My journey into homelabbing only started in January, but it quickly grew onto me.
First it was only the Jonsbo N4 that ran Pihole and Wireguard as LXCs and a TrueNAS VM with an arr-stack in Proxmox. I ran into problems when I set up another VM intended to tinker with freqtrade (a crypto-trading framework) which temporarily requires a lot of compute power. My GF lives in another city and also uses the arr-stack, which sometimes led to ‘Jellyfin stopped working :(’ messages when I was doing maintenance. So I decided to go all-in and split the different functionalities into different machines.
Today it’s split into the following:
SPARTA (Secure Pihole Ad-blocking & Remote Tunnel Access):
- Raspberry Pi 5
- with official SSD kit for extra reliability
- in a 3D printed Fractal North Pi Case
- runs Pihole, Wireguard & Watchtower as docker containers
- unattended updates for hands-off operation (until it doesn’t, I know but I’m lazy)
TrueNAS:
- machine still needs an appropriate acronym (suggestions are welcome)
- Jonsbo N4 case
- i7 10700K
- 128 GB DDR4 RAM
- 6 x 8 TB HDDs in RAIDZ2
- 1 TB Cache NVME SSD
- runs my arr-stack, paperless-ngx and immich
Worker:
- machine also still needs an appropriate acronym (suggestions are welcome)
- Fractal Terra Jade case
- i5 14500
- 128 GB DDR5 RAM
- GTX 1080 TI
- runs Proxmox,
- a Linux VM for freqtrade
The worker machine should one day also run an LLM with which I can control any smart home devices (Jarvis style), hence the graphics card.
Me and my GF really like the sleek look of the setup and that was one of the main considerations when first planning it. It’s also reasonably quiet, the loudest are the HDDs. All machines draw about 130W in idle after running the power top auto-tune command on the worker machine. Any tips for further efficiency tweaks?
I’m really happy I found this community and started with this hobby since it also teaches me a lot about computers and networking. I work in a tech-heavy job but this has opened up new depths I haven’t yet seen. Thank you all for making this such an enjoyable journey!
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