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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • I know everyone has their own opinions of them but I’m a fan for what they are. Right now I have 3 of them that I’ve gathered over the years (one with ESXi hosting my firewall, one with TrueNas for backups, and one with ProxMox for a few LXCs).

    Overall, they are great little boxes, I had three of them in my living room for years when I was renting and they were pretty much completely silent after boot. The dual core celeron that comes with it works, but can be upgraded to a Xeon e3-1265l v2 (quad core + HT) for $25-50. RAM I think maxes at 16GB, but if you want a box to run a dozen light services or so, its not a bad box (insanely quiet and pretty power efficient).


  • Mine is definitely a hobby… possibly a borderline addiction. I am an IT person by day and then selfhost a bit at home. Most of my equipment is good old eBay specials (R720xd, R610), or just accumulated over the years (a few HP Microservers, RAID enclosures, etc).

    The uptime is decent but my ISP isn’t great, plus one of the servers has been having issues so until I find a few hours to focus on it, it is not something I would consider “acting like a paid IT”.

    Not to make myself sound like a bad IT person, but my homelab is held together with hope and scripts to recover when it goes down. One day I’ll cluster some lower power proxmox systems with portainer and ensure everything important has a way to fail over and backed up offsite (no, I’ll probably just take a nap if I get a free afternoon lol).

    Sometimes people in these communities don’t realize how they come off, tone is hard over text, and I’m just as bad in person (thankfully I work remote most days).


  • Late to the party and after reading through some of these setups I may have to expand mine soon (it never ends does it?), here is what I have right now.

    Unraid (Dell R720XD, dual Xeon E5-2670 v2, 64GB RAM, 12 x 6TB in 12 disk array with 2 parity disks, 800GB SSD cache pool)

    -NextCloud

    -Plex

    -Emby

    -Gitea

    -Backrest

    -MariaDB

    -Netbootxyz

    -Trillium

    -Traccar

    -Vaultwarden

    -Adguard-Home

    -Unifi

    -Homebox

    -Nessus

    -Headscale

    -Collabora

    -*arrs

    -Jupterlab

    -Mealie

    -SearXNG

    -IT-Tools

    -EmulatorJS

    -Youtube-DL-Material

    Proxmox (old Intel server S2600WT2, dual Xeon E5-2620 V2, 768GB RAM, 5 x 2TB disks):

    -Zap2XML

    -Immich

    -Mumble

    -NextPVR

    -Stirling-PDF

    -WebTop

    -Frigate

    -MCServer (gameserver)

    -SDTDServer (gameserver)

    -SFServer (gameserver)

    There are some other things floating around in my homelab that aren’t really ‘selfhosted’ things, just important to the home network:

    3 HP Microserver Gen8’s

    -x1 with ESXi hosting pfSense

    -x2 with TrueNas Scale for backups

    R610 with ESXi for a few remote desktops and Home Assistant (which I’m sure I’ll move to docker at some point).


  • Oh man, that would suck. I do not ever use an external USB port for that exact reason! Aside from a few desktops and laptops around the house all my equipment has an internal USB port for the purpose of a boot drive (I always assumed that was the reason).

    All production stuff needs backups. Personally I try to keep boot device backups saved to another device as an image so if one goes down, I can clone it to a USB real quick and restore the blink to the lights; ideally I should also keep them off site, but I don’t like to use cloud providers (tin foil hat and all).


  • I have a few servers that have been booting from USB for years. Two of my old freenas boxes (now just hosting backups of data from unraid), have been booting off the same USB sticks for almost 10 years now. In addition to the freenas boxes I use internal USB drives on Unraid, ProxMox, and ESXi hosts (had to try them all).

    Its a risk, but having a cloned USB as a backup can mitigate it a bit.