My home lab

A Home-lab is a sort of “micro datacenter” wich you create in your home.
It’s used to self host services like cloud storage, smart home applications, and also games servers (for the most common ones)

Config

I started my home lab with only one little supermicro rack server,
but i now have upgraded with another micro-server from Minisforum and an old HP for backups. Also, since I love physics, I chose their names on the periodic table 🙂

Bismuth server (Gateway + storage):

  • Brand: SuperMicro
  • CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 (8) @ 3.700GHz
  • Memory: 32GB DDR3 non ECC
  • OS: Debian ❤

Hydrogene server (main):

  • Brand: MinisForum
  • CPU: Intel i9-12900 (20)
  • Memory: 64GB DDR4 non ECC
  • OS: Proxmox Virtual Environement

I also have a little HP for the PVE backups.

Index

Okay cool, but what do I have on this ?

On the Hydrogene server, I have a lot of Virtual Machines (All of them are debian)
And I have setup all of those services:

NextCloud

Pterodactyl panel
(The panel is on separated VM from the nodes, 2 nodes on 2 separated disks with different speeds)

MariaDB
(A dedicated server for all my databases)

WordPress

VaultWarden
(A fork of Bitwarden in rust, compatible with every bitwarden clients, but its less resource intensive)

Wazuh

Here the main tools i uses :

Caddy as a Reverse-proxy and a web server for some API

Docker
(I only use it for discord bot and games servers)

Apache
(Don’t ask why not Nginx, I know…)

Redis





(Debian > Ubuntu server)