Please bathe thine eyes upon my beastly powerhouse of a home server.
The machine that serves as the main leviathan of the setup is an almighty Dell Inspiron 5537 laptop, boasting a robust multicore CPU (the mighty i5-4200U - yes, two entire cores), one-eighth of 64 GB of RAM (that’s 8 GB of glorious DDR3L), and an almost infinite amount of storage - if you define infinity as 512 GB of SSD and 1 TB of HDD space. Its LCD display is slowly fading into the void, adding character. The wireless network is held together by a TP-Link AC1200 router, valiantly serving as an access point and blessing the flat with not one, but two entire bands of Wi-Fi - 2.4 and 5 GHz - and some extra warmth for the feline princesses we’re lucky enough to share the house with. The unsung hero of this kingdo…
Please bathe thine eyes upon my beastly powerhouse of a home server.
The machine that serves as the main leviathan of the setup is an almighty Dell Inspiron 5537 laptop, boasting a robust multicore CPU (the mighty i5-4200U - yes, two entire cores), one-eighth of 64 GB of RAM (that’s 8 GB of glorious DDR3L), and an almost infinite amount of storage - if you define infinity as 512 GB of SSD and 1 TB of HDD space. Its LCD display is slowly fading into the void, adding character. The wireless network is held together by a TP-Link AC1200 router, valiantly serving as an access point and blessing the flat with not one, but two entire bands of Wi-Fi - 2.4 and 5 GHz - and some extra warmth for the feline princesses we’re lucky enough to share the house with. The unsung hero of this kingdom hides in the wall: an old, battle-worn MikroTik hAP ac², carrying a 64 GB USB stick in its port like King Arthur carried Excalibur. Jokes aside, it’s an amazing little device, and RouterOS is astonishingly powerful. All these godlike devices combine their powers to run... umm... Pi-hole, Jellyfin, an *arr stack (qBittorrent, Radarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, Jellyseerr), Immich, and Seafile. I can check the system and access the terminal using Cockpit (or SSH). The laptop runs Linux Mint XFCE, and I use Portainer to manage the Docker stacks and containers. Everything runs locally, and while I could access it remotely through MikroTik’s Back to Home VPN, I rarely bother. There’s also a Windows laptop and an LG smart TV (mostly used for Jellyfin) clinging to the Wi-Fi network.
At the moment, everything works perfectly, and I haven’t touched the setup or containers in weeks.
Cat tax paid. Thanks for letting my pile of random old gear slip between the racks of cutting-edge setups here.