Homelab

My home server stack as a set of docker-compose files, Caddy configs, and a hilariously opinionated backup script.

I finally measured what my rack sounds like when the GPU node is actually working. Here's a five-second clip and the numbers.

I ran a two-node Proxmox cluster for nine months and fought quorum constantly, and here is the specific set of workarounds and why I eventually added a third

A weekend of measuring, swapping, and tuning reduced my rack's idle draw from 220W to 180W, with surprises

I set up BGP between two homelab routers to learn, and reached some unromantic conclusions about when it earns its keep

How I sized (and then re-sized) a UPS for a homelab that started small and grew, and the surprising role of runtime vs capacity

A disk that passed every SMART test had silent corruption in an old set of blocks, and btrfs scrub caught it two weeks before it would have mattered

I ran a small Nomad cluster next to my k3s for a month to compare, and I have unsurprising opinions

After years of excuses I enabled IPv6 end to end at home, and most of the friction came from devices I did not expect

My Proxmox host kept ballooning to 60 GB of ARC and starving VMs, and the fix was not what I expected

After a year of running both, here's where each one earned its keep and where I'd pick differently next time

Eight pictures of the small, somewhat embarrassing server rack in my closet.

A local DNS override on my Pi-hole would come back for a day and then mysteriously vanish, and the culprit was a docker-compose restart policy

Three ex-enterprise 1U boxes, a UPS, and a wife who sleeps ten feet away. What I did about the noise, the heat, and the power bill.