My little homelab
A small rack full of toys: Proxmox, NAS, Pi cluster and a Minecraft server for friends.
Over time I slowly built a small homelab to play with servers, networking and self‑hosted services.
Hardware stack
In the rack there is a TP‑Link 8‑port PoE switch, a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q mini PC, and a QNAP TS‑464 NAS with 6 TB drives in a RAID level that uses three disks for data and one for redundancy.
I also run a Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 cluster, plus a Pi Zero 2 W with Pi‑hole for DNS blocking. Power is backed by an 850 VA UPS and a couple of smart Wi‑Fi sockets.
Networking & cabling
The network side uses a CAT7 patch panel, but I only run CAT6a ethernet cables to the rooms. It’s more than enough for what I’m doing right now.
Services on Proxmox
On the M910q I installed Proxmox. On top of that I run a small homepage, Checkmk, Uptime Kuma, Tailscale, Home Assistant, Portainer and AMP.
AMP is what I use the most: with 64 GB RAM I give about 20 GB to a Minecraft server for friends, even though my upload is only around 20 Mbit/s.
What’s next
The next big step is a deeper dive into Home Assistant and maybe adding Zigbee devices later. That will probably get its own blog post once everything is set up.