Personally will be trying to transform my server which is currently in a fractal R5 case, into a small-ish Homelab rack, combined with all my network equipment. Will require complete relocation of all network equipment in the house as well as cables so it will be a bit of a project. Also on the lookout for a good quality rack so let me know if you have any recs. Still unsure if u want to do full width rack or mini. Part of me really want the UDM Pro from Unifi…

What are your goals and thing you want to accomplish during 2025?

  • Cardstock9913@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago
    • Log Monitoring and Collection.
    • More storage for my plex/nextcloud servers
    • VLANs for my servers.
    • Move to K8s
    • Better service monitoring
    • New server to set devpods up on
  • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 days ago
    1. Install Comms box in office.
    2. Get Unifi switch.
    3. Run Cat6A to all rooms of house.
    4. Consolidate NUC and N100’s fewer devices.
    5. Install 2x U6 Wall units. 6 Begin scoping Surveillance cameras. Torn between Synology and Unifi.
  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    Probably a hardware upgrade of some kind. The i5-7500 is not cutting it for Minecraft servers with mods and Arma 3 servers, single thread performance is just too slow. So I may grab an i3-14100 or similar and a motherboard and do that swap.

  • mat@linux.communityEnglish
    2·
    16 days ago

    I want to move my whole server to NixOS. It’s gotten to the point where I have no idea where all the Ubuntu config files went, and handling half of it via Docker vs baremetal. I hope this will allow me to set up proper backups as well, and maybe get better at Nix! I started a few days ago using the VM feature, but it’s tricky to work on for now, perhaps I haven’t found the right workflow.

    • Xamino@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      I went this route from the start and love it. In case you need some resources:

      Hope this helps a bit. I found the effort to be very worth it, but took me almost half a year to get comfortable with it.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Tried it didn’t like it. To much work to get somethings working. Went back to docker.

    • Sean@infosec.pubEnglish
      0·
      16 days ago

      Is there a reason(s) you’re doing NixOS over something like ProxMox? A friend of mine has been moving his lab over to ProxMox containers so i was thinking to do the same thing, but curious about NixOS since I’ve seen a few people mention it. Thanks!

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        The entirety of Nix configuration is in somewhere between 1 and 3 files depending on how you like your poison.

        It’s immutable, so stuff can’t just change on you.

        Every change you make is stored into a new configuration and you can roll back to any configuration you’ve ever done with a reboot, so it’s kind of hard to brick it.

        Apps can’t just go in and modify your users or your host table or any of the other configs so it’s got an extra layer of security. But then, the package system has more packages than God and is maintained by a million randos with very little oversight.

        It has some substantially neat tricks. I moved from one box to another by just doing a fresh install, moving its three configuration files and letting syncthing rebuild my home directory from my other box.

        I think, if I were going to use Nix as a home server, I just install all of the services directly on the OS. Updates and configurations for everything would be maintained by Nix itself.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Nix is great if your fine with the packages and configuration they provide. If you want other stuff or features not provided it is a giant pain in the ass and not worth it. And you’ll get oh just write a flake or just write a package file for it.

    • Tinkerer@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      This, my ssd randomly disappeared on my proxmox server January 1st so I had to start from scratch. Didn’t have any docker compose backups or lxc backups… I suppose this time I can do everything right now lol

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    14 days ago

    Might get around to tidying this 20-year-old mess up a bit - tho I’m not sure where to start lol.

    I am not a proud man.

  • tofuwabohu@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    Most important: replace the raspi SD card with an SSD

    General hardware: see if I find a better solution than my current Proxmox box (repurposed desktop which consumes 60w idling but is capped to 16GB Ram)

    Incoming traffic: currently having a VM that runs nothing but nginx and certbot. Considering switching to another reverse proxy and, more important, get proper monitoring of the logs (e.g. IP detection, 403, etc)

    Maybe add some iam like authentik

    Finding a solution for selfhosting podcasts client with sync on Android and Linux… gpodder never really seemed to work, considering audiobookshelf.

    Probably setting up calibre web and gethomepage

    Keeping what I have and maybe optimize a bit:

    • Prometheus stack
    • plenty exporters
    • Nextcloud
    • paperless
    • home assistant, mosquitto
    • pihole
    • vaultwarden
    • selfoss

    On VPS:

    • Mastodon
    • Bookwyrm
    • some WordPress (want to move this to my homeserver as well)
  • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    16 days ago

    Got a 3 year old kid with another on the way. I just need it to be reliable so the kid can watch Sesame Street and the lights keep working.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
    2·
    16 days ago

    I think what I need to do correctly on my homelab this year, is setup off-site backups. I currently only backup to seperate drives and machines inside my own home. I need to setup something at my parents place to take weekly and monthly backups.

    Other than that, my media server needs a bigger storage drive.