Gaelin blog

A friend and I have a homelab setup in his basement, as well as a few components in my house. We have been slowly amassing assorted old servers to add to this lab so that we have a fun playground and can host all the game servers and websites we want.

• 2x Netgate SG-3100 (running pfsense)
• 1x HPE DL360 G6
• 6x Lenovo DL350
• 5x Raspberry pi 3B/4
• 1x HPE G5(?)
• 2x Old desktop
• 1x 42U Rack
• 2x Netgear S3300-28X stacking switches
• Assorted switches

Totaling to ~350gb ram, ~60 cores @ 1.6-3.5Ghz, and ~30tb raw disk capacity

Good question! Mostly just messing around, having fun, and learning!

I connected our pfsenses via ipsec tunnels so that the infrastructure at each location is accessible from the other.

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 on 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 SAN for the clusters.

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 two of the PIs setup as pi holes for DNS based ad blocking. Currently we are blocking ~7.5m domains.

We have a Factorio server running on the G5.

We have 2 Netgear S3300-28X switches so that we can use link aggregation to get a redundant, high throughput storage network.

In 2016, I got my first desktop. Since then I have been running various websites and game servers in my free time.

In 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.

In 2020 I got a small Netgate firewall running pfsense.

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.

In December, 2023 I bought 6x Lenovo RD350 and a HPE DL360 G6 which where being decommissioned from my school's datacenter.

In January 2024 I got 2x Netgear S3300-28X so that we would have good stable networking and so I could play around with stacking