Home Lab

Everything below runs at home, on hardware that was either cheap or already lying around. None of it is load-bearing for anyone but me — which is exactly what makes it worth doing.

Servers

  • Primary — MSI Cubi 5Intel i5-1215U, Ubuntu Server 24.04. Runs the bulk of the stack: reverse proxy, media, monitoring, and a growing pile of containers.
  • Storage — Amlogic S9xx TV boxArmbian 25.8. The machine that refuses to die, and keeps earning its place.
  • Utility — Raspberry Pi 3BRaspberry Pi OS Bookworm. Small jobs, always on.

Network

  • GatewayZbtlink AX3000M (WiFi 6) on OpenWrt — Tailscale exit node, ZeroTier, WireGuard, natmap, DAWN
  • Access pointsJCG Q20 and D-Link DIR-878 on OpenWrt, running DAWN for roaming
  • Backup / second siteXiaomi Router R4AC (backup gateway) and a Xiaomi Router 4C at a remote location, both on OpenWrt with ZeroTier and WireGuard

Services

Also running, without a public front door: the *arr suite, qBittorrent, NetAlertX, Nginx Proxy Manager, Prometheus with Grafana, WireGuard Easy, and llama.cpp.