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-**🚧 This page is under construction! 👷🏗️**
+===== About =====
+A friend and I have a homelab setup between our houses. We have been slowly amassing assorted old and new servers to add to this lab so that we have a fun playground and can host all the game servers and websites we want.
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-====== Hardware ======
+===== Hardware =====
+  * 2x Netgate SG-3100 (pfsense)
+  * 1x Netgate SG-1100 (pfsense)
+  * 1x HPE DL360 G6
+  * 6x Lenovo DL350
+  * 1x Raspberry pi 5
+  * 2x Raspberry pi 4
+  * 5x Raspberry pi 3B
+  * 1x HPE G5(?)
+  * 2x Old desktop
+  * 1x 42U Rack
+  * 2x Netgear S3300-28X stacking switches
+  * Custom NAS build
+    * [[https://www.jonsbo.com/en/products/N3.html|JONSBO N3 case]] with 8 bays
+    * Intel i7-12700K, 12 (8P + 4E) core 20 thread @ 3.6GHz
+    * 32GB DDR5 @ 6000MHz
+    * 1x 16TB Seagate IronWolf
+    * 3x 8TB Seagate IronWolf
+  * Assorted switches
+Totaling to ~400gb ram, ~72 cores @ 1.6-3.5Ghz, and ~70tb raw disk capacity
+===== What are we doing with all that??? =====
+Good question! Mostly just messing around, having fun, and learning!
+I connected all 3 pfsenses via ipsec tunnels so that the infrastructure at each location is accessible from the other 2.
+I run my website (this one) as well as a few other sites from one of the old desktops. I also run a minecraft server across both of the old desktops.
+My friend is using 2 of the PIs to run his website.
+We currently have 3 Lenovos in a XCP-ng cluster and the other 3 in a Proxmox cluster. We have the G6 setup as a NAS backing the VMs that we have running on the cluster.((Oh boy, live migration is so neat when you are running VMs off of a SAN! You just click a button and boop its on the other host!))
+We have three of the PIs setup as [[https://pi-hole.net/|pi holes]] for DNS based ad blocking. Currently we are blocking ~7.5m domains.
+We have a Factorio server running on the G5 and on one of the desktops.
+We have 2 Netgear S3300-28X switches so that we can use link aggregation to get a redundant, high throughput storage network connection.
-==== History ====
-In 2016, I got my first desktop. Since then I have been running various websites and game servers in my free time.
+Each location is assigned a 10.**x**.0.0/16. Subnet ip ranges are standardized to:
+  * 10.x.**0**.0/24 : DMZ
+  * 10.x.**1**.0/24 : Admin
+  * 10.x.**2**.0/24 : LAN
+  * 10.x.**3**.0/24 : Other
-In 2019 I got a second desktop to use as a dedicated server. I aslo added a pihole which functions as a wifi access point for my laptop.
+This way the ipsec tunnel only has to allow access to 10.X.0.0/23 externally, and can safely block incoming to anything else. Anything that does not have a 10.x address is only for local access/internet access and will not be able to traverse the ipsec tunnel.
-In 2020 I got a small netgate firewall running pfsense.
+Here is a netmap! I removed some information from it but it should give a decent idea of how I have things setup
+{{ ::colo_netmap.png?nolink&600 |}}
-In 2021 I got an old HPE server from my school which was selling a bunch of old hardware.
-In May, 2022 I received a 42U rack. A friend and I decided to combine our home labs to this rack and colo out of their basement.
+===== History =====
-The most recent addition to our lab in December 2023 was 6x Lenovo RD350 and a HPE DL360 G6.
+  * 2016: I got my first desktop. Since then I have been running various websites and game servers in my free time.
+  * 2019: I got a second desktop to use as a dedicated server. I also added a pihole which functions as a wifi access point for my laptop.
+  * 2020: I got a small Netgate firewall running pfsense.
+  * 2021: I got an old HPE server from my school which was selling a bunch of old hardware.
+  * 2022, May: I received a 42U rack. A friend and I decided to combine our home labs to this rack and colo out of their basement.
+  * 2023, December: I bought 6x Lenovo RD350 and a HPE DL360 G6 which where being decommissioned from my school's datacenter.
+  * 2024, January: I got 2x Netgear S3300-28X so that we would have good stable networking and so I could play around with stacking
+  * 2025, January: I built a new NAS with 40TB raw capacity

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