Home Lab Progress

I've been tinkering with homelabbing. I have an old P500 Workstation running an Xeon E5-2699 V3 18-Core and 128GB of RAM and using it as a host for Proxmox. Total overkill, and I've experimented with some containers and Pi-Hole, but didn't do much else with it outside of the initial NAS setup. I bought three clearance 8TB Seagate external hard drives for dirt cheap, removed them from their housing, installed a file server, and left it as is. Boy, has that changed.

Initially, I wanted to edit and push updates to this site from my laptop in bed and keep it local. I installed Syncthing, using my NAS as the versioning center, and shared it with my laptop and desktop. I could use Git, but I want to try self-hosting and other tools I haven't used before.

After setting up Syncthing and feeling motivated, I resolved some networking issues I had previously encountered and was putting off. Now, I have a seedbox container, a self-hosted music streamer, and a reverse proxy to access my music library outside my network. I'm going out of my way to find things to self-host. I can see this being a very addictive hobby.

Kitten is doing well. She is such a sweetheart. As soon as she sees me, she comes lumbering over to flop and get pets. We've decided on Fyora, yes, from Neopets. But she will have to settle for Lady Fyora. We can't have her usurping PB (Princess Buttercup).