#homelab — Public Fediverse posts

I’ve also been meaning to setup and test a backup/restore process, so this is a good reminder I don’t have that now for my self hosted stuff.

I probably can piece things together now, but that’s not the same as having a tested backup process.

#homelab #kubernetes #learning #troubleshooting #selfhosted

Think I’m going to learn more about Kubernetes tonight. And not quite in a fun way: one of my containers, and only one so far, doesn’t seem like it retained its data after I took the rack down for maintenance yesterday.

All the systems were cleanly shutdown so the data should be intact, I just need to find it.

The new PVs are there, but empty, so I might need to see what PVs they *should* be pointing to.

#homelab #kubernetes #learning #troubleshooting

Buying refurbished hard drives from Amazon is a gamble that often puts your data at risk. Some sellers reset usage stats so an old drive looks brand new when you plug it in. I wrote a breakdown on why we avoid these listings and how to find reliable storage here: https://gwizit.com/go/r6w2eum

#TechTips #HardDrives #HomeLab

#ITGedöns
Einerseits schade, dass ich im neuen Zuhause kein Internet per Glasfaser mehr habe, andererseits bekomme ich im neuen Zuhause bei VDSL eine dynamische IPv4 und habe kein CGNAT wie bei Glasfaser. Endlich DynDNS für den Zugriff aufs #homelab nutzen zu können, ist schon super.

#ITGedöns
Einerseits schade, dass ich im neuen Zuhause kein Internet per Glasfaser mehr habe, andererseits bekomme ich im neuen Zuhause bei VDSL eine dynamische IPv4 und habe kein CGNAT wie bei Glasfaser. Endlich DynDNS für den Zugriff aufs #homelab nutzen zu können, ist schon super.

Today, I finally managed to get my VoIP phone set up on the network and talking to my mobile ☎️ ! The most challenging part was that the phone is actually so old that I can't even update the firmware—the file is over 1.5 KB! So, the phone uses the MGCP protocol to communicate with the Asterisk server, while my mobile uses SIP. We way almost qualify it as my first retrocomputing experience!

Thanks @h3rb3rn for your article: https://4noobs.de/viewtopic.php?t=41 !
#voip #mgcp #homelab #asterisk #retrocomputing

I've had BookStack running publicly for 5 years, the longest of any app I self-host. Time for a fresh look: a tour, an intro from developer Dan Brown, and a Docker Compose install with SMTP. #selfhosting #homelab #wiki

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/NxHRE4YNhWg

Officially kicked off my annual self-host user survey this morning, which consists of 45 questions across several topics (including a new section on AI!).

Last year's survey received over 4,000 responses - the goal is to hit 5k this year!

https://selfh.st/survey/2026-open/

#selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #opensource #foss #homelab #survey #privacy #fediverse #mastodon #server #sysadmin #devops #ai #cloud #smarthome #git #hardware #software #app #apps #docker #database #streaming

7 Sep 2026

I took advantage of a cool day to install a WiFi AP on the front of the house to provide coverage to the front yard. As I’ve been up in the attic a bunch, it was not much trouble to run the cable.

I also took some time to clean up the patch panel which had become a bit of a spaghetti mess over time. Unfortunately, there is still one cable run that had a problem, so I still need to troubleshoot that, but the rest of them were good!

Garrett and Randal being goobers in the kitchen!

Saryia and Rosalina are on clean up duty in the weed patch!

As it was a Monday, we also had all the usual fun with Music Lessons and Scouts!

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📚🔧 Oh, joy! Another thrilling tale of a tech bro's wallet gym session disguised as a 'homelab upgrade'. Spoiler alert: it's mostly about the crippling quest for more #blinky #lights and #bragging #rights. 😂💸
https://www.joekarlsson.com/blog/homelab-two-years-later/ #techbro #humor #walletgym #homelab #upgrade #HackerNews #ngated

My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost

https://www.joekarlsson.com/blog/homelab-two-years-later/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49965959

#HackerNews #Homelab #Tech #Upgrade #Costs #DIY #Networking

If you have a #homelab with storage, even if it's a #raspberrypi, the coolest, most useful thing u can self-host is prolly an #S3 storage server - of any kind, but the one i've been happily using is #seaweedfs (since #minio is dead).

already started using it for various things, projects. also using it as my backup solution now via #kopia. might drop #borg/#vorta - tho they're really nice too, just wish they cld hook up to s3 storage as well.

I needed monitoring and graphs for the few servers I run, so I installed Beszel and I couldn't be happier.

Very easy to set up, not as heavy and AI infested as Grafana or Netdata, and looks clean.

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel #beszel #monitoring #homelab

I will be attending KubeCon next month. This will be my first tech conference ever. Excited is an understatement!

#DevOps #k8s #learnk8s #cncf #100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfDevOps #kubernetes #technology #homelab

Question for those of you that use ansible for deploying/maintaining infrastructure in your labs/prods:

How did you take a manually-configured environment and migrate to ansible?
Did you reversed engineer your existing stack, or build out new using your own generated code (or other people's) and just migrate data?

#ansible #selfhosting #sysadmin #homelab

das wiki mit der kompletten übersicht über meine infrastruktur steht 😎

2 tage für was mein ADHS-gehirn in 5 jahren nicht geschaft hat
nicht nur dass ich nicht gewusst hätte wie ich es strukturieren soll (oder mich auf halben weg wieder umentschieden hätte), einige infos hätte ich schlicht nicht gefunden oder übersehen

ich hätte das übrigens nicht gemacht wenn ich kein lokales modell hätte dafür verwenden können - dafür sind mir dann die daten zu privat/sensibel
#KI #homelab #adhs

I've had BookStack running publicly for 5 years, the longest of any app I self-host. Time for a fresh look: a tour, an intro from developer Dan Brown, and a Docker Compose install with SMTP. #selfhosting #homelab #wiki

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/NxHRE4YNhWg

I was looking to add a new node to my #Proxmox cluster, but memory is crazy expensive.

I checked how much I paid for 64 GB of DDR4 SO-DIMM two and a half years ago: 183 CAD, or 114 €! Now, it costs almost six times as much. I should have ordered more…

By the way, it’s less expensive in Canada than in Europe…

So I’ve put off adding my new node… 😢
Maybe that’s better for the environment 🌍 😉

#RamApocalypse #homelab

#IPv6 confusion: can a router advertise that there's a #network on the other side? Without handing out any addresses?

I want to join 2 ULAs on 2 separate links: A/64 and B/64. The host routes between links and has A:1/64 and B:1/64.

This host is *not* the default router, so I can't set up the routes there and call it a day.

Is there a way?

#networking #routing #homelab

Vuoi film, serie e musica sul tuo server, senza dipendere da servizi di streaming?

Con Jellyfin 12 puoi creare un media server self-hosted: librerie ordinate, trascodifica, accesso da TV e smartphone, tutto sotto il tuo controllo.

Scopri di più nella nuova guida:

https://www.risposteinformatiche.it/jellyfin-12-docker-compose-media-server-self-hosted/

@opensource @linux

#Jellyfin #Jellyfin12 #DockerCompose #SelfHosted #MediaServer #OpenSource #Homelab #UnoLinux #UnoOpenSource

Finally turned attention to getting Immich up and running tonight. I like it, seems snappy enough with tens of thousands of photos imported.

The Immich website has a handy form driven page for generating a docker compose file so it took like 30 seconds to get it running once mutated to follow my way of doing things on my server (persistent storage, naming, cert proxy, etc).

I struggled a bit with using the Immich command line tool to import my photo collection and in the process of trying to figure out why --recursive didn't work, stumbled upon the immich-go project on github. It's also a command line tool and works very well; immediately was able to recursively import photos, etc. Compiles cleanly on Alpine Linux (ofc, it's just golang).

Immich-go has a migrate function that allows you to connect to one Immich server and copy the files to another Immich server (but no 'delete source' as far as I could tell).

I set up a second Immich instance on a different port and started to use the migrate function to finally start moving all the photos of my computer electronics and vehicle technical projects out of the whole household's photo collection. My wife will appreciate that. Ha. Managed to split out 2026-2025, only ~25 more years to go. Ugh.

Anyway, Immich (the server) and Immich-go (the CLI tool) are cool. Recommended.

Fun!

#immich #immichgo #AlpineLinux #cli #photography #photos #HomeLab #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

Finally set up proper backups. Three copies, two media, one offsite. I say this every year and this year I mean it. #homelab

Plex down at 3 AM, container healthy, volume read-only. Build a self-healing homelab with Prometheus, Alertmanager, and a remediation daemon in 2026. https://www.valtersit.com/guides/docker/lazy-sysadmin-homelab/ #homelab #prometheus #devops

RT @wccftech: Das 552B DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-Modell erreicht eine Spitzenleistung von 494 Token/Sekunde, wenn es von einem Heim-System mit vier NVIDIA DGX Spark-Einheiten angetrieben wird. 🔗 https://t.co/8wwLKWxSa2 https://t.co/8tdWtf1Vv7

mehr auf Arint.info

#AI #DeepSeek #HomeLab #LLM #MachineLearning #NVIDIA #arint_info

https://x.com/wccftech/status/2107196607217508717

Reminder to self about why I run my own DNS: I like knowing exactly which of my devices is lying to me. #homelab

I just gotta say, I absolutely love Beszel. It just keeps getting better and more feature-rich with each release.

https://www.beszel.dev/

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

📢 New #updates · 6 Oct #2

· ComfyUI v0.39.0 — Added LynnReal light Minimax-H3 vae support
· Jellyfin v12.2 — Bugfixes for smoother experience
· fluxer [email protected] — Fixed the login page layout

Browse everything at https://selfhost.directory

#homelab #docs #backup #opensource

Tonight, I started looking at automated deployment of services within my homelab.

I've been using ansible already, so I figured I would just start by going through my current virtual machines, harvest the config files, create ansible roles and templates, then go from there.

But then I wondered about my containerized services.

I've just migrated from Portainer to Arcane, and I realized all of my precious compose files weren't stored or tracked anywhere.

So, I did what any normal person would do, and set up a new Gitea organisation to handle my compose files and went ahead and set up each compose file (with example .env files) in new repositories. Now, a change in a compose.yml file in gitea causes the appropriate container stack to redeploy.

This is great, but how would I get these container hosts to point at arcane and get their relevant projects?
Easy! Ansible.
I can use a module to run a compose file, which links my machine to Arcane for management.

But now, I'll need to manually create an entry in Arcane for each new host before I deploy the agent. Can I automate that?

I can. Using Arcane's API, I can programmatically register a new environment, thus allowing my new device to have new gitea projects deployed to it.

So much to do!

#homelab #ansible #arcane #selfhosted

My DIY OPNSENSE router, built on an old-arse AMD dual core handles 10 gigabit just fine. https://lydie.cc/opnsense-router.html #homelab

It runs hot though! But it was free.

#selfhosted #selfhosting

Ach und ich teste so nebenbei #Mailflow als Email Webclient. Macht bisher ein guten Eindruck.

https://github.com/maathimself/mailflow

#homelab #selfhosted

Wenn ihr im #Homelab Monitoring eingerichtet habt, über welches Medium werdet ihr über Fehler informiert?

Three days of downtime after one NIC died. Built a bulletproof ZimaBoard lab: VLANs, dual-WAN failover, Kasm desktops, Tailscale VPN.
https://www.valtersit.com/guides/zima/bulletproof-homelab-zimaboard/
#homelab #tailscale #zimaboard

das teil hat mir jetzt innerhalb von einem tag das wiki aufgesetzt und meine gesamte netzwerk topologie "entschlüsselt" und festgehalten

ich muss es nochmal betonen: LOKAL!

ich versuche das jetzt seit irgend 5 jahren zu machen aber ich bin schon beim aufsetzen und konzipieren gescheitert

das #LLM hat jetzt einfach mal gemacht 😎

...während ich auf social media und anderen dubiosen seiten rumgehangen bin 😂
#KI #homelab

Local models on my own hardware are getting better, and I want to use them before sending everything to a frontier model. NVIDIA Switchyard and Nemotron 3.5 Lightning are helping me do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxfNTcPl70w

#localai #nvidia #selfhosting #homelab

One pfSense update can silently break your firewall rules. See how pfSense vs OPNsense compare on update stability, VPNs, and plugins for homelabs. #pfSense #OPNsense #Homelab

https://www.valtersit.com/guides/networking/pfsense-vs-opnsense-a-pragmatic-comparison-for-self-hosters/

Am looking for an EU-based alternative for dynamic DNS that I'm currently using from dyn.com. It should offer the ability to create 15-20 hosts. Happy to pay for a good service. Any ideas?

EDIT: mind blown. 🤯 Am using joker.com for my domains (for years already) and only just found they offer DDNS as well 🤦‍♂️.

#Homelab #Selfhosting #DNS #DDNS

How do you create a #Shopping List?

Well, this is how #homelab users do it!

#ChangeDetection

https://changedetection.io/

Your cyber lab can encrypt 4TB of family photos if malware crosses a flat VLAN. Build a disposable Kasm lab on ZimaBoard 2 with Debian 12 and nftables isolation: https://www.valtersit.com/guides/zima/zimaboard-2-kasm/ #homelab #kasm #zimaboard

ist das geil!

ich lass mein lokales qwen3.8 gerade mein netzwerk scannen und ne "karte" in openwiki erstellen
dann muss ich das zeugs nicht jedes mal erklären wenn ich irgend ein verbindungsproblem habe, sondern die infos sind im wiki

lokal!

keine daten und infos haben je meine wohnug verlassen
😎
#KI #homelab

41 dead terabytes. Life of a data hoarder! Bytes lost = 0. RAID used = none (everything is fully mirrored 3 times). #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #harddrives

Four TESLA P100 16GB HBM2 GPUs have been ordered for the Solar Powered LLM Server V2.0.

Total spend was around $700 for the components on eBay. I think I'll stripe 5 HDDs I find in a box to store models.

The idea is highest quality model and fastest tokens per second so when I ask my smart speakers to do automation things, it's faster. Not that the current server is bad in any way.

https://www.lydie.cc/solar-ai-server.html

#homelab #homeassistant #hermesagent #llm #localai #selfhosted #selfhosting

Sometimes it is easier to live a simple life, with eyes closed. Once you open your eyes, you realise, not all colors are beautiful!

p.s. I am having issues with connecting #Flatpak apps with my #homelab services on #Ubuntu

#Philosophy #pain #1stWorldProblems #linux

Hallo Fediverse! 👋 Ich bin Tim aus #Berlin

Im Job leite ich ein Platform-Team. Nebenbei hab ich bemodi mitgegründet. Wir beraten herstellerunabhängig zu IT-Betrieb und KI-Automatisierung, meistens dort, wo es streng reguliert ist: Krankenhäuser, Labore, KRITIS. Wenn keine Daten das Netz verlassen dürfen, läuft alles on-prem, sonst gern auch in der Cloud.

Viel dreht sich gerade um Agenten mit Gedächtnis, MCP und die Frage, wie man NIS2 und den AI Act im Alltag hinkriegt.

Ich habe ein Talos-Cluster mit Prometheus, Grafana und mehr Self-Hosting-Projekten, als vernünftig ist. 🫣
Zocken tu ich auch unter Linux.

Ansonsten will ich irgendwann einen #Marathon unter 4 Stunden laufen und schaue dafür vermutlich zu oft auf meine HRV. In #Hattrick leide ich jede Woche mit dem FC HomeBaze 2020 mit.

Über all das schreibe ich hier, mal mehr, mal weniger.

Wem aus diesen Ecken sollte ich folgen?

#neuhier #introduction #Homelab #SelfHosting #Kubernetes #DigitaleSouveränität #KI #Laufen #Marathon #Hattrick #Linux

ZimaBoard 2 review: x86 SBC with PCIe and dual SATA, benched against Raspberry Pi 5 and Orange Pi 5 Plus. Thermals, throttling, and where the hype dies. https://www.valtersit.com/guides/zima/zimaboard-2-review/ #homelab #sbc #proxmox