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My Homelab Setup

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Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by cortesoft »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #33
linsomniac wrote: post #9

>Because all of my services share the same IP address, my password manager has trouble distinguishing which login to use for each one. In Bitwarden they allow you to configure the matching algorithm, and switching from the default to "starts with" is what I do when I find that it is matching the wrong entries. So for this case just make sure that the URL for the service includes the port number and switch all items t…

I wonder why each service doesn’t have a different subdomain.

That's what I do, but you still have to change the default Bitwarden behavior to match on host rather than base domain.

Matching on base domain as the default was surprising to me when I started using Bitwarden... treating subdomains as the same seems dangerous.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by Evan-Purkhiser »

polairscience wrote: post #59

A lot of people are talking about their backup storage solutions in here, but it's mostly about corporate cloud providers. I'm curious if anyone is going more rogue with their solution and using off-prem storage at a friend's house. Which is to say, hardware is cheap, software is open, and privacy is very hard to come by. Thus I've been thinking I'd like to not use cloud providers and just keep a duplicate system at…

I do something like this! I’m based in NY but my dad’s in LA. I put together an rpi5 + 5xSATA hat with 3 10TB WD red drives using zraid1 (managed to pick these up over the holidays before prices started going up, $160 per drive!). 3D printed the case and got it running a diskless alpine image with tailscale and zrepl for ZFS snapshot replication. Just left it running in a corner at his place and told him not to touch it heh

Whole thing cost around $500. Before that I was paying ~$35 a month for a Google workspace with 5TB of drive space. At one point in the past it was “unlimited” space for $15 a month. Figure the whole thing will pay for itself in the next couple of years.

Actually just finished the initial replication of my 10TB pool. I ran into a gnarly situation where zrepl blew away the initial snapshot on the source pool just after it finished syncing, and I ended up having to patch in a new fake “matching” snapshot. I had claude write up a post here, if you’ll excuse the completely AI generated “blog post”, it came up with a pretty good solution https://gist.github.com/evanpurkhiser/7663b7cabf82e6483d2d29...

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by hypercube33 »

c-hendricks wrote: post #65
pajamasam wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Impressive that all that can run on one machine. Mind sharing the specs?

I run similar (gitea, scrypted+ffmpeg instead of frigate, plex instead of jellyfin) plus some Minecraft servers, *arr stack, notes, dns, and my VM for development. It's an i7-4790k from 12 years ago, it barely breaks a sweat most hours of the day. It's not really that impressive, or (not to be a jerk) you've overestimated how expensive these services are to run.

Video is usually offloaded too to the igpu on these. I have like 13 vms running on a AMD 3400g with 32gb

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by globular-toast »

xoa wrote: post #18

I'll admit I've still stuck with the original FreeBSD based TrueNAS, and still am kinda bummed they swapped it. So it's interesting to see a direct example of someone for whom the new Linux based version is clearly superior. I'm long since far, far more at the "self-hosted" vs "homelab" end of the spectrum at this point, and in turn have ended up splitting my roles back out again more vs all-in-one boxes. My NAS is j…

I'm similar to you[0]. I still run FreeBSD TrueNAS, and it's just a NAS. Although I do run the occasional VM on it as the box is fairly overprovisioned. I run all my other stuff on an xcp-ng box. I'm a little more homelab-y as I do run stuff on a fairly pointless kubernetes cluster, but it's for learning purposes.

I really prefer storage just being storage. For security it makes a lot of sense. Stuff on my network can only access storage via NFS. That means if I were to get malware on my network and it corrupted data (like ransomware), it won't be able to touch the ZFS snapshots I make every hour. I know TrueNAS is well designed and they are using Docker etc, but it still makes me nervous.

I guess when I finally have to replace my NAS I'll have to go Linux, but it'll still be just a NAS for me.

[0] https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/homelab-2025/

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by globular-toast »

ryandrake wrote: post #86
xoa wrote: post #18

I'll admit I've still stuck with the original FreeBSD based TrueNAS, and still am kinda bummed they swapped it. So it's interesting to see a direct example of someone for whom the new Linux based version is clearly superior. I'm long since far, far more at the "self-hosted" vs "homelab" end of the spectrum at this point, and in turn have ended up splitting my roles back out again more vs all-in-one boxes. My NAS is j…

One of the most helpful realizations I had as I played around with self-hosting at home is that there is nothing magical about a NAS. You don't need special NAS software. You generally don't need wild filesystems, or containers or VMs or this-manager or that-webui. Most people just need Linux and NFS. Or Linux and SMB. And that's kind of it. The more layers running, the more that can fail. Just like you don't really…

Same with a router. Any Linux box with a couple of (decent) NICs is a powerful router. You just need to configure it.

But for my own sanity I prefer out of the box solutions for things like my router and NAS. Learning is great but sometimes you really just need something to work right now!

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by PunchyHamster »

akerl_ wrote: post #38
PunchyHamster wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terms making defined sense aid in conversation. Why do you need to dilute the term? There is nothing wrong with your NAS running 3 apps that you press update once a year not being called "homelab" but just "a NAS"

> Why do you need to dilute the term? Nobody is diluting anything. This person posted the setup they have in their home. It’s their homelab. It’s not diluting any terms for them to call it that. Their setup is just as much a homelab as somebody else’s 48U rack. It’s just a dick move, and against the rules of the site, to see somebody’s earnest post about their tech setup and post a shallow dismissal about how their s…

They are not researching anything. They just want to have few things running.

The whole idea of homelab (regardless of size) is learning first.

He just have home server. It's okay to call it that

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by akerl_ »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #97
akerl_ wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why do you need to dilute the term? Nobody is diluting anything. This person posted the setup they have in their home. It’s their homelab. It’s not diluting any terms for them to call it that. Their setup is just as much a homelab as somebody else’s 48U rack. It’s just a dick move, and against the rules of the site, to see somebody’s earnest post about their tech setup and post a shallow dismissal about how their s…

They are not researching anything. They just want to have few things running. The whole idea of homelab (regardless of size) is learning first. He just have home server. It's okay to call it that

Oh. Now the imaginary gate is “research”?

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by mvdtnz »

brownindian wrote: post #89
linsomniac wrote: post #9

>Because all of my services share the same IP address, my password manager has trouble distinguishing which login to use for each one. In Bitwarden they allow you to configure the matching algorithm, and switching from the default to "starts with" is what I do when I find that it is matching the wrong entries. So for this case just make sure that the URL for the service includes the port number and switch all items t…

Could also use Cloudflare tunnels. That way: 1. your 1password gets a different entry each time for . . 2. you get https for free 3. Remote access without Tailscale. 4. Put Cloudflare Access in front of the tunnel, now you have a proper auth via Google or Github.

Yeesh, the last thing I want is remote access to my homelab.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by wbjacks »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #14

I have something like this, in the same case. I have beefier specs b/c I use it as a daily workstation in addition to running all my stuff. * nginx with letsencrypt wildcard so I have lots of subdomains * No tailscale, just pure wireguard between a few family houses and for remote access * Jellyfin for movies and TV, serving to my Samsung TV via the Tizen jellyfin app * Mopidy holding my music collection, serving to…

Have you tried using snapcast to broadcast sound from your Samsung tv? I gave it a shot and could never get past the latency causing unacceptable A/V delay, did you have any luck?
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