Home Lab Beginners guide
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Home Lab Beginners guide
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#3what would be the typical use of such a lab?
Why are so many different components needed?
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#4Unless you simply want to play with all the various bits of hardware, a standard PC tower will be more power efficient and save a lot of room. I use that with unRaid and a simple router and switch and it's power efficient, doesn't make much noise, cheaper, and takes up much less room.
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#5what would be the typical use of such a lab? Why are so many different components needed?
Typical use for mine case - is to test things before deploy somewhere else.
For example - Proxmox, XCP-ng, VMWare ESXi, Kubernetes, docker, etc, etc. All this require knowledge and experience.
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#6Since last year I’ve been configuring and maintaining my homelab setup and it is just amazing.
I’ve learned so much about containers, virtual machines and networking. Some of the self hosted applications like paperless-ngx [1] and immich [2] are much superior in terms of features than the proprietary cloud solutions.
With the addition of VPN services like tailscale [3] now I can access my homelab from anywhere in the world.
The only thing missing is to setup a low powered machine like NUC or any mini PC so I can offload the services I need 24/7 and save electricity costs.
If you can maintain it and have enough energy on weekends to perform routine maintenance and upgrades. I would 100% recommend setting up your own homelab.
[1] https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/ [2] https://immich.app/ [3] https://tailscale.com/
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#7what would be the typical use of such a lab? Why are so many different components needed?
Personally I run frigate, gitea, jellyfin, file storage, and a bunch of other minor test environments.
I find it highly convenient personally, I have a data cap so moving large stuff files around happens over 10gbe locally instead of over the internet to aws or whatever. It's also all mine so from a security and privacy perspective it has a lot of advantages.
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#8what would be the typical use of such a lab? Why are so many different components needed?
Depending on your use case some of the components might not be required like a discrete GPU.
You can start self hosting on a mini PC if you want.
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#9I get an electronics workbench or a woodworking workshop, but I still don’t quite understand the purpose of this „home lab“. You can just run stuff on your laptop, or a mini computer in some corner if it’s supposed to run 24/7?
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#10The article is good, but it is intimidating buy its size and scope. A homelab could be a single NUC on a desk. I have one with 64GB RAM and it could fit so so many things. NUCs are very efficient to run 24/7, but become noisy with sustained CPU load. For that one could grow the setup with OptiPlex or Precision Tower (can haz ECC) SFF from eBay. These Dell SFFs are very good, quite small yet proper desktops/servers with proper quiet fans, could fit 10G Mellanox 3 cards (also from eBay for $40), and you could stack one on top of another horizontally. Don't go older than OptiPlexes with 12th gen CPUs, electricity and space they take could become a constraint. The used ones with i5-12500 are already very cheap. With LGA1700 one could put i9-14900 (non-K) there if needed.