An overview of my home server & what I run on it.

Hardware

Compute

	proxmox	proxmox2
Model	Intel NUC 11th Gen	Lenovo ThinkCentre M720
CPU	i5-1135G7 @ 2.40 GHz (8 threads)	i7-7700T @ 2.90 GHz (8 threads)
PassMark	2731 / 9377	2124 / 7526
RAM	64 GB	8 GB
Boot Disk	128 GB	64 GB
Storage Disk	2TB	2TB

The Lenovo has an open RAM slot but I don’t really need it.

Storage

This Synology DS1511+ NAS (plus DX513 expansion bay) is quite old, I’ve already replaced the PSU once and upgraded the RAM. It keeps truckin’, so I’m reluctant to spend a bunch of money upgrading something that Just Works™. I am keeping the drive count capped at 8 so I can in the future (probably) get an 8-bay model when the time comes.

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  block:nas:1
    columns 1
    A["DS1511+"]
    d1[" EMPTY "]
    d2["Drive 2 — 8 TB"]
    d3["Drive 3 — 8 TB"]
    d4["Drive 4 — 6 TB"]
    d5[" EMPTY "]
  end

  block:dx:1
    columns 1
    B["DX513"]
    e1["Drive 1 — 14 TB"]
    e2["Drive 2 — 14 TB"]
    e3["Drive 3 — 12 TB"]
    e4["Drive 4 — 10 TB"]
    e5["Drive 5 — 14 TB"]
  end

  nas -.- dx
  
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Network

• MikroTik CSS326-24G-2S+ switch

Software

Hypervisor

I run Proxmox, a Debian-based hypervisor that has a nice web interface. The two hosts are in a cluster with a Raspberry Pi as the QDevice external voter.

Services

I try to run as many of my own services as possible, stuff I have written up so far:

• AI Agents
• ATProto PDS
• Forgejo
• FreshRSS
• Home Assistant
• MetaMCP
• Plex
• Quake 3 Arena
• Vikunja

Weird VMs

• lucid-fabrics/osx-proxmox-next
• Windows XP Guest on Proxmox

Cloud

For stuff that is a little more public or crucial to my business, I self host on the Oracle Cloud “Always Free” platform which is very generous. The catch is that it is annoying to sign up for and the Oracle dashboard is pretty much the worst platform I’ve ever used for anything.

You can’t beat the price though, as this equivalent on Digital Ocean would cost you north of $100/mo.