Only use jellyfin. Have a list of things want to update… but it works for now.
Yes that is a laptop usb cooler used as supplemental placebo cooling. Also a pc fan I have propped up against the hard drive feeding into the pi.
Can’t recall last time used the ps4 or switch. But they’re there
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Can’t but join in the fun. Meet the Egg Mini. Does all sorts of humble servitude, but the coolest thing is a webserver only accessible via Wireguard through HAproxy running on a Digital Ocean droplet.
I feel like this should be a quarterly post. Really liking all these setups.
The range of sofistication in this thread is actually kind of breathtaking
Comment 1: a small raspberry pi
Comment 2: full rack with tens of thousands worth of hardware
I love it. I’ve seen shit that has literally had my mouth agape to the piles on the floor like little gremlins ater my own heart.
Fascinating
The small board you can see is a pi hole
I do have more tech elsewhere but this pile is comically ugly
Orange pi zero?
Extra points for not lifting the spagetti pile when you’re hovering.
Below, a picture of my small rack, which is located in my home office. Due to the selected components, it is virtually silent and still bobs along at only 26 - 28° C.
The hardware is divided into two Proxmox clusters. The first consists of the three Lenovo M920qs shown here and is home to my publicly accessible services and VMs, the second consists of the two Beelink EQ12s and is responsible for the internal services or those accessible via VPN.
Not the greatest or best Homelab, but for me, it fulfils all my needs and at the same time keeps the electricity costs down to an unimaginable level.
I host the following services on the public Internet:
- Ghost CMS
- Mastodon
- Pixelfed
- PeerTube
- Lemmy
- Rallly
- Nextcloud with Collabora Office
- Rustdesk
- Umami
- Uptime Kuma
- Vaultwarden
- Whoogle
- Minecraft Server (for my son)
Internally, I also provide the following services:
- AdGuard Home (redundant)
- FreshRSS
- Homepage (Dashboard)
- Jellyfin
- the Arr’s
- Linkwarden
- WireGuard
- Zoraxy
- ChangeDetection
- Forgejo
- MeTube/AnonymousOverflow/ProxiTok/RedLib/SafeTwitch/LibMedium
- Grafana/InfluxDB/Prometheus
- Homebox
- IT tools
- Mealie
- MiniQR
- Speedtest-Tracker
- Wallos
- Web-Check
I’m in the middle of moving so everything is packed up. But this was the rack before we moved.
Networking, 3D printer, black and white laser printer and a color laser printer, several servers.
I had home assistant, Plex, Minecraft server, 7 days to die server, and many other services.
Servers are Ryzen 5950x and the other is a threadripper 24 core.
The other side of the rack was HDMI switchers and some game consoles.
Going to miss the 1gbps fiber internet, we now have Starlink.
Top to Bottom:
- 48port Patch panel
- Cisco 2990 48 port Poe
- 48port Patch panel (future)
- Cisco 2990 48 port Poe (future)
- 24 port patch panel (spare)
- Pfsense 2.5gb eth minipc
- 4u server 20 bay (proxmox)
Bottom area:
- 2 mini pcs (proxmox)
- PiKVM and ezcoo switch connected to all PCs
- Couple of UPS
The access to the crawlspace isn’t great so the CrapRack tm had to be assembled in the crawlspace.
Yo dawg I heard you liked patch panels
The disks are the most uggo part. They’re a bunch of old disks of varying sizes with a RAID+LVM setup to make the most use of them while still being redundant.
lsblk output of the whole thing
saiko@vineta ~ % lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /Volumes/Boot └─sda2 8:2 0 111.3G 0 part /nix/store / sdb 8:16 1 372.6G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 1 372.6G 0 part └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5 └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage sdc 8:32 1 465.8G 0 disk ├─sdc1 8:33 1 372.6G 0 part │ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage └─sdc2 8:34 1 93.1G 0 part └─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5 └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage sdd 8:48 1 4.5T 0 disk ├─sdd1 8:49 1 372.6G 0 part │ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage ├─sdd2 8:50 1 93.1G 0 part │ └─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage ├─sdd3 8:51 1 465.8G 0 part │ └─md3 9:3 0 931.3G 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage └─sdd4 8:52 1 3.6T 0 part └─md4 9:4 0 3.6T 0 raid1 └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage sde 8:64 1 7.3T 0 disk ├─sde1 8:65 1 372.6G 0 part │ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage ├─sde2 8:66 1 93.1G 0 part │ └─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage ├─sde3 8:67 1 465.8G 0 part │ └─md3 9:3 0 931.3G 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage └─sde4 8:68 1 3.6T 0 part └─md4 9:4 0 3.6T 0 raid1 └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage sdf 8:80 1 931.5G 0 disk ├─sdf1 8:81 1 372.6G 0 part │ └─md1 9:1 0 1.5T 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage ├─sdf2 8:82 1 93.1G 0 part │ └─md2 9:2 0 279.3G 0 raid5 │ └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage └─sdf3 8:83 1 465.8G 0 part └─md3 9:3 0 931.3G 0 raid5 └─storagevg-storage 254:0 0 6.3T 0 lvm /Volumes/storage sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 romPretty clean
I’d rather not. It’s literally a Dell workstation machine from the mid-2000s. It’s like Wolfgang’s Channel kryptonite
From top to bottom:
- Allpower Power Station (UPS with around 4 hours of battery)
- Unifi gateway
- Unifi switch
- Unify CloudKey (Surveillance)
- Patch panel
- 1.5U media server
- Arock Mini running stuff like my Lemmy instance and other self hosted software.
I’m planning to move my Lemmy instance to its own 1.5U.
The whole setup uses around 80-100 watts.
Is that actually an UPS or just a backup battery? Can it passthrough the line power directly or does the inverter need to run 24/7?
In the latter case you might want to check how much power the inverter eats just by itself. For example, my Bluetti with 2 kWh needs a whopping 50W in idle just to keep the AC ports powered. Of course your unit looks much smaller so it should be way less but still worth measuring.
It’s the Allpower R600: https://iallpowers.eu/products/allpowers-r600-portable-power-station-600w-299wh-with-lifep04-battery-1?se_activity_id=185831162163&syclid=csti70imlv4s738bo1rg
It does do actual passthrough and I also measure wattage directly from the outlet.
So nobody is going to ask about the rotary phone?
It’s a GPO 706, which is a classic British bakelite phone from the '60s. I have it hooked up to a SIP trunk through an OBi 100. Right now it can receive calls but not make them because I haven’t gotten around to sorting out a pulse-to-tone dialing converter yet.
Be the change you wish you see in the world. :)
mostly runs jellyfin for a group of about 30 users (2 or 3 on at most times). runs alpine on bare bones. the box was originally filled with foam cutouts from storing iPads in a school district I worked at. I figure it’s 20tbs of storage and 16gb ecc is a welcome upgrade. it stays cool cause I cutout half the side and put an AC fan in there. future upgrades involve the Nvidia k40 card I have, but I need to design an active cooling system for it before it can be installed as that thing gets HOT
I’m impressed that you can handle that many jellyfin users
I just got 10 Gbit internet last week so I had a chance to tidy everything up. The ThinkCentre is the 10 Gbit router, the Synology actually hosts everything.
Also finally labeled all the mystery cables. Also replaced the proprietary 20V/12V bricks for the ThinkCentre and 10G Fiber ONU with USB-C adapter cables to keep things tidier.
Interesting! May I ask why you use USB port on Synology for Ethernet connection instead of ports on the back? Are they 1gbit?
Oh I love that mini toy rack!
I was so close to asking what the hell that thing was
messy asf, a proper hobbiest system
Your machine is going to get fried
What do you mean? Because no ups?
No, the case is open and there is stuff everywhere. At some point something will fall in and it will cause chaos
Oh, definitely. Waiting on a power supply for that machine. Using a backup that doesn’t quite fit right now.
