What is homelab?

A homelab is hosting services at home or in a server on some kind of cloud provider. Homelab can be as big or as small as you want it to be. I have seen people run their homelab for a laptop or have enterprise grade stuff.

My hardware

Switch

  • netgear manager switch

  • dell unmanaged switch

Server

  • Dell T410(128 Ram, 2 xerox process, and 14TB of hardrive)

  • 3 dell desktop(16GB of ram, i5, 500GB hardrives)

Services

  • Sonarr

  • Radarr

  • Libarr

  • Readarr

  • Jellyserr

  • Truenas CORE

  • Photoprism

  • Jellyfin

  • Metube

  • 2 x Pihole

  • pi-alert

  • Homeassistent

  • dozzle

  • Linkding

  • YABin

  • Nextcloud

  • Vaultwarrden

  • Lynx

  • Searxng

  • Authentik

  • Openspeedtest

  • Speedtest-tracker

  • Uptime-Kuma

  • Prowalrr

  • What is up docker

  • It-tools

  • homepage

  • PiVPN

Should you run homelab

The answer is yes if you do not mind the power bill. You can get a cheap and old desktop from ebay for about $100 and run proxmox or some other server OS. A good start is pihole to block ads and other trash on the internet

My future plans

A new gateway. I want to run pfsense because cox doesn’t allow you to change DNS server and some other stuff I want to do. Then probaly a NAS for backups.