Lab

The machines in my office rack and closet, and what they run. No addresses or ports, sorry.

The hardware pick one

office rack
the closet
out front

BIG HOSS the Proxmox host

cpu
AMD Threadripper 1920X, 12 cores
memory
64 GB DDR4-2666
gpu
GTX 1660
storage
2 × 12 TB HGST in a ZFS mirror; 512 GB + 2 TB NVMe
board
Gigabyte X399 Designare EX
extras
an LSI SAS HBA in IT mode
power
the rack UPS, shuts down in order
runs
  • a handful of VMs and containers
  • nightly guest backups
  • the subnet route
  • Uptime Kuma
office rack

BIG HOSS, the Proxmox host

cpu
AMD Threadripper 1920X, 12 cores
memory
64 GB DDR4-2666
gpu
GTX 1660
storage
2 × 12 TB HGST in a ZFS mirror; 512 GB + 2 TB NVMe
board
Gigabyte X399 Designare EX
extras
an LSI SAS HBA in IT mode
power
the rack UPS, shuts down in order
  • a handful of VMs and containers
  • nightly guest backups
  • the subnet route
  • Uptime Kuma
the closet
out front

On the air for friends & family

  • Foundry VTTmy Vampire: The Masquerade table
  • Jellyfinmy movies and shows
  • VideoJokerthe Discord bot, always onunder construction
  • a forever worldan always-on Minecraft serverunder construction
  • my retro librarymy collection of old games, dumped, and playable via browserunder construction

Everything I'm running 12 things, on four boxes

  • Proxmox VEone job per guest, each with its own firewallBIG HOSS
  • Jellyfinmovies and shows for friends and familythe NAS
  • Foundry VTTmy Vampire: The Masquerade tablethe NAS
  • Pi-holeDNS and ad blocking for my devicesa Pi 2
  • Syncthingmy notes, synced between my devicesBIG HOSS
  • Uptime Kumawatches everything, pings my DiscordBIG HOSS
  • Tailscalethe private network between it alleverywhere
  • Caddythe front door, HTTPS includedthe VPS
  • CrowdSecturns away whoever is knocking too hardthe VPS
  • Backupssnapshots, a nightly drive, and off-sitethe NAS
  • NUTtells everything when the power goesBIG HOSS
  • Claude Coderuns my weekly health checksBIG HOSS
  • Authentikone login for friends and familyunder construction
  • VideoJokerthe Discord bot, always onunder construction
  • Minecrafta forever worldunder construction
  • RomMa retro library in the browserunder construction

also around the house

  • battlestation · Ryzen 7, RTX 3070
  • Bambu Lab P1S
  • ThinkPad X220, waiting for a job
  • 4 × Pi Zero