Notes on software, systems, self-hosting, and whatever else I’m tinkering with.
Homelab
Here’s a breakdown of everything running in my homelab: hardware, network, virtualisation, storage, and services. The main reason I built all of this was to stop depending on big cloud providers and take back ownership of my own data. Too much of what I relied on day to day was sitting on someone else’s servers, subject to their pricing, their outages, and their terms. Having a fully functional lab that works even when the internet goes down is genuinely satisfying. There is something rewarding about knowing your photos, files, and media live on hardware you own and control. As a bonus it let me cut the cord on Google storage, iCloud, Netflix, and other streaming subscriptions without feeling like I was giving anything up. ...