My Homelab A Couple Years In R Homelab I've gotten by. i haven't tasted the freedom of a less restrictive router yet. i'm still with my parents, and dad doesn't want a more complicated router, and i've been able to do just about everything i've needed to do. Almost exactly a year ago i started venturing into the world of home servers as i've collected a bit of old kit over the years and needed a distraction from my degree.
Upgraded My Homelab R Homelab I am looking to get started on a home server and gain a better understanding of this stuff before i start building our new house in a couple years. i'm looking for some help on how to best get started, but also how to best scaled up to what i want to be able to do. Two years after my first homelab post, i went from a $200 thinkserver with 15 containers to a full server rack with two dell r730s, dual nvidia gpus, 10g networking, vlans, 60 containers, and a full observability stack. the rack draws about 380w and costs $53 month in electricity. My first foray away from a single server homelab was to a dual server homelab. i had my original lenovo rd440 that had been running things for years, and a dell r720. the rd440 stayed as my storage server (and still is to this day), while the r720 got proxmox installed on it and started running all of my applications. Welcome to your friendly r homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc.
My Homelab 1 Year In R Homelab My first foray away from a single server homelab was to a dual server homelab. i had my original lenovo rd440 that had been running things for years, and a dell r720. the rd440 stayed as my storage server (and still is to this day), while the r720 got proxmox installed on it and started running all of my applications. Welcome to your friendly r homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc. Not only did my lab start my career a decade ago, i can apply something i did and learned in the lab at work almost every single day. yes it's a money pit, but this money pit is paying off with mega interest now!. I'm hoping some people might share what they do with their home lab to get me some ideas on what i could do with mine. so for the past 4 years i've…. I think i started when i couldn't find an appliance that suits my needs and likes, so i built a custom nas. then, i wanted some services running 24 7, so i started building a virtualization setup for some vms and containers. I've always mingled with the idea of setting up my own homelab but beyond using it for learning purposes, i have always struggled to come up with viable uses to justify spending time and money to build my own homelab.
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