The Lab

This is the landing page for my homelab posts. It isn’t a feed because I will write things here and link out to relevant parts of the homelab.

I’ll probably have notes about the hardware mostly here.

Primary Application Server #

My main server is called Ghost

Current Homelab Setup #

I copied this our of homelab-journey-part-1 for now to stub out what this page will link to

Ad blocking | Pi-Hole #

Hardware: pi-3

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 hardwired in that is running pi-hole so that’s been a part of my infrastructure now for a long time.

Router | OPNSense #

My router is an old Optiplex SFF 5060 I got from Amazon for less than $100. So I’m running a x86 system for my router with OpenSense on it. Just seemed it to be another home lab standard and I’d like to someday bring pi-hole over there or use AdGuard or integrate those two things maybe a little bit more completely but right now they are mostly separate.

Networking | VLANs #

There’s a managed switch in there for some VLAN tomfoolery for my cameras and an IOT network type of a thing.

Networking | VPN | Tailscale #

They’re on tailscale as well so my DNS happens over tailscale.

My Desktop #

My daily-driver desktop is somewhat apart of my homelab now as I have a 3090 in there with 20 GB of VRAM so I can run some heavier LLMs for self-hosted AI workloads. Everything in that space runs in a container and then I manage docker containers with compose stacks and portainer for visibility.

Applications #

Some of the apps I run here are ollama, open-webui, automatic1111’s stable diffusion webui, whisper-webui