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9 Year Homelab history in pictures

Since 2012 I have been interested in servers and networking, and started running them at home. Here is a history of changes over the years I don't have full explanations of everything, but ill try to mention things as I go. You will have to excuse the poor

Traefik Reverse-Proxy Setup with Let's Encrypt in Docker

Traefik Reverse-Proxy Setup with Let's Encrypt in Docker

I am using Traefik together with Let's Encrypt to have automatic reverse proxy setup with valid SSL certs for my Docker containers. Here is how I set it up First, make sure that port 80 and 443 are not being used by any other containers on your Docker

What Virtual Machines Am I Running?

What Virtual Machines Am I Running?

Almost all of the servers in my homelab run inside virtual machines, here are all of them (Subject to change, very quickly...) Everything runs under ESXi 6.7 and is managed by vCenter Server 6.7 via the appliance. I have two ESXi hosts, one at home and one which

Homelab power upgrade

Homelab power upgrade

I recently upgraded the UPS equipment in my lab. I moved from a single APC SMT1000RM2U and added a SMX1500RM2U and another one of the CyberPower PDU15M2F10R PDU's This brings the setup to the following: UPS01 - SMT1000RM2U with APC AP9631 Network Card UPS02 - SMX1500RM2U with APC

10G SFP+ Mellanox ConnectX-2 in Synology DS1817+

10G SFP+ Mellanox ConnectX-2 in Synology DS1817+

This will be a short one, but there is almost no information out there about these cards in the Synology DS1817+ As of Jan 2020, this still works fine. I am running 6.2.2 with no issue I wanted to get a cheap 10G SFP+ card for my DS1817+

My All-in-one colocated ESXi server

My All-in-one colocated ESXi server

I have a 1u Supermicro server colocated in a datacenter. I mainly use it for DR, Backups and hosting services which need to be on 24/7/365. Those services include this very blog, and my Nextcloud instance among other things. The datacenter is only a 10 minute drive away

Ruckus R510 Home Install

Ruckus R510 Home Install

I recently replaced my cursed Ubiquiti UniFi AP-AC Pro with a Ruckus R510 I got New on eBay for $150 Initially I had issues with my original Unifi AP, then I upgraded to the AP Pro which also had issues, and then I got the AP-AC Pro which had even

My overkill 1u pfSense build

My overkill 1u pfSense build

Ever since my Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 3 died a few years ago, I have been running pfSense. I used to run it in a virtual machine under ESXi, however I wanted a physical box. This is what I have ended up with over a few years of changes This is its