I did a double-take at this, and the implications of it became weirder and weirder as I read through it, since although packing 500 compute modules in oil and dropping them in a cellar should indeed generate a fair amount of BTUs, i have to wonder how useful this kind of relatively low-end and resource-constrained compute would be–there are no details on storage or internal connectivity, so only two things come to mind: serverless functions or a ready-made botnet.| Tao of Mac
It was a moderately exciting week work-wise (in a positive way), but a recurrence of the highly disruptive habit people have of booking meetings the very next day or early the day after (even when any sort of effective work would take a day or so to yield finished results) made it hard to, well, do anything at all…| Tao of Mac
If you’ve been following my projects, you’ll probably remember my Lab Rax system, a 10-inch modular and 3D printable rack I designed to make it affordable and flexible to build your own homelab. Today I’ve got something new to add to it, a set of 3D printable shelves for drives and SBCs (Single Board Computers), […] The post Turn your 10″ Homelab into a NAS with 3D Printable Shelves appeared first on The DIY Life.| The DIY Life
For many years now I’ve had at least one machine at home which would work as a server to host some apps. In the last couple of years I’ve been getting more into it which has led me to purchase additional hardware. I’ve decided it would be nice to document my journey so I’ll try to make a post like this - detailing the setup that I currently have with both the hardware and the software once a year.| Dizzy zone
📋 What I learned recently A few weeks ago, I ditched Notion and started to use Obsidian. It's not about privacy in my case; I'm just slightly paranoid about losing access to my documents due to any mistake made by a service provider, myself, or a third party. (I'm also backing| Péter Szász
As I’ve been writing about once or twice, I’ve recently upgraded my Wi-Fi after an attempt to use ISP-provided equipment to replace my remar...| Tao of Mac
For better or worse, one of the desktops in my homelab needed a new installation of the OS but could not read the bootable USB containing Ubuntu Server 24.04. I decided to take this opportunity to get some experience to install Ubuntu Server with using the netboot tarball image instead. This post documents the steps of how I managed to do it.| Technical Scratchpad
I wanted to share two observations that are interesting (to me) when visualizing one of the nodes in my homelab.| Technical Scratchpad
I’ve wanted to play around with the new hot smarthome standard, known as Matter, for a while. What is Matter? Simply put it’s supposed to be an interoperable standard for all smart home devices. Big companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google are all backing the standard. The hope is to avoid the classic xkcd comic called “Standards”\nPersonally I’m not fully bought into the Matter standard as I think it has a long way to go and it needs more features/support more device types, though ...| Random Musings
I 3D-printed 12-drive ATX case to use as a secondary Proxmox node in my homelab! It turned out fantastic!| blog.briancmoses.com
The new LCMD Microserver and AI Pod, a compact, high-performance homelab and AI edge computing combo with easy setup and powerful features.| The DIY Life
Le petit cadenas vert à portée de clics| J.HOMMET.NET
Faire et défaire, un slogan qui me colle à la peau.| J.HOMMET.NET
I recently deployed Planka, a self-hosted, open-source Trello alternative, to my Kubernetes Homelab. In this post, I discuss why I chose it and how I set it up using GitOps| Vuyisile Ndlovu
The NucBox K10 is a powerful and upgradeable mini PC with a 14-core i9 CPU, 3 NVMe slots, and quiet cooling, ideal for homelabs and media| The DIY Life
Expose your Tailscale hosts as Ansible facts. Make peer node IPs and tags available in your playbooks| Ideas.Offby1
A short intro to the idea of serving an S3 bucket on your tailnet| Ideas.Offby1
I combined a few tools -- lego and some helpers -- to get my UDM Pro's SSL certificate to renew automatically| Ideas.Offby1
Putting a single, secured webserver| Ideas.Offby1
Exposing web APIs on my tailnet to the world| Ideas.Offby1
Glitch is closing soon, so I've been working on my migration plan.| The lost outpost
This post explains how I improvised a caddy for the half-height drive bay. With a little bit of resourcefulness, building a homelab does not need to be expensive. I have been using this disk with no problems so far, but I am cognizant of its build and avoid leaving it running for long periods of time.| Technical Scratchpad
My media server kept freezing and crashing Kubernetes pods. After some digging, I realised the bottleneck was the old spinning HDD. I cloned the system to an SSD, swapped the drives, and the node i…| Vuyisile Ndlovu
I’m sitting in the Hungarian Railway Museum’s amazing park, under the shadow of buckeye trees, in the middle of a chirping concert from at least a dozen different birds. Halftime of the 2-day Craft Conference, I arrived a bit early to be able to finish this| Péter Szász
Summary of the AWS meetup I attended at FlexiWork Bulawayo| Vuyisile Ndlovu
I recently disconnected devices on my network from the Internet because of a restrictive UFW firewall rule. Read to find out how I fixed the problem.| Vuyisile Ndlovu
Du code pour monter une infrastructure complète.| J.HOMMET.NET
Vous avez peut-être lu les trois articles précédents concernant l'évolution de mon homelab. La série est loin d'être terminée, et voici désormais l'épisode 4. Ci-dessous quelques rappels des faits : * Mon homelab en 2024 * Homelab partie 1 : installation de Proxmox et Ceph * Homelab partie 2 : Création des VM pour k3s * Homelab| J.HOMMET.NET
Déployer des machines avec du code est une chose, créer un cluster Kubernetes en est une autre. Le cluster Proxmox et les VM sont prêtes à recevoir tous les outils nécessaires pour déployer des conteneurs. Pour rappel, je vous décris mon homelab et les différentes phases de création dans ces| J.HOMMET.NET
Pour re-internaliser mes services et continuer la découverte d'outil, j'ai décidé de créer un homelab. Le cluster de serveurs Proxmox est en place, de même que le stockage, c'est donc le moment de créer les machines qui vont contenir le cluster k3s. Rappels : * Mon homelab pour 2024 * Homelab partie 1| J.HOMMET.NET
Set up a Docker-based homelab with automation, monitoring & media tools like Plex, Sonarr & Portainer for easy management & scalability.| ZephrSec - Adventures In Information Security
Welcome to part 2 of my NUC cluster; in the first part, I explained how to deploy a cluster using proxmox and walked through the hardware setup and the rest of the connectors. In this part, we'll dive into building your own Active Directory Lab environment and show| ZephrSec - Adventures In Information Security
Explore my blog series on building a NUC cluster with Proxmox! Learn about connecting hosts, setting up tools, and avoiding pitfalls from my own build mistakes. Perfect for anyone keen on creating a home lab for testing attack paths and security tools. Dive in for practical insights!| ZephrSec - Adventures In Information Security
When I built the DIY NAS: 2025 Edition, I knew I was going to have an issue because I was out of 10Gb ports on QNAP QSW-308S switch and I needed at least one more to test the new NAS. I used this new NAS as an excuse to buy a MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+ (specs) and upgrade my 10Gb networking by another 5 ports.| blog.briancmoses.com
I simplified our backup strategy for our MacBooks. Backing up to TrueNAS using Time Machine and AWS and StorJ using Arq Backup.| b3n.org
See how I turned a basic USB-only printer into a wireless printer using a Raspberry Pi and CUPS.| Vuyisile's Blog
In the world of self hosted webmail clients, SnappyMail has distinct advantages over the alternatives. It's not only easy to deploy and manage, but also offers superior support for handling multiple email accounts. Whether you're a seasoned sysadmin or a Docker novice, this comprehensive tutorial will guide you through the process of deploying Snappymail using Docker Compose - whether in the cloud or in your own homelab.| Tech Addressed
Easily deploy and configure CrowdSec, a crowd sourced threat intelligence / attack mitigation tool, via this tutorial featuring a "Choose Your Own" format - simply select your Linux distro and your preferred install method.| Tech Addressed
Unlock the full potential of your Proxmox VMs with this one simple setting. Learn about the effects the CPU type has on performance, when it's safe to use it, and how to modify the setting either during VM creation or on existing VMs with this step-by-step guide.| Tech Addressed
Considering the release of devices like Radxa's Rock 5B, featuring the RK3588 SoC, might this be an opportunity for brands to capture market share, or mind share, from Raspberry Pi? If devices like the Rock 5B have superior performance and features with excellent energy efficiency, they just might.| Tech Addressed
In this tutorial, we'll compare Vaultwarden to Bitwarden and why you would consider using it instead of Bitwarden as well as everything you need to know to get Vaultwarden deployed quickly and easily in your homelab environment using Docker Compose.| Tech Addressed
In this latest installment in what has become an ongoing quest to find inexpensive Raspberry Pi alternatives I address the question, "Do inexpensive i3 desktops make good homelab systems in 2022?" Specifically, we're looking at systems featuring chips from Intel's 6th gen and 4th gen lineups - the i3-6100T, i3-4160 and i3-4160T.| Tech Addressed
Pi-hole's ability to manage local DNS records is one of its most useful yet least talked about features - especially in a homelab environment - regardless of if you're running just a few simple services in your lab or something more complicated like a Kubernetes cluster full of containerized services.| Tech Addressed
Like many technology enthusiasts, you might be looking for an inexpensive Raspberry Pi alternative - due to shortages and scalper like pricing from third party sellers. If that's you, allow me to introduce you to the Inovato Quadra - the "ready to run" alternative that's only $29 USD!| Tech Addressed
Which hypervisor – Proxmox vs TrueNAS Scale – delivers better virtual machine performance when compared with multiple VM core configurations in benchmark tests on identical systems? Do you think you can predict the results?| Tech Addressed
Why I'm trying self hosting| nielscautaerts.xyz
How to express group membership in ZeroTier rules| Alan Norbauer
How to use DNS instead of IP addresses in your ZeroTier Network| Alan Norbauer
Run zrepl on TrueNAS in a way that survives reboots and OS updates| Alan Norbauer
Run ZeroTier on TrueNAS in a way that survives reboots and OS updates| Alan Norbauer
Run Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) on a TrueNAS bhyve VM| Alan Norbauer
So after I set up my VLANs, it| astrid.tech
This is a continuation of my woes in overhauling my homelab.| astrid.tech
In the past week, I have made many changes to my homelab. Here’s a summary of| astrid.tech
Homelab is a place where you can store all your famil| Mudkip Mud Sport
In this post I’m demonstrating how you could use Hashicorp’s Vault TOTP generator and an authenticator to connect to a dynamic ssh port. This is mostly a proof of concept and not a production grade solution, so use at your own risk. What’s TOTP? It’s a Time-based One Time Password. TBOTP is probably too ugly of an acronym to have gained widespread use. I don’t know, I didn’t coin it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
While browsing my local thrift store, I stumbled upon a little gadget that I decided to repurpose: It was only $6 USD, so I thought it would be a fun project. I searched for ‘Disney Infinity Linux’ to see if any work had been done toward decoding it or making it work. I found various sources that suggested that Playstation or Wii versions work fine, but the X-Box version was challenging. Fortunately, among the 5 they had, one was the Wii/Playstation version so I bought it.| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
I’ve been exploring Thunderbolt quite a bit lately. As a follow up to my post about using Thunderbolt in a NAS, I recently bought a Gigabyte Maple Ridge Thunderbolt 4 add on card. I’ve captured a few thoughts, observations and pics here. Gigabyte GC-Maple Ridge| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
In this post I’m demonstrating how to create a high-speed macos volume using quantity 2 Thunderbolt ports and NVMe enclosures. This solution uses RAID-0 (striping) so the failure threshold is more than twice that of a normal standalone disk. This example is for demonstration purposes and could be useful for video editing scratch space, rendering, large photo sessions or similar uses. Obviously, good backups (RAID is not a backup) or a more reliable storage tier is recommended for daily use.| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
At home I run a lot of gadgets. A mix of computer servers, IoT devices and various Raspberry Pi projects that I’ve built. I always want to be aware of what’s happening with the home, so I’ve been using a notification app called Pushover. It’s a nice notification utility that can send messages to your phone or tablet, in addition to your desktop browser. The keyword here is browser.| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
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Watch local broadcast TV on Plex without an antenna. What is it? Locast is a free service that receives over the air (OTA) broadcast television signals and encodes and legally distributes them digitally across the internet. Using the program locast2plex you can receive this digital content and send it to a Plex Media Server. Plex will allow you to record, time-shift and save this content. It works exactly like a Cablebox / DVR.| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Grafana is a great tool for visualizing data. In this tutorial I’ll be putting annotations, or comments on points of interest overlayed on top of graph panels.| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Updated for 2021 !!! Update: I’ve recently added a Thunderbolt 3 PCIe card for easy 40 Gbps connectivity. Why another NAS/DAS article? There are a lot resources online for building your own DIY DAS. A lot of them contain good information but none of them were comprehensive for the DAS I wanted to build so I compiled the information that was useful for my specific 2019 build here. The prices linked below are subject to market fluctuations and timing, so some of the components I found at a gr...| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Tonight I was introduced to a Deluge exporter for Prometheus so I figured I’d whip up a quick dashboard for visualizing the metrics. Deluge Dashboard is a very simple way to display Deluge torrent metrics. It uses the deluge exporter to populate a Prometheus data source. The panels in this dashboard can be copied into more comprehensive dashboards for a single pane of glass view of your network transfers or it can be used as a standalone glanceboard. You can install the dashboard from the G...| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Grafana is a really great tool for visualizing data. In my homelab, I have obviously have a lot of data so what better than to use than the right tool for the job. Below, you can find some screenshots of my dashboards. I use a raspberry pi that just runs a full screen browser for viewing the dashboard slideshow in addition to a few other glance boards (DAKBoard, Monitorr, et al). Here’s the Gallery| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
I made a Grafana Dashboard for my Plex system at home. I feed various system telemetry into an influx database as the data source and Plex-Data-Collector for inserting the data from plex. Additionally, I wrote a python script for injecting logs from NZBGet into mysql. I then use Grafana to display the graphs. I really love Grafana and I’ve created several dashboards:| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Using Grafana with pfSense Update: 2018/09/13 pfSense has a plugin for telegraf which can be installed from the gui. I recommend this method rather than what I figured out below. I’m leaving these notes for manual installation reference. 2017/12/09 I put this guide together using information from various other blogs. This is current as of December 2017 and using pfSense 2.4.2. For this tutorial, you’ll need your IP or hostname of your influxdb data source and your username and password. T...| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Using pfsense for WAN Redundancy with Cellular LTE/4G I work from home a lot and I need reliable internet connectivity to workplace. As a result, I decided to implement a failover WAN connection into my firewall. I use pfSense as my firewall which combines power and flexibility with ease of configuration. The Hardware: NetGear LB2120 LTE Modem While researching options, I decided on the Netgear LB2120 4G LTE modem since it has Gigabit port(s) and can be used with external antennae.| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
I have a Dell R710 rev. II that I use in my home office lab homelab running ESXi 6.5. The R710 sits in my office where we work from home. Normally the hum of the R710 fans isn’t terribly bothersome - the 5 fans it houses run at around 3,800 RPM each. The noise is definitely noticeable so I did a little bit of digging into ways I could quiet it down. After looking into replacing the fans with quieter ones I found that I could override the system control of the fans and silence them that way....| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
I wrote a very simple little playbook for updating my local DNS records for my piholes. For me it’s easier than manually sshing onto each node and editing a file and restarting the service. Here’s the playbook:| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Pihole + Grafana + InfluxDB Dashboard I wanted to add the metrics from my ad-blocker, the great Pihole to my executive dashboard. To create the dashboard I used Grafana to display the graphs and InfluxDB a the time-series backend database. I use a simple python script to get the metrics from pihole and record them in influxdb. Grafana makes it easy to render them into a user friendly dashboard. Installing Grafana and Influxdb is beyond the scope of this blog post but here is the scipt that I ...| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Grafana + InfluxDB + scripts = Awesome I have many interests and some of them have metrics that are useful or fun to watch. For example, I have investment in Bitcoin so it’s nice to be able to keep an eye on it periodically. I decided to create a graphical “at a glance” dashboard for myself. I chose Grafana as the user interface / front end and InfluxDB a the time-series backend database to store the metrics. I use various scripts and applets to populate the data into Influx and Grafana...| Chris Bergerons Tech Blog
Description de l'installation de Proxmox et Ceph sur un même disque dans mon homelab.| J.HOMMET.NET
The Internet is a Dangerous Place These Days (Introduction) In this day and age, you really are taking a risk if you're not running some form of ad blocking. Heck, even CISA is telling government agen| Blind Not Dumb
Everything you need to know to get started with Tailscale in under 10 minutes.| Tailscale Community
A guide to help install PiKVM on Debian 12 x86| Nix, Scripts, and Documentation
Create a segmented network zone with Proxmox, OPNsense, and Tailscale in a new how-to video.| Tailscale Community
A couple of months ago I decided to make to move to [Jellyfin media server](https://jellyfin.org/) after being a long time [Plex](https://www.plex.tv/) user, here is why.| Nix, Scripts, and Documentation
Details of the cost of wiring my home with ethernet.| Nix, Scripts, and Documentation
Details about my homelab, check it out!| Nix, Scripts, and Documentation
FingerlessGloves adventuring through internet pipes . This is my blog about selfhosting and other computer technologies, why not pop by!| fingerlessgloves.me
I gave in to my impulses and bought myself a small single board computer to be my power-efficient home server, here's how it went.| ./techtipsy
Comparing the experience that AMD and NVIDIA can provide in a DIY cloud gaming setup.| ./techtipsy
A build log of how I set up my own 'cloud gaming' setup, including all the issues I faced and attempts to fix those.| ./techtipsy
If all you have is a powerful workstation...| ./techtipsy
