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- My Raspberry Pi running Alpine, workint as a ~~dust collector~~ home server
- My Ryzen 5625U(from the top of my head) laptop which I use for light gaming and work mostly. Runs Artix Linux
- My beloved Ryzen 3 1200, RX 580, 2 1TB SSDs + 1 240GB SSD + 1 TB HDD. Also runs Artix Linux
Has anyone tried running a Lemmy instance on theirs? I know it wouldn't be a good idea to run one for public use, but I'm curious if anyone has tried just for fun.
I’m thinking about moving my single-user instance onto my lab from DO. Either that or moving to a managed Kubernetes cluster in the cloud (that is prohibitively expensive though)
How did you get it working on DigitalOcean? I tried that and it was such a struggle.
Lemmy? Had to patch the docker config (pushed a patch to the main and docs repos already!)
Oh awesome! I'll try again. Thanks!
You might have to check those repos, I don’t know if the site has been updated.
It hasn't yet, but I see the changes on the repos.
Raspberry Pi 4 running home assistant
Intel NUC running frigate and a minecraft server
Custom built PC (i3-10100, 16gb ram, GTX1070 for transcoding. 24tb array with two parity disk, 2x 3tb ssd's in array for docker, os, etc) with quite a lot of storage running Unraid, which is my media server, backup server, and now my lemmy server.
Network is a mikrotik Hex S router and a netgear gigabit switch, with 1gb fiber internet. 2 Ubiquity AP's for wifi in the house.
How do you secure your lemmy instance on your home network? I'm interested in doing it but I'm unsure if a reverse proxy would be good enough security. My other public facing services run behind traefik and authelia, but I figure you wouldn't want lemmy behind any auth for ease of use.
Mostly I am depending on reverse proxy yes.
Otherwise there's not critical data on the box that could cause a problem for me if the server was owned and everything exfiltrated. Worst case if I had to completely wipe the box it would be annoying but not worse then that.
Hi! I'm Michael and this is my first lemmyverse post!
An old Lenovo thinkstation with 128Gb RAM, 512Gb SSD (x2), 4Tb SATA (x2) and 2Tb SATA for ISOs and backups. Running proxmox with VMs (Windows Server 2022, Home Assistant, Win 11 RDP jumpstation, OPNSense firewall, unifi controller and a Linux general purpose server). I have a dedicated server also running proxmox with a webserver, monitoring server (openitcockpit), meshcentral server.
Raspberry pi 4 as a backup and motioneye server in my garage.
A couple of other raspberry pi 4s doing things... Including 2 at my caravan running HA, Plex and general stuff.
Box I built around a AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, running Ubuntu 22.04 and a handful of qemu VMs (owncloud, pihole, checkmk, etc..) A hand-me-down qnap I keep threatening to put truenas on but haven't yet. A couple libre computer (pi alternative) boards. A couple tp-link managed switches.
On my to-do list are to deploy an old Dell mini as an OpnSense box to replace my router.
Raspberry pi 1: pivpn, pihole Raspberry pi 3: home assistant Raspberry pi 4: some leftover docker containers.. move in progress Mini pc (1tb ssd, 20gb ram): arr stack, plex, audiobookshelf, vaultwarden, mealie, photoprism, and some more Synology NAS: 23tb
Documentation is only in my head so far...
Feel this on a spiritual level. Although, I can tell you from experience now that trying to collect all the crap and put it "on paper," in one place, is almost more painful after the fact lol.
I used to run 2 hp proliant servers. One Proxmox and one truenas. Now it's just one old AMD PC running Ubuntu server with some dockers. My electric bill is thanking me. About to move it all to an Intel NUC and downsize even further.
- Little servers - 3 x Pentium D-1508s w/32GB RAM, 2 x 400GB SSDs
- Big server - 1 x Dual Xeon E5-2650L v3 w 128GB RAM, 2 x 100GB SSDs, 2 x 400GB SSDs, 2 x 800GB SSDs, 8 x 4TB HDDs
- Desktop - 1 x Ryzen 5800X3D w 32GB RAM, 1 x 2TB NVMe SSD, RTX 4080
- Cheap TP-Link 10Gbps switch
- Proxmox running across the servers, the 400GB SSDs are running Ceph, everything else in ZFS
- VyOS in a VM for routing etc.., 2Gbps symmetric internet
- Mostly LXC at present, in the process of migrating that to Hashicorp Nomad (running inside VMs) backed by Ceph
On the big server, what do you use the assortment of SSDs for? I get specifically having a good chunk of solid state storage, but im wondering if you're like me and just acquired them over time, or if there's a specific purpose in mind.
Mostly over time - OS on the pair of 100s, the 800s were for containers/VMs - this use is moving over to CephFS though - the three smaller boxes are a recent addition.
- Server: AMD Ryzen 5 5600, 16gb RAM, Slackware Linux, Nvidia GeForce 210, and something like 5 or 6 TB of space. Mainly used as a fileserver, but it also hosts my Matrix homeserver, some Fossil repos, and some other stuff.
- Desktop: Core i9-10850K, 64gb RAM, Slackware Linux, Nvidia RTX 3080, I think 2-3 TB of space, 4K monitor. It's a machine I originally got in 2003, and I've just continually upgraded myself in chunks it since then. There might be an original screw or cable left in it still - a real Ship of Theseus thing.
- Laptop: AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, 10gb RAM, Slackware Linux, 500mb SSD.
- Laptop 2: PineBook Pro with Slackware Linux.
- Bunch of Rasberry Pi 4s that are sometimes online, all running Slackware Linux. One's connected to a touchscreen inside of a 3D printed case and powered by a battery.
If you haven't guessed from the above, I use Slackware Linux 😜
Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian. Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Citadel, Pi-hole, Webmin.
Currently running a docker environment from a laptop with the following:
Firefly III - For budgeting
Seafile - For file sync. Was using OneDrive, but since it's not supported by Linux went with Seafile. Works great!
Keycloak - SSO
Cloudflare Tunnel - For connection to my services from outside without needing to forward ports, and to enforce SSO for platforms that don't support it.
PHP Apache - Hosting a few small websites
I had old laptops until yesterday. I now have a Lenovo P330 Tiny that I'm making my current server. Any tips are appreciated.
Intel NUC i5 8XXXX running promox. I run home assistant, frigate & plex. Data storage is via the NAS DS 918+ but I do run some of their packages on that too & a couple more on the router / network.
Home assistant is particularly useful for running a bunch of add ons that I’d otherwise need to run as separate services in proxmox like adguard
I have a Raspberry Pi B running Pihole, a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB running a bunch of services for personal/family use (wiki, nextcloud, paperlessngx, etc), and then a VPS that was running a bookwyrm instance and now is also running Lemmy :)
- Protectli microappliance running pfsense with all my VLANS/ DDNS/ IDS and OpenVPN to connect home
- Some cheap Tp link 1Gbe managed switch (next on the upgrade list)
- RS1221+ 8 bay NAS with 60TB raw (used to hold media to serve Jellyfin as well as Proxmox VM backups)
- Intel NUC running proxmox (Home assistant/ Jellyfin/ Pihole/ Whoogle, etc)
- TP Link EAP 660HD AP (most recent upgrade, and very happy with it, previously had been using OpenWRT/ Luci on a R7800)
Also hoping to get a server style UPS soon, which reminds me, I have to go check if there's a homelabsales community here :)
Nice setup, regarding protectli with pfsense, how much throughput do you get with intrusion detection set to on... Was wondering about protectli products and their performance. I can only make use of 1/4 of the bandwidth with my current thin client
I'm getting about ~800-900 Mbps down and ~15 up (a bit more than what I pay for). I did notice that when I saturate the sownly speeds, my CPU will max out and I'll start getting latency spikes to the point where the traffic stops on the network.
After looking into it and adding a buffer bloat rule/ limiter, I'm not having any issues. I guess that's the price of running IDS on 7 VLAN interfaces, but it's getting by. When I go 10Gbe I will definitely pick something a little more capable, but it's great for 1 Gbe
Thanks, I am paying for 1gbs up and down and wondering which Hardware would be good. Which protectli product do you have? I see some heavy price differences
In case you’re interested - pfsense has a plug-in that works just like pihole called pfblockerng it uses the exact same format as pihole lists too. I was already running DNS on my pfsense to this made more sense than spinning up a separate machine.
Thanks! I had tried it, but I end up going back to pihole for the GUI <3
I've got an aging Dell Optiplex microsff running OPNSense as a router on a stick, handling the house LAN. Then a HP Prodesk mini that runs containers on top of Rocky 9.
Free oracle ampere instance running Synapse and Onlyoffice DS for my Nextcloud instance, and Adguard Home (DoT&DoH) to block ads on the go. Not really homelab stuff, but relates closely... Probably going to set up a Lemmy instance on that one too, seems worth it if ARM is not an issue.
Going to try making a RPi 4B 8GiB + FreeBSD + 2 HDD ZFS mirror "NAS", though it's main usage is going to be local backups, mostly just sitting idle. Finding a powered 2-disk USB3-SATA disk housing that stops the disks properly (not with emergency head retract) has been surprisingly difficult. If anyone has suggestions for one, I'd be grateful. Probably going to have to write scripts to issue hdparm commands automatically when necessary.
A single MacBook Pro with a Core 2 Duo in, for now.
I have a relatively small setup, because of space and cooling constraints, but in that setup:
- Generic server with a Xeon E5-2697 v2, kinda old but it's still got 12c/24t, and 64 gigs of memory
- Around 40TB of storage space, of which I'm using roughly 1%. I'm not even a datahoarder, I'm just a storage space hoarder.
Everything I self host runs through Proxmox, either as a LXC container or as a RHEL 9 virtual machine. I also have a RasPi running Pi-Hole for ad blocking.
Lots of Proxmox users here! That's good to see. I'm also running Proxmox after using ESXI in my lab for a few years. Too expensive.
Around 40TB of storage space, of which I’m using roughly 1%. I’m not even a datahoarder, I’m just a storage space hoarder.
Save some for the rest of us, eh?
Sounds like a pretty solid setup!
I'm sure someone from /r/datahoarder is going to be coming along very soon that stored half the internet but I'm sitting at 123TB currently which is already excessive.
Using 80% of that space right now.
Intel NUC with a hard drive for local stuff (*arrs, jellyfin), but nowadays because I plan to go back to full-time motorhoming I fire up stuff on DO, hetzner, AWS, GCS, etc as required. At the moment just a Lemmy and general purpose instance, but I do pop up the odd gameserver I've dockerized on one of these services while playing with friends
Awesome! Yeah, my instances are currently running on DO, but it's pretty expensive hosting in the cloud when you have a lab at home. My internet here isn't very good though, that's the main thing stopping me from moving them on-prem.
I think vultr is actually cheaper then DO though.
I’ve just built my first NAS. I went very overkill for my needs, so bought 5x8TB drives, 32GB of RAM, a Ryzen 5600G, and 1TB of NVMe SSD storage to compliment my HDD space. I’ve installed TrueNAS and have plugged the HDDs into a RAID-Z2 config, yielding about 20TB of usable space, with the 1TB SSD being a separate pool for anything that can benefit from faster IO, which have generally been applications / VMs. Currently using it as a network drive for all my data, and am using BorgBackup to ensure everything’s backed up. At some point I’d like to get a remote BorgBackup repository going, but I’ve not gotten around to it yet.
I’m also using it to host a VM for my web dev projects I can access via RDP and Tailscale, and have started installing PhotoPrism for my photos, SyncThing for my dev projects (so I can continue coding across my PC and laptop seamlessly), and eventually I’d like to get Plex / Jellyfin going, though I already have a setup going via WhatBox.
Awesome, that's a good chunk of storage!
Speaking of mass SSD storage, if you play a lot of Steam games, have you looked at setting up an iSCSI target on the SSD to hold your games? I did that for a while, but when I re-aranged my rack a while ago I lost 10gb to my desktop (needed the card elsewhere). Was a pretty performant setup though, all things considered.
Can’t say I have. Have you got any resources I could look into to get started?
Intel nuc
- homeassistant
- mqtt
- rtl433
- piper
- portainer
- zigbee2mqtt
- esphome
- calibre
- jellyfin
- doods
- pihole
- adguard
- valheim and other game servers Synology nas
- caldav
- redundant pihole
- files hosting
- unificontroller Older thin client
- opnsense with wireguard Unifi Switches and APs
I've moved to technitium DNS nowadays. I found that it works better for me then AGH.