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# HomeLab

This page tells you about my Home Lab and the technologies I have learnt anout and use:

### Hardware

#### Servers
My main server nicknamed SOONtm because it will always be in a state of "It will be ready soon" and is unfortuantly not on at all times because it is in my bedroom and it is loud.
 - CPU: AMD Epyc 7551P
 - RAM: 256GB DDR4 ECC
 - MoB: Supermicro​ H11SSL-i
 - GPU: nVidia Quadro M4000
 - Storage: 2x Intel 256GB SATA SSDs, 2x WD Red 4TB HDD, 2x Seagate Exos 8TB HDD, 1x Intel 110GB Optaine SSD, + multiple other SSDs of varius size and brand.
 - OS: Proxmox

 My Secondary server named dockerbox and is on at all times and, as the name suggests, is used for docker.
 - CPU: AMD Athlon 5350
 - RAM: 8GB DDR3
 - MoB: Asus ITX
 - Storage: 1x Samsung 256GB SSD, 1x WD Red 4TB SSD
 - OS: Linux Arch

 My Tertiary server named containercontainer and is on at all times and, also used for docker.
 - CPU: Intel i5 8500 
 - RAM: 8GB DDR4
 - MoB: Dell
 - Storage: 1x Crucial 500GB NVMe SSD
 - OS: Linux Arch

 #### Cloud
 I have 1 Cloud VM hosted in Linode that serves a similar perpouse to dockerbox but for services better suted for cloud.
 - CPU: 1x Shared CPU Core
 - RAM: 1GB
 - Storage: 30GB
 - OS: Debian 12

 #### Networking
 I mainly use Asus for my networking solutions and make use of their AiMesh for WiFi in my house as it has good coverage and parent approval factor as I dont have to run cables everyware.
 - Modem: Virgin Hub 3 - in modem mode
 - Router: Asus RT-AX88U
 - APs: 2x Asus RT-AC88U - As AiMesh Nodes
 - Switch: HPE OfficeConnect 1950 JG960A

 ### Software
 I am a big fan of Virtulization and containerization, so I Primarilly use Proxmox and Docker

 SOONtm:
 - The main VM is running TrueNAS Scale which has the 2 8TB HDDs and the Intel Optaine drives passed through. It has those drives in a ZFS pool with the 2 HDDs mirrored and the Optaine drive set as a Level 2 cache. 
 - The other VMs are currently used for testing various services and OSs but when the server is on 24/7, I plan to run various services such as JellyFin, game servers and migrating containers from dockerbox. 
 
 On dockerbox the containers I am currently running are:
 - AdGaurd Home - A DNS filter that filters out Ads from webpages for all devices on the network as well as other privacy and security features.
 - FireFox - A Web Browser accessable from a Web Browser, browserception.
 - Jacket - a torrent searcher for qBittorrent
 - Portainer - Container Managment
 - qBittorrent - a torrenting client
 - TrueCommand - An interface for managing many instancess of TrueNAS
 - Wetty - A Web based terminal emulator and SSH client

On containercontainer the containers I am currently running are:
- AdGaurd Home - For redundency if dockerbox is down
- MeTube - Youtube downloader
- Minecraft Server - a server for Minecraft


 On my cloud VM the containers I am currently running are:
 - Appache - I have 2 instances hosting the non-SSL instances of my 2 websites, this [one](http://cv.aaronlangham.com/) and the main [page](http://aaronlangham.com/)
 - [GiTea](http://gitea.aaronlangham.com/) - An open source, self hosted Git repository. 
 - Heimdall - A customisable Dashboard/Homepage.
 - nginx - I have 3 instances, 2 of which are the SSL versions of my 2 sites: [Home](https://aaronlangham.com/) [CV](https://cv.aaronlangham.com/), and the last on is a reverse proxy which listens for incomming traffic from multiple sources and can redirect it to another address and to a specific port as well as installing the SSL certificates.