which is not connected to the internet).
Other devices access media (TV shows, movies, books, comics, audiobooks) using VLC DLNA. Except for e-readers which just use the Calibre web UI.
Main router is flashed with OpenWrt and running DNS adblocker. Ethernet running to 2nd router upstairs and to main PC. Small WiFi repeater with ethernet in the basement. It’s not a huge house, but it does have old thick walls which are terrible for WiFi propogation.
1) DIY PC (running everything)
- MSI Z270-A PRO
- Intel G3930
- 16GB DDR4
- ATX PSU 550W
- 250GB SSD for OS
- 500GB SSD for data
- 12TB HDD for backup + media
2) Raspberry pi 4 4GB (running 2nd pihole instance)
Only 2 piHOLES?
Not sure is this a joke, but I dont see a reason to have more than 2.
Sorry forgot the /s
looks like this and runs NetBSD
Services:
- OpenSSH
Why?
I don’t understand, why what my lemmy?
I have 5 servers in total. All except the iMac are running Alpine Linux.
Internet
Ziply fiber 100mb small business internet. 2 Asus AX82U Routers running in AiMesh.
Rack
Raising electronics 27U rack
N3050 Nuc’s
One is running mailcow, dnsmasq, unbound and the other is mostly idle.
iMac
The iMac is setup by my 3d printers. I use it to do slicing and I run BlueBubbles on it for texting from Linux systems.
Family Server
Hardware
- I7-7820x
- Rosewill rackmount case
- Corsair water cooler
- 2 4tb drives
- 2 240gb ssd
- Gigabyte motherboard
Mostly doing nothing, currently using it to mine Monero.
Main Cow Server
Hardware
- R7-3900XT
- Rosewill rackmount case
- 3 18tb drives
- 2 1tb nvme
- Gigabyte motherboard
Services
- ZFS 36TB Pool
- Secondary DNS Server
- NFS (nas)
- Samba (nas)
- Libvirtd (virtual macines)
- forgejo (git forge)
- radicale (caldav/carddav)
- nut (network ups tools)
- caddy (web server)
- turnserver
- minetest server (open source blockgame)
- miniflux (rss)
- freshrss (rss)
- akkoma (fedi)
- conduit (matrix server)
- syncthing (file syncing)
- prosody (xmpp)
- ergo (ircd)
- agate (gemini)
- chezdav (webdav server)
- podman (running immich, isso, peertube, vpnstack)
- immich (photo syncing)
- isso (comments on my website)
- matrix2051 (matrix to irc bridge)
- peertube (federated youtube alternative)
- soju (irc bouncer)
- xmrig (Monero mining)
- rss2email
- vpnstack
- gluetun
- qbittorrent
- prowlarr
- sockd
- sabnzbd
Why do you host FreshRSS and MiniFlux if you don’t mind me asking?
I kind of prefer mini flux but I maintain the freshrss package in Alpine so I have an instance to test things.
Thank you. I’m looking at sorting an aggregator out and am leaning towards Miniflux
Internet:
- 1G fiber
Router:
- N100 with dual 2.5G nics
Lab:
- 3x N100 mini PCs as k8s control plane+ceph mon/mds/mgr
- 4x Aoostar R7 “NAS” systems (5700u/32G ram/20T rust/2T sata SSD/4T nvme) as ceph OSDs/k8s workers
Network:
- Hodge podge of switches I shouldn’t trust nearly as much as I do
- 3x 8 port 2.5G switches (1 with poe for APs)
- 1x 24 port 1G switch
- 2x omada APs
Software:
- All the standard stuff for media archival purposes
- Ceph for storage (using some manual tiering in cephfs)
- K8s for container orchestration (deployed via k0sctl)
- A handful of cloud-hypervisor VMs
- Most of the lab managed by some tooling I’ve written in go
- Alpine Linux for everything
All under 120w power usage
How are you finding the AooStar R7? I have had my eye on it for a while but not much talk about it outside of YouTube reviews
They’ve been rock solid so far. Even through the initial sync from my old file server (pretty intensive network and disk usage for about 5 days straight). I’ve only been running them for about 3 months so far though, so time will tell. They are like most mini pc manufacturers with funny names though. I doubt I’ll ever get any sort of bios/uefi update
https://pixelfed.social/p/thejevans/664709222708438068
EDIT:
Server:
- AMD 5900x
- 64GB RAM
- 2x10TB HDD
- RTX 3080
- LSI-9208i HBA
- 2x SFP+ NIC
- 2TB NVMe boot drive
Proxmox hypervisor:
- TrueNAS VM (HBA PCIe passthrough)
- HomeAssistant VM
- Debian 12 LXC as SSH entrypoint and Ansible controller
- Debian 12 VM with Ansible controlled docker containers
- Debian 12 VM (GPU PCIe passthrough) with Jellyfin and other services that use GPU
- Debian 12 VM for other docker stuff not yet controlled by Ansible and not needing GPU
Router: N6005 fanless mini PC, 2.5Gbit NICs, pfsense
Switch Mikrotik CRS 8-port 2.5Gbit, 2-port SFP+
You play games on that server don’t you. 😁
I have a Kasm setup with blender and CAD tools, I use the GPU for transcoding video in Immich and Jellyfin, and for facial recognition in Immich. I also have a CUDA dev environment on there as a playground.
I upgraded my gaming PC to an AMD 7900 XTX, so I can finally be rid of Nvidia and their gaming and wayland driver issues on Linux.
Does Immich require a GPU or can it do facial recognition on CPU alone?
It can work on CPU alone, but allows for GPU hardware acceleration.
Nice. I gotta try it.
- Pico psu
- Asrock n100m
- Eaton3S mini UPS
- 250gb OS Sata SSD
- 4x sata 4t SSD’s
- Pcie sata splitter
All in a small PC Case
sever is running YunoHost
A 13-year-old former gaming computer, with 30TB storage in raid6 that runs *arrs, sabnzbd, and plex. Everything managed by k3s except plex.
Also, 3-node digital ocean k8s cluster which runs services that don’t need direct access to the 30TB of storage, such as: grocy, jackett, nextcloud, a SOLID server, and soon a lemmy instance :)
The Lemmy instance might need access to large storage.
My instance’s image cache is like 230GB. Plus a bunch more for the db. Can confirm storage is needed.
(unrelated question 😶 - anyone running pictrs 0.5 on local storage happily?)
Thanks for the heads up.
I plan on using digital ocean’s Spaces (s3-alike) where possible and also it’s intended to be a personal instance, at least to start - just for me to federate with others and subscribe to my communities. Given that, do you think it’ll still use much disk (block device) storage?
Might be time to familiarize myself with DO’s disk pricing…
- An HP ML350p w/ 2x HT 8 core xeons (forget the model number) and 256GB DDR3 running Ubuntu and K3s as the primary application host
- A pair of Raspberry Pi’s (one 3, one 4) as anycast DNS resolvers
- A random minipc I got for free from work running VyOS as by border router
- A Brocade ICX 6610-48p as core switch
Hardware is total overkill. Software wise everything is running in containers, deployed into kubernetes using helmfile, Jenkins and gitea
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Server - Desktop Tower
- Build - Intel server board & CPU based on old serverbuild naskiller guide
- OS on SSD
- ZFS ON 8 6TB DRIVES, YIELDING ~36TB of storage, recoverable with up to two failed drives
- Runs (via docker)
- Navidrome (webui used daily @ work, dsub on phone, feishin on desktop)
- Jellyfin (used almost exclusively locally on my TV, occasionally to watch with friends on web)
- Nextcloud (used occasionally, mostly backs up password files, etc or to share. Thinking about replacing.)
- QBitTorrent with glutun VPN
- Audiobookshelf - used frequently for audiobooks. Occasionally for podcasts. Often more convenient to use antennapod/pocket casts on phone for active podcasts)
- Kavitas - used seldom. Thinking about stopping. I like using obps on my rooted kindle to access my library.
- Changedetection.io -watch some sites for new products, etc
- Kiwix (local wikipedia copy I use shortcuts in FF locally to search for things)
- Homepage (local links I use on local machines to my services)
- Build - Intel server board & CPU based on old serverbuild naskiller guide
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Raspberry pi
- Adguard home & unbound - block most garbage for any traffic from my home
Thoughts - I’m considering downsizing. I don’t really need all that much space, and it can be a headache at times. With drive replacement costs on top of power (~$320 a year) I consider either going to a vps or downsizing to what could run on a small compute like the n100 or a raspberry pi5, etc.
Look for 5W idle consumption boards + CPU combos which go down to package C6+ state. HardwareLuxx has a spreadsheet with various builds focusing on low power. Sell half your disks, go mirror or Raidz1. Invest the difference in off-site vps and or backup. Storage on any SBC is a big pain and you will hit the sata connector / IO limits very soon.
The small NUC form factors are also fine, but if your problem is power you can go very low with a good approach and the right parts. And you’ll make up for any new investments within the first year.
Thanks! I need to look more into what the power implications of 8 drives is - they never spin down, so I assume they are a non-trivial portion of my power consumption.
That said, I’ve been considering upgrading to something recent and low power anyways. It would be a good opportunity to sneak in some useful features too,
- Maybe the possibility of transcoding a video stream
- USB3 (not a huge deal)
- Non VGA display (useful, for when connection issues arise)
- Audio jack (I could use navidrome jukebox mode!)
Which the old hardware wouldn’t support without adapters, cards, etc.
Responding to myself…
Datasheet reports 7.05 idle watts (~11w at active random read) so depending on what it considers idle, it’d be 8*7.05|11= 56.4:88W
Server clocks in at ~102W. Halving the drives would reduce the power by 27 : 43%
And in theory other components (motherboard, CPU…) must be using anywhere from (102-88) :(102-56.4)= 14 : 45.6 W.
Which vpn provider do you use for torrents?
Proton, some of their paid exit nodes support P2P
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https://blog.krafting.net/my-first-server-rack/
For a few weeks now, it’s been looking like this! (At the bottom there is a complete picture)
Plus a Orange Pi 3 as a DNS/Reverse Proxy server
Your link is not on https and asking me to download a .bin file. Extremely susEdit: link looks good now
What?
The same thing happened to me when I first tried to go there, but it’s fine now.
Also prompting me to download a .bin
OKey, so that’s a bit concerning… I’d love to get my hand on this “bin” file, I cannot reproduce the issue on my side… Also the site should be HTTPS only. I had a bug with caching recently that showed the ActivityPub data instead of the blog post, could it be that ? Are you on mobile, and the browser cannot show JSON data properly so it tries to download it with a weird name ?
I am on Android mobile. Firefox only prompts to download downloadfile.bin. Duckduckgo browser actually opens the file contents. I’ll post it here, since I’m getting it from public I’m hoping that’s okay. This is the content…
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Okey so the “bin” is actually the activitypub data… I don’t know why this is still happening… there might be something wrong somewhere, but where…
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OKey, so that’s a bit concerning… I’d love to get my hand on this “bin” file, I cannot reproduce the issue on my side… Also the site should be HTTPS only. I had a bug with caching recently that showed the ActivityPub data instead of the blog post, could it be that ? Are you on mobile, and the browser cannot show JSON data properly so it tries to download it with a weird name ?
I’m not really a networking expert so I can’t make too good of a guess as to what happened. I’m on the latest Firefox mobile release on Android and was accessing from a Colorado IP. When I originally tried the site, nothing was rendered. It was a blank page or just a redirect for download. I didn’t download the .bin. I clicked your link twice before sending my message.
Well, thanks for the follow-up anyway, I did some tweaks, and I hope it won’t happen again… I’ll see.
