Generally I use docker for self hosting the UniFi Network Application and now the UniFi OS Server (well, podman for that one but same difference). However we do have a location that has it installed on a Windows Server VM. This creates a challenge because application does not support running…
Just wanted to show off the cool kegerator I built. I wish I had documented the process while doing it, but I made it a long time ago and honestly didn't think it would turn out as cool as it did. It was built using an old solid…
I wanted to use a Dell Micro form factor computer as a host. To use this device, I needed to externally power the 10GB Mellanox card due to the built-in SATA on the mobo not delivering the full 12v needed to power the card. First, to connect the card I&…
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…