Although a minor inconvenience, having browsers warn me about my internal sites gets old, especially once you start self hosted more than 20 or so services. We want to use a DNS provider to provide a certificate for our internal services, while keeping the services themselves safely behind our firewall.…
Server Rack Move My server rack was previously in the middle of the basement. Due to noise concerns, as well as making everything look "cleaner" I decided to move the rack to the closet under my step. Fortunately, it fits just perfect in there and there is a…
I was able to aquire an old Siris 3 server from my old job. The motherboard it uses is an ASRock Rack D1541D4U-2T8R. Up until recently I've been using it for TrueNAS, but have been using another RAID card for this. Originally I was planning to just add…
Overview I will be creating this guide, detailing how I setup my homelab. My setup uses slightly older hardware, ranging from 6th Gen to 9th Gen Intel processors. This hardware is old enough that it is relatively inexpensive, but you can find desktops from this age with decent specs such…
Up until recently I have been backing up my most important data to Backblaze. I wanted to implement something that was more of a last resort, cold storage backups to backup both my servers and my file share. I wanted this to be easy to implement, and easy to restore…
I wanted an easy way to add and remove drives for cold storage backups, so I created this external drive caddy using this Hard Drive Rack. It is no long available on Amazon and has gone up in price, but you can create your own using similar methods or devices.…
I have since moved on from using this switch to a Brocade ICX6610, but when I first started learning and homelabbing I bought a couple Cisco routers and switches. First I was using a Catalyst 3560G. Eventually I got a Cisco WS-C3750X, both because I wanted something with PoE but…
For my local backups, I backup my virtual machines using Proxmox Backup Server to my TrueNAS device. While this is not the officially supported, it has worked well for me so far. The device I use for this is an Udoo x86 device which has worked perfectly for it. This…