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What’s everyone running in their homelab? I’m just getting started with mine, but here’s what I have so far:
I’ve got a M1 Mac Mini I’m looking to throw Asahi on as a more power Linux server.
2023-06-15 · 1 year ago · 👍 Ruby_Witch
🍄 Ruby_Witch · 2023-06-15 at 17:34:
Hi Alex, your homelab sounds neat, very network and security focused.
I'm mostly interested in power-efficient computing so the two primary machines in my lab are:
I'd love to hear how the M1 Mac Mini running Asahi works out, as the M1 chips are super efficient. I've been following Asahi Lina's work on the GPU drivers and it's been really fascinating to watch her (re)building it all from scratch!
🖥️ devalexwhite [OP/mod] · 2023-06-15 at 18:01:
@Ruby_Witch Love the focus on low power usage! Definitely something I want to improve at. Will definitely post when I get the M1 setup, it's such a powerful little machine.
🌙 dmoonfire · 2023-06-16 at 02:09:
Three cheap Dells running a 22T (85% full) Ceph cluster on NixOs with Calibre, Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, and Bazarr scattered between the three.
Pi-Hole on a Pi 4.
That's about it. Most of my other services are running on NixOs boxes in DreamHost.
Next projects are: put in a back plane for the Ceph cluster, get Home Assistant working, get some Raspberry Pis or computers for a NVMe metadata cluster, build a proper server rack.
🖥️ devalexwhite [OP/mod] · 2023-06-16 at 12:11:
@dmoonfire I used to have Sonarr and Radarr setup a while back, it was amazing, maybe I’ll look into that again.
A server rack is high on my list, well actually a building out a full server room first. Have plenty of room in the unfinished part of the basement to frame one out.
😎 Smokey · 2023-06-16 at 12:42:
I don't know what half those words mean, congrats you are a true IT nerd and your plaque is coming in the mail 😜
🚀 jsreed5 · 2023-06-16 at 18:03:
I have a single homebuilt "server" running Rocky Linux, with an eight-core AMD Ryzen 7, 64 GB DDR4 memory, and two 1 TB storage drives. I use KVM and QEMU to deploy VMs--I don't know enough about containers yet to feel comfortable running them as production machines.
🏍️ winduptoy · 2023-06-17 at 12:09:
TP-Link Archer A7 Wifi Router (16 MB flash / 128 MB RAM) running OpenWRT. That's it, that's my server. Serves Gemini, FTP, DNS ad blocking, Mumble, WireGuard, IRC, etc. My desktop runs a Celeron J4005. Do I win power consumption?
🖥️ devalexwhite [OP/mod] · 2023-06-17 at 13:27:
@winduptoy that’s so cool! I know about open-wrt, but does it give you ssh access? Is that how you got a Gemini server on it?
You guys are seriously inspiring me to lower my power consumption haha.
🏍️ winduptoy · 2023-06-17 at 17:47:
@devalexwhite yep, it's a full Linux system. It has a package manager with a lot of popular packages, but getting a Gemini server installed was a challenge. With only 16MB flash I couldn't install a compiler, and cross-compiling for MIPS with their virtual dev environment was too complicated and required something like 14GB download. Luckily, Go's cross-compile support is great and I was able to easily compile Molly Brown and copy the binary over.
🪐 Rochelimit · 2023-06-18 at 09:27:
I've rationalised my network recently. I have a FritzBox router with v7.50 OS, so it now runs a Wireguard VPN and a media server, and it hosts an HDD for network backups and media storage. I've Raspberry Pis for ssh, my Gemini server and PiHole DNS adblocker. All minimum power - electricity is expensive now for services operating 24 hours a day - and I have the router turn off the WiFi during the night.
☀️ mike · 2023-06-25 at 20:43:
This is my main networking equipment: