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Some things about me This is my first self hosted site where I hope to show some of the services running in my homelab. Although tinkering with VMs, Docker, LXC containers etc is a hobby of mine for the last couple of years, documentation has never been! Hope to change that here.

Proxmox Cluster as my Homelab A lot have happened in the last year. The first rule I’ve discovered is when you think you’ve got everything up and running as you want it, you’re wrong! There is always room for improvements and a path to learning new things. As I’ve been getting myself familiarized with Proxmox and my storage needs increased, I’ve decided to ditch my Asrock X300 -and turn it into a HTPC with Debian 12- and buy and new mini PC into its place. The R1 Pro NAS ...

Monitoring Services Slowly but surely you become addicted to your services and from time to time, things can and will break, an update can go wrong, power outage in the middle of the night shuts down your PCs etc. We are all used to things more or less working when we go to google or youtube and not having any downtime but in a simple setup like mine where no redundancy is in place things will stop working. ...

Pi-hole and NGINX Reverse Proxy I love my Pi-hole instance. From network wide adblocking, to local DNS records is one those very few softwares that I cannot think how things worked before it. Used to run it on 1st gen RaspberryPi with a 4GB SD card but now is part of my Proxmox server as a container. My routers DNS settings point to the IP address of my Pi-hole, so every request from my network devices has to go through it. ...

VPN to your homelab Tailscale easiest VPN to set up Since I had little to no knowledge on how to access my home network and opening ports on my router was a big no-no from a security perspective, googling around I found Tailscale! Being a complete novice, that was the best solution! Really easy to install and even easier to configure with apps for every platform (yes, even Windows!). Setting it up on my Proxmox server was just as easy thanks to their great documentations explaining installation and how to set up an exit node and advertise routes on Linux so you can access your home network outside of it even if you are behind CG-NAT! ...

Home Lab Overview Current Setup Update 31/1/2025 All of this are pretty much obsolete as I’ve moved everything to a 2 node proxmox cluster with raspberry pi 4 for quorum. I’ve also migrated a lot of services from Docker to LXC containers for easier backups and high availability. Will update the post as soon as I can with all the infos! Below is a screenshot of my current services running. I’ve left a few of them out since I’m constantly trying new things. ...