Homelab
The servers at home: what runs on them, how they fit together, and what I learned fixing them when they broke.
What runs on it
- Proxmox VE as the hypervisor
- TrueNAS Scale for storage on ZFS
- Jellyfin for films and TV, with GPU transcoding
- Immich for photos
- Home Assistant for the house
- Pi-hole for network-wide DNS
The hardware
One box does it all: an Intel i7-6700K with 32 GB of RAM, and an AMD RX 580 passed through for video transcoding.
Latest homelab posts
Your own music library on every speaker in the house, with Navidrome and Music Assistant
I’ve got a big music library on my home server and I was still paying for streaming to listen to it around the house. Here’s how…
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I built a Jarvis-style voice assistant for my house (and what it really costs)
I wanted to talk to my house like Tony Stark does: “turn the office lights off”, “what’s on my calendar?”, “play some music in the kitchen”.…
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Moving my apps off TrueNAS onto a Docker VM with Dockge
TrueNAS is a great NAS. It's a less great app platform. Here's how I split the two: storage-heavy apps stay on the NAS, everything else moves…
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Self-hosting my password manager with Vaultwarden (and backups that actually work)
Vaultwarden gives you a Bitwarden-compatible password manager on your own hardware. Setting it up is the easy part. Backing it up properly is the bit that…
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Rebuilding my reverse proxy: Nginx Proxy Manager, a wildcard cert and single sign-on with Authelia
No more bookmarking IP addresses and port numbers. Proper HTTPS names for every app at home, and one login in front of all of them.
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Getting into my homelab from anywhere: Tailscale subnet router and Pi-hole DNS
No port forwarding, no dynamic DNS, no exposing apps to the internet. One Tailscale subnet router gives me the whole home network from my phone, with…
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