My homelab

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This hobby started out as a couple external usb drives for Plex running on my gaming pc.

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Corsair RM550x (2021) consumes 27 watts with no cables plugged in. WTF???

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It ain't much, but it's honest work. I bestow to you my first homelab

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Show me what you keep for no reason.

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showing off my liquid cooled server, Gavin Belson Edition

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Reused Galvanised Water Tank #Hax0r

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3d printed fiber management spools for my new 10 gig runs!

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My first ever server

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Simple Closet Rack Fan Cooling Mod w/ Good Results Using Spare Parts and Magnets

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Upgrading the zpool today

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A/C broke in my shed.. needless to say it will be a messy divorce.

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Progress on my NUC cluster enclosure

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Scored a home lab upgrade! Future labporn

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My girlfriend left me... I have a K8S cluster, argocd, longhorn, traefik, metallb, on 3 optiplex mff with proxmox... This is the start gentlemen, i'll post back in 1 year. This dashboard will be full my friends, I promise, see you in the rabbit hole o/

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This is getting expensive.

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Decided to do a security upgrade for my server room/home office

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Compact home lab

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./overkill.sh --cable-mgmt=in-progress

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Any love for vintage UNIX workstations/servers homelabs? It needs a SGI/Sun 42u rack for sure ;)

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I took quarantine as an opportunity to finally build a big boy network.

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Completed my tiny lab

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Fiancee is gone for the weekend, time to cool the server down.

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8 years with a homelab. Homepage is my dashboard of choice.

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Spent a good chunk of my evening making all these patch cables while watching Plex, idk how some of you guys do that as a career, but much respect for you and your iron fingers.

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Home is where the Homelab lives

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The beginning of it all, circa 2005.

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Compact garage cabinet

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My first hardware purchase just for homelab!

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My 5xRaspberry Pi4 homelab runs @50W, 40G RAM, 20Cores

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I don't have a rack yet, but I have a piece of plywood in my basement closet!

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The office which I keep my server has no vents and gets extremely hot with the door closed. What can I do about this?

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Tiny homelab for a tiny apartment

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Redneck engineering meets /r/homelab

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SSD Storage Server Rack Solution

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The Labyrinth - Added a patch panel, upgraded The Minotaur, and saved 50W of power!

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Potential Purchase for a K8s Cluster, thoughts?

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My little low power bookshelf lab!

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The beginnings of my homelab

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3D-printed ITX NAS - Homeserver Edition!

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This was the motherboard that got me excited about servers. DL580 GEN 9. when I saw this board for the first time, it sparked a massive curiosity that led to my current fascination with servers. Can anyone explain to me what this board does best and in what applications?

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My first lab.

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Fulfilling the dream I have as a child, +15 years later and lots of hard work I finally have my own server sitting at my home; couldn't be happier. It may not be much, but for sure it's honest work!

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My actual mini-lab

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I call it my clusterfuck my first cluster in the making

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Some major homelab updates have come along, so it's time for another diagram

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I have no idea what I'm doing: Homelab / HA / Gaming Office Rack

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Right, Who broke DNS again?

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New to this sub, just got this so I could learn on, my wife hates it.

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I joined the mini pc hypetrain!

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My 75 year old father just updated his network closet. Details in the comments.

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Scored this from work how did I do ?

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Joined the homelab train by getting my first rack

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Picked up for $100!

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My little network cabinet

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These are the services I use on a daily basis. What do you guys use?

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If you are ever feeling like your home lab isn't up to enterprise standards just remember this is what Google servers used to look like

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Just picked up my new clothes dryer, I mean baby.

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Finally got the network side of my Homelab done!

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Is it okay to mount my HP DL380 vertically like this?

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Happiness Corner

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Today's project ... Replacing CentOS

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Got these for free today

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Finally got around to centralizing my homelab

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Bought a beach house that had a media rack. Gutted it and went to town.

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Current homelab

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Got a rack, now cable management?

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Homeserver + Gaming setup

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I made a new desktop (from my 7 year old laptop)!

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7W Proxmox server

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A 15 y/o's Humble Homelab

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Am I apart of the cool kids now?🥺

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Business owner just gave me all of this, as long as I remove it from his office. Where do I begin?

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When a cable run across the floor is not an option.

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Sharing setups seems to be the cool thing around here

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Here’s the finished product of my 3D printed mini server rack.

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Built a thing this weekend!

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Scored a Fractal Design R5 for $60!

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Besides selling what do you do with your old drives?

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Finally got my desktop in my rack

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My First Take on Home Lab

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4 hours later I managed to cram all this nicely into a 10” network cabinet

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Remade my rack for a migrate to truenas mini r project

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I can't believe you got me into this

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There are many like it, but this one is mine.

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Updated Portable Lab

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And here I spent all that money on a pfsense device when this pizza would do the trick...

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Pretty new to homelabbing, here is my new closet setup, looking for tips!

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I think I went overboard with this 😅

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My Humble Homelab setup.

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Snagged this on the cheap from my university, any ideas what I should do with it? (I have no current homelab setup)

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The real cost of running a home lab.

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DIY Tiny Server Room

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Finally started the homelab journey

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Are these CPUs usable?

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USB Box of isos

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My pocket cluster

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Finally found the cloud!

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Network cabinet, basically running our house

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we finished the rack at the local hackerspace

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Finally made a drawing of my crazy homelab / house. Impossible to include everything, and the diagram is kinda all over the place. I realize now that I am somewhat a nerd and that I probably belong in this subreddit...

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New UPS battery

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Got the entire server rack for 25$!!! (Yes 25$!) 2x R720, 1x NX3200, 2 APC 2200 UPS and a Dell KVM! My 20 years old soul is happy 😁

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My low power homelab: 2 RPi, 4 RPI Zero, 1 Nuc & 1 Jetson Nano.

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19 MJ of new UPS batteries made of LiFePo4. Finally made the switch from lead-acid batteries to lithium.

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Homelab (WIP)

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I guess diagrams are hip and with it again, so here's a little update!

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Roast what I think would be a functioning 10G network

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What are those Half-Size SBC ? And why are they not more common?

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Successfully set up my first IPSec tunnel between two hosts running 10.X/16 pfSense VMs!

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Roommate moved out months ago and I seized the moment to repurpose his room

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Finished recabling and racking everything. Changed my mind 8 or 9 times. Hopefully it’ll stay in this configuration for a little bit so I don’t have to do it again...

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how many of you use a purpose built firewall/vpn?

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An easier (and less of an eyesore) way to run Ethernet cable along wall?

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New face for the HP Elitedesk 800 g2 SFF now on thingyverse

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Drawing some diagrams for my homelab using Python, maybe a little overkill?

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Simple Dashboard - https://gethomepage.dev/latest/

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I have been self hosting for many years, and just recently built an Unraid server. Here’s the backbone of my home network.

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Cat approves of my new joy!

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Custom mini itx server rack

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New Eaton UPS going strong in its first full week running!

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🎵 Just hold on, were goin' home

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What is this piece of equipment?

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Had an extra TV & Pi laying around, decided to turn it into a Grafana dashboard for my lab :)

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Two power cuts over the last two weeks - Any good APC recommendations?

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What do you guys think about the storage performance?

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My first homelab

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I present my not so power efficient homelab

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The Homelab of a Uni Student.

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Just got my first server, now to work out what to do with it 😆

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rest of Homeland goes to goodwill...

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New house first rack! Humble beginnings!!

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Small form factor homelab porn with active cooling, 72TB storage, 18TB external HDD and low power homeserver (R7-4800U, 32GB RAM, Proxmox). The Homeserver runs Jellyfin, Tandoor, Nextcloud, Dokuwiki, Planka, Uptime Kuma, Mango and Home Assistant. What would you run on this setup?

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Scored for the price of $free.99! How’d I do?

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I proudly present you the cheapest (40€), full size (90cm), rollable, server rack out there: the IKEA LACK Rack

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Super energy efficient and almost noiseless.

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A while ago I posted asking where you guys got your rack shelves. The answer turns out to be govdeals auctions.

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Upgraded: Linux Kernel compile under a minute.

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If you‘r responsible for Intune or Apple MDM, and in Home Office since March 2020 during the pandemic...

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Dell VRTX Rack 4x M630 ( 2x 2690v4 256GB H730 X520) = 1024GB 112 Cores 2.6GHz

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Anyone using these?

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Mobile Solar Homelab!

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Low powered quiet virtualization lab

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What's homelab's opinion on passthrough RJ45 connectors?

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