A lot has changed in my homelab this year. Most folks in r/homelab start from Pi or a NAS / router to a mini-datacenter at home. But things were quite opposite in my case. I have downsized my homelab to a small network cabinet. Two servers are powered off and one got faulty. Things have shifted to small synology DS920+. pfsense is replaced by mikrotik hex S router. Main reason for downsizing are,...
Many people reacted to the announcement by microsoft to stop support for IE on twitter recently. It felt nostalgic for me too. I first started using a PC around 1998-99. I was in 6th grade maybe. As far as I could remember, it had Samsung samtron CRT monitor, a CPU with some intel processor, 40 GB IDE hard disk and a Dax make dial-up modem connected to PCI card. We had a BSNL landline at home in those days....
Reasons for moving I have been using iPhone for more than 5 years. It started from iPhone 4, 5s, 7, XR etc., iOS is solid and over last few years android has really caught up (not referring UI but stability and usability). Also over the last few years there have been multiple occasions were big tech use our data more and more for personalised ads. I wanted to move to a privacy friendly OS....
My homelab was running on a single dell r210. It had pfsense and few VMs, all the self-hosted apps were deployed using docker. Things were running fine for more than a year but i was missing high-availability, since i had only one server. I wanted my services to be available always! To achieve high availability on proxmox you need 3 servers minimum. Thus the hunt for 2 more began! Hardware Upgrades Many say olx is a bad place and full of scammers....
HTTPS for Homelab When I wanted to install bitwarden_rs (now vaultwarden), i read their wiki and got struck with an idea to setup my homelab apps behind https. Then the hunt for reverse proxies started and i settled down with caddy after trying out nginx and traefik (both are good, but not suitable for my usecase). Caddy is a simple configurable reverse proxy and webserver. I use it as reverse proxy and HTTPS provider for all my homelab apps....