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I'm using a Nvidia Jetson Nano. It's basically like a Raspberry Pi, but with a beefier GPU. It's not extremely fast, but is decent as a web and file server. TDP is extremely low, 3W idle, 8W top.
https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/home-server
The other is my timeline thing. I love the idea, but messed up the implementation. It's a bloated mess that I dread working on. It should be a presentation layer for my /backup directory, not an opinionated backup solution cum data archive management system.
I plan to rewrite it into a much simpler project.
https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline
The last one is Syncthing, since a week or two. It's much simpler than Google Drive or the timeline thing's elaborate rsync setup, so it will replace both.
A while ago, I read that "a person's main task is not computing, but being human". This has heavily influenced my relationship with technology, including the tech I create for myself. I want calm technology that blends into my life, and self-hosted software is rarely that.
Mostly services just run native on Debian. Gitlab, a few websites, Nextcloud, Minecraft. All data is located in /data which I backup once a year since family pictures are not more important than my time.
It sports 4GB RAM an old 64 GB SSD for the operating system (debian) and three 2 TB HDDs in a btrfs RAID1 array giving ~3TB of usable space which is plenty for my own needs.
It runs the following services:
- DNS server (unbound + custom domain filtering)
- Syncthing
- OpenVPN client & server
- PostgreSQL + lighttpd + PHP for various small websites
- Samba & NFS
- Transmission (for linux distros of course)
I run a 486 sx with math co-processor running at 25Mhz 8 MB of RAM Windows 3.11
For small stuff I have raspberry 4b 4gb and 2 drive symbology nas.
I have gaming asus router axe-11000, but want to switch to 10gb Ethernet, and that will lead to upgrading nas too. A lot of stuff is limited by the fact that I’m renting so even dropping cable to fiber modem in garage was adventure
For storage I have
AMD EPYC 7302 in Supermicro H11SSL-i rev 1. hacked to use Rome CPU (as the microcode can be replaced in BIOS update, this saved quite a few bucks)
128GB DDR4 ECC RAM
2x 1TB NVMe drives
2x 14TB hard drives
Running Proxmox, Kubernetes, Ceph, a couple of game servers and my personal Docker passthough server (you can actually use Docker remotely, with the caveat that local mount binds are not available). In the future it will also run my Github Actions self hosted runner and a couple more CI workers. Basically using it as my Threadripper alternative (the parts are all decommisioned server hardware that comes in cheap -- even the CPU is quite cheap to say the least)
Synology NAS, plus a raspberry pi running Pihole. Not very exciting.
I also have a 16GB Orange Pi 5 with a 500G NVMe running some things. It’s surprisingly powerful.