Sweet! Here's my homelab -
https://i.imgur.com/QS0o4ni.jpg - I should self host an about page, too.
- Netgear Cable modem
- Edgerouter ER4
- 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network.
- Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server
- TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear.
- 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host.
- ESXi is pretty light at the moment - running Unifi controller and a dedicated VM that just runs Elasticsearch for a side project. For a while I was heavily using it to simulate an AD deployment for a small business.
- Synology DS918 is a network drive and network time machine backup destination. It backs itself up to Backblaze nightly.
- Everything is on a simple Cyberpower 1500VA UPS. I can run everything for about 80 minutes without power, but if I shut down the R720 the runway gets much longer.
I got my start in about 2003-2004 by trying to run my own mini ISP out of my home during High School. I was doing everything over a residential DSL connection that only got 1.5mbit down and a fraction of that for upload.
I still remember asking my bud to help me 'test my mail server' which was a Qmail installation via the Qmail rocks guide. The machine was a Pentium 3 with 128mb of RAM. My bud Anand (Founder of Gyrosco.pe) sent a handful of test emails to it and brought it to its knees! Absolutely hilarious incident at the time.
I wish that I had more photos of that time in my life.
- Netgear Cable modem
- Edgerouter ER4
- 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network.
- Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server
- TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear.
- 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host.
- ESXi is pretty light at the moment - running Unifi controller and a dedicated VM that just runs Elasticsearch for a side project. For a while I was heavily using it to simulate an AD deployment for a small business.
- Synology DS918 is a network drive and network time machine backup destination. It backs itself up to Backblaze nightly.
- Everything is on a simple Cyberpower 1500VA UPS. I can run everything for about 80 minutes without power, but if I shut down the R720 the runway gets much longer.
I got my start in about 2003-2004 by trying to run my own mini ISP out of my home during High School. I was doing everything over a residential DSL connection that only got 1.5mbit down and a fraction of that for upload.
I still remember asking my bud to help me 'test my mail server' which was a Qmail installation via the Qmail rocks guide. The machine was a Pentium 3 with 128mb of RAM. My bud Anand (Founder of Gyrosco.pe) sent a handful of test emails to it and brought it to its knees! Absolutely hilarious incident at the time.
I wish that I had more photos of that time in my life.