#homelabbing — Public Fediverse posts

i have no words other than... i sure am glad i moved to forgejo! 🤣 #linux #github #microsoft #microslop #homelabbing

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

• poetry from £10
• short stories from £20
• SvelteKit websites from £100

everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

• poetry from £10
• short stories from £20
• SvelteKit websites from £100

everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

• poetry from £10
• short stories from £20
• SvelteKit websites from £100

everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

• poetry from £10
• short stories from £20
• SvelteKit websites from £100

everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

i'm ewan — developer, writer, occasional poet. i build open-source ATProto tooling,
self-host most of my own infrastructure, and take commissions for things i'm actually
good at.

if any of that is useful or interesting to you, ko-fi.com/ewancroft
is where commissions live:

• poetry from £10
• short stories from £20
• SvelteKit websites from £100

everything's CC BY-SA 4.0. no NDAs, no nonsense.

tips are also welcome if you've got use out of anything i've made or written.
either way, cheers.

I need to cool my home lab better
I home lab is in my room and it is 31 c right now :neobot_sign_hot:

#homelab #homelabbing #server #computer

I’m really getting to reflect on the paradoxical nature of #homelabbing, #selfhosting, and #technology in general as I work to build a full-spectrum #cybersecurity stack from basically the ground up. The paradox being that if I could afford to, I would absolutely pay somebody or somebodies to host this crap for me and just use it as a service, but by so doing rob myself of the experience gained by building it myself; however, in struggling to build it for myself, I spend less time learning how to use the tools properly because it’s damned near impossible to get them all working together without some sort of sacrificial ritual.

To clarify, I’m not above #ritual #sacrifice, but none of the witches in the local coven will teach me the right one. Turns out broomstick jokes fly about as well as actual broomsticks. Ha! #rimshot

#threatintel #tech #opensource #docker

Almost there.
The server is basically ready — it just needs a little more tweaking.
One silent fan in the power supply, and everything will finally run as it should.
Patience, small upgrades, and a lot of love for quiet hardware.

#homelab #homeserver #serverbuild #selfhosted #selfhosting #baremetal #onprem #linux #opensource #sysadmin #devops #infrastructure #hardware #computers #technology #it #techlife #geeklife #maker #diyserver #silentpc #noiseless #cooling #fanmod #psu #homelabbing

The server is ready. A bit of hardware, a bit of chaos, a lot of patience and it finally came to life.

#homelab #serverbuild #selfhosted #selfhosting #baremetal #onprem #storage #datastorage #ssd #hdd #raid #nas #fileserver #linux #opensource #sysadmin #devops #infrastructure #hardware #computers #technology #it #techlife #diyserver #maker #geeklife #homelabbing #homeserver #miniserver #datacenterathome

The server is ready. A bit of hardware, a bit of chaos, a lot of patience and it finally came to life.

#homelab #serverbuild #selfhosted #selfhosting #baremetal #onprem #storage #datastorage #ssd #hdd #raid #nas #fileserver #linux #opensource #sysadmin #devops #infrastructure #hardware #computers #technology #it #techlife #diyserver #maker #geeklife #homelabbing #homeserver #miniserver #datacenterathome

The server is ready. A bit of hardware, a bit of chaos, a lot of patience and it finally came to life.

#homelab #serverbuild #selfhosted #selfhosting #baremetal #onprem #storage #datastorage #ssd #hdd #raid #nas #fileserver #linux #opensource #sysadmin #devops #infrastructure #hardware #computers #technology #it #techlife #diyserver #maker #geeklife #homelabbing #homeserver #miniserver #datacenterathome

The server is ready. A bit of hardware, a bit of chaos, a lot of patience and it finally came to life.

#homelab #serverbuild #selfhosted #selfhosting #baremetal #onprem #storage #datastorage #ssd #hdd #raid #nas #fileserver #linux #opensource #sysadmin #devops #infrastructure #hardware #computers #technology #it #techlife #diyserver #maker #geeklife #homelabbing #homeserver #miniserver #datacenterathome

The server is ready. A bit of hardware, a bit of chaos, a lot of patience and it finally came to life.

#homelab #serverbuild #selfhosted #selfhosting #baremetal #onprem #storage #datastorage #ssd #hdd #raid #nas #fileserver #linux #opensource #sysadmin #devops #infrastructure #hardware #computers #technology #it #techlife #diyserver #maker #geeklife #homelabbing #homeserver #miniserver #datacenterathome

There's something that feels oddly cute about me and my father's NASs >w<

#selfhosted #NAS #homelabbing

about 2 weeks since i started #homelabbing
changes and improvements since,

- i had initially everything setup on wifi and that was hella unstable, i would get random connections drops. i bought an extension board and connected everything via ethernet to my router's internal switch.
- i had been using my old dell inspiron n4010 as my #NAS but the usb 2.0 was starting to become a painfull bottleneck and i eventually shifted the HDD to my thinkpad with a usb 3.0 port. unsure how i wanna use the dell now, i would probably shift adguard home and other light services over to it.
- have setup #dockge to easily manage docker containers and "stacks" as they call it.
- have setup a few other services including but not limited to, #navidrome, #actualbudget and #karakeep.

Kann die AI Bubble bitte mal platzen ? Ich brauch neue Festplatten und RAM.
Danke AI.

#homelabbing #selfhosting #hdd #ram #dankeai

the first day of the year is as good a day as any to start building your #homelab
day1 of #homelabbing

so i have got two spare machines, a #thinkpad t460s and a dell inspiron n4010.
today i've put #debian trixie stable on the thinkpad which will be my main lab, and #openmediavault on the dell to make it a #NAS which will barely run any dedicated services.

moreover, i setup #docker and #tailscale. after which i started running the #vaultwarden and #AdguardHome containers.

current roadblock:
tailscale serve only let's me serve a single service via a single domain, i wanna figure how i can use multiple different domains on my local network so that i can access them individually at the same time.

i.e. something like,
vaultwarden.smth.ts.net
adguard.smth.ts.net

i haven't figured that out yet

Seems like #homelabbing is going to get a lot harder

I'm thinking of switching from #spectrum to #frontierfios. What experience do you have any experience with Frontier Fios, particually in the #connecticut area? I have an extensive #homelab and lots of networking experience, so I know the devil is in the details.

#homelabbing #homelabs

I want to get into homelabbing. Where do I get started? 
Planning on using an Intel N95 mini PC with 512 GB SSD and 16 GB RAM.
#selfhosting #digitalsovereignty #europeanalternatives #privacy #homelab #homelabbing #Linux

I got my new Unifi switch installed! I did a video on it that I might share in the future.
#unifi #ubiquiti #networking #homelab #homelabbing

New blog post! :ggfun:

A year has passed since my last State of the Homelab post, so it's time for an update.

In this episode I talk how my homelab looks right now, what is the hardware, what I am running on it. NAS, ZFS, LXD, Docker, all those words. Also a bit on replacing a PSU for a more efficient one.

https://stfn.pl/blog/77-state-of-homelab-in-june-2025/

#blog #homelab #homelabbing #nas #zfs #lxd #docker

So are we doing Tempo, Victoria, Influx... what for home lab observability now?

#o11y #Observability #HomeLab #HomeLabbing #Grafana #Prometheus #OpenTelemetry #Otel

New blog post!

In which I talk how I installed a self-hosted expense tracker, Actual Budget, using LXC.

The twist is that Actual Budget requires HTTPS to run at all, so I added Tailscale with their provided certificates, allowing me to reach my self-hosted service from anywhere using a secure connection.

https://stfn.pl/blog/75-actual-budget-lxc/

#selfhosted #homelabbing #blog #lxc #tailscale

Powered by the media convert from Aliexpress #spf #spf+ #homelab #homelabbing

Well, just figured out why I was having so much trouble with my network cluster: one of my drives just crapped out. Fortunately it was just a 2 TB slice and I have one copy so I should recover about 95% of it (I was already in the middle of trying to recover some corrupted volumes most of the week).

I think once I get the replacement, I'll bump up to 020 (two copies) but drop the erasure coding since it looks like that isn't worth the pattern until I get over ten nodes, which probably will never happen because this is just a home lab.

Oh well, as far as I can tell, I didn't lose any photo shoot.

Well, back to writing.

#SeaweedFS #homelabbing

i wish I could do more than 1 thing at a time. i feel so stuck in my own projects
#homelab #homelabbing #selfhosting

What's peoples opinion on #GlusterFS for #homelabbing?
#homelab #selfhosting #selfhost #foss #kubernetes