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The Home Lab Revisited My homelab has changed quite a bit since the last update, moving from consumer routers to OPNsense and eventually UniFi, while adding a dual-Xeon ThinkStation P710 with 192 GB of RAM for virtualization, containers, and more tinkering.
2024-11-28
Homelab Update An update to my homelab with a larger network rack, rack-mounted Raspberry Pis, PoE networking, an OPNsense firewall, a dedicated VPN router, and a Dell T5600 running my containerized media services.
2023-01-21
Raspberry Pi Cluster Upgrading my four-node Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster with PoE HATs and a PoE switch, replacing separate power supplies with a cleaner single-cable setup for both power and networking.
2022-05-01
Dell T620 Adding my first real enterprise server to the homelab: a used Dell PowerEdge T620 with dual Xeons, RAID storage, and 192 GB of RAM for experimenting with virtualization and server infrastructure.
2022-01-20
Dell T5600 Turning a Dell Precision T5600 into a 16-core, 128 GB homelab server running Plex, monitoring, and custom home automation services with Ubuntu Server, Docker, Traefik, and a custom Philips Hue API.
2022-01-11
Intel Nuc Home Server Turning a pair of used Intel NUCs into compact Arch Linux home servers, including hardware upgrades, a troublesome Skull Canyon HDMI issue, and my experience using NUCs as more powerful Raspberry Pi alternatives.
2022-01-06

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