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…
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…
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…
NFS Share First we will set up the NFS shares from our TrueNAS Scale server. Configuration on the NFS server's side will depend on what you are using as a server. Under TrueNAS it's under Shares Unix (NFS) Shares. Hit the Add button and select the…
This will be more of an overview of how to set up the network, since this can vary so much depending on what network equipment you are running. In my case I'm running a Brocade ICX 6610 switch and an OPNsense firewall. There are a total of 4…
Proxmox Install First we will want to install the Proxmox host. I'm going to assume you have already done this, but you'll want to download Proxmox and put it on a flash drive using Rufus. To start, we want to only have the NIC plugged in…