Homelab

I recently followed a tutorial put out by TechnoTim called “PostgreSQL Clustering the Hard Way”. It is a fantastic video, he does a good job of walking you step by step though the instructions all while explaining what each thing is doing and what each line of configuration means. After following his tutorial and having my own HA PostgreSQL cluster, I wondered if I could do the same with some webservers. Certainly it should be easy, right? After all, a simple webservers should be the easiest thing to configure because they’ve been around as long as the internet has. ...

This post was originally posted on a Wordpress blog that I had and forgot about. It is being posted here for completeness of my homelab journey. It was originally posted in the summer of 2024. This is the first in a series of articles detailing my 2024 homelab update. I have been running my current homelab off an old 2013 or 2015 iMac I got from my grandfather, as well as a repurposed gaming PC I built in 2020. The iMac has been my application server (using Docker and Docker Compose to manage the applications), and the gaming PC has been my storage server, running TrueNAS CORE, which you may know is FreeBSD based. Nothing wrong with FreeBSD per se, but I am rather partial to Debian, so when I saw that TrueNAS SCALE was Debian-based, I knew I wanted to switch. Additionally, the 8GB of the iMac was starting to be a limiting factor, and I also wanted to do things “more correctly” like using a hypervisor, Kubernetes, and more Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). ...

This post was originally posted on a Wordpress blog that I had and forgot about. It is being posted here for completeness of my homelab journey. It was originally posted in early 2023. I’ve decided to layout what my homelab looks like now because this summer I hope to change some things. Storage My current storage server is one that started life as a gaming computer that I built back in 2020. I had gotten a wild itch to build a computer (my first ever build), that admittedly I didn’t really plan much out. I also didn’t really factor in the fact that I am not a gamer. So after I built it I toyed around with Cities:Skylines, Stardew Valley, and other such games, but the computer largely sat unused (or at least under-used). ...