Started in 2020 with trueNAS for media access , the times when I was amazed with accessing media on network, discovering smb ftp protocols existence, then slowly grinding on truenas.

Then travel made another requirement for raspberry pi having dietPi-OS setup with ease of install, trying PiMox on a 4g ram with great bottlenecks.

RPI Server

Used to run dietpi-os on this one for smb share, docker running basic stuff like pihole, octoprint, jellyfin, esphome.

Dietpi as it is the lightest distro for pi and quite nice for me when I wanted stuff to be set quick without any much configuration.

Homlab

Homelab

Node 1 :#

  • CPU : Ryzen 9 5700x
  • RAM: 160GB
  • 16TB - 4TB Split
  • NVME - 1TB (2) - Proxmox . Gallery

FileSystem : [mergerfs](/project/hard-drive Drive')

Used to have zfs but required more storage without spending money, so started having a great backup system instead of redundant drives which I’ll be discussing in another post.

Now having a great proxmox nodes , Listing the major purposes for which they’re being used:

  • Media - Sonarr, Radarr, Jellyfin , Prowlarr
  • Immich - The great tool everyone should host, got the separate 1TB nvme binded with zfs on host, transferred to vm with smb.
  • CouchDB : Notes mount for obsidian , using the livesync feature for clients sync.
  • Caddy : Reverse proxying all the services , had this setup in a separate container for network isolation.
  • Tailscale - Twingate : Tailscale due to its stability , twingate to reduce bottleneck - great speed - using it for media server.
  • Lazydocker - Great tui for managing docker containers.
  • NTFY - Notification server for alerts , had this used greatly for temperature checks weekly and other stuff.

Node 2#

  • CPU: Ryzen 5 5600G
  • RAM: 32G
  • 1tb nvme, 256g ssd

Running 2 vm for now :#