Home LAB
Homelab enthusiast, is my answer to the question “What’s your favorite hobby?”. Ever since I bought my first Raspberry PI ( Model 4B ) and joined the subreddit r/homelab I have became a “homelabist” as some people might call it.
I consider my lab as a personal endlessly on-going project, since I constantly upgrade, update and maintain it! This page is dedicated to my homelab setup, including all about my servers in terms of hardware and configuration, network orchestration and more.
Disclaimer! Not all the details around the setup, connectivity, networking and versioning are included. This is not a network diagram!
The PBS server is running on an old Asus Vivobook laptop. The main Proxmox VE server is running on a Lenovo ThinkStation p520:
- Intel Xeon W-2135 3.7GHz
- 2TB SSD (2x1TB)
- 18TB HDD (3x2TB + 3x4TB)
- 96GB RAM
One of the webservers equipped with the latest stable release of Ubuntu server and is currently responsible for running my website (this website), which hosts WordPress with MariaDB on the side with regular backups automated to send an archive of the database trough a bunch of bash scripts to the Raspberry in Bulgaria. There is also a Cloudflare tunnel which is being used for the website’s exposure to the web.
The other webserver (the Apache), is a static HTML + CSS and javascript website that I made entirely with ChatGPT. It is the website of an organization for parties in the Netherlands that is owned by a friend of mine. It’s being used for advertisement and marketing of upcoming events.
TrueNAS instance is being used not only as a NAS device, but also as a cloud storage. External access to the NAS is only possible through a VPN connection.
For connecting both of the LANs (since they are in different countries) and my mobile devices I use the services of Tailscale, which I definitely recommend (if you are OK with using a 3rd party network). For the rest I use AirVPN as I find it full of useful features and I am a fan of the flat payments.
The Docker server is a Ubuntu 24 server, which I use for running service containers. It’s currently equipped with Docker and Portainer, which I am running homepage dashboard on.
