NOTE: I have since switched to a USB 3.1 USB 5GB Etherner adapter. It is of course slower, but the speed does meet my needs, frees up the NVMe port, and doesn't look near as janky. It also thankfully eliminates the power supply, a singular point of…
Browser warnings on my internal sites got old, especially past 20 or so self-hosted services. This setup gets trusted certificates for internal services using a DNS challenge, and the services stay behind the firewall. It has two goals: remove the browser warning, and use HTTPS end to end, even on…
My rack used to sit in the middle of the basement. It was loud and made the space look messy, so I moved it into the closet under the stairs. It fits with room to spare, and there's a gap at the back for running cables. The closet…
This is the first in a series on how I built my homelab. My hosts use older Intel hardware, 6th to 9th gen. It's cheap, and desktops from that period still have useful specs, including NVMe slots. This page is the high-level overview. Each step gets its own…
For a while I backed up my most important data to Backblaze. I also wanted a last-resort cold copy of both my servers and my file share, one that's simple to set up and simple to restore after a total loss. Every three months I run this by…
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…