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Things I self host

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Introduction

I always had an interest in servers and server hardware. I have been building servers for a long time now and I have a lot of experience with a lot of hardware. I will list some of my personal favorites in my home lab.

Some of the projects I selfhost

Nas

This server is used to backup my files from my others servers and my laptop and desktop, using roughly around 6tb of storage. The hard drives are a bit old but this server is also getting backed up to spare hdds I have bought. Most of this is done through magic, crontabs and rsync.

  • i5 4670K
  • 16gb DDR3
  • Roughly 10tb of storage (raid 6)
  • 4u rackmount case
  • Able to fit 16 hard drives (backplane)
  • 250 ssd for boot and cache
  • Running FreeNAS

The specs are a bit outdated but this server is build with parts from my last computer. It’s not runnning 24/7 and I only turn it on to backup everything in my home.

VM Server

I bought a Dell Poweredge R410 for around 150 Euros on marketplace. It came with the following specs but as of now its collecting dust in my closet. It is loud and consumes a lot of power. I will probably use it for something else in the future. I don’t recomend getting a r410 unless you can put in a different room. I used this server as a KVM server running various VM’s. Mainly used for testing proxmox and other hypervisors.

  • 2x Intel Xeon X5670
  • 24GB DDR3 ECC
  • 146GB 10k SAS (Raid 1)
  • 1x 1TB 7.2k SAS
  • iDrac for remote managment even though I have pshyical access to it.

Raspberry Pi 4

It might sound a bit silly to consider a Raspberry pi 4 a server but with its low power consuption it is an ideal VPN and PiHole server for my needs. I use the vpn connection to acess my home network from a remote location.

Honorables mentions

I did buy an old Dell Poweredge 1950 back in 2015 and left it at my highschool, it was used for display since it looked cool. I don’t remember the exact specs but it came with a pentium.

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