My home lab and projects landed me a entry level tech job. Nothing super glamours but coming from trucking it's a start. Once I started talking about all the projects I did it impressed them. Great to do. Fun and educational.
Why is everyone 'Home Labbing'??? Well, you and Network Chuck and Techno Tim and Hardware Haven keep telling me I have to home lab or I'm a loser. Duh.
I do it for fun. It started with a Pi-hole, then some UniFi gear, then UNRAID on my old computer, then moving to proxmox and Truenas on older free PC’s I’ve gotten. I also love to keep stuff out of the landfill for a while if I can. SO now I host stuff 90% for my self and I love to learn docker.
Just a FYI. Storage Spaces will do the pooling of various drive sizes with redundancy. It'll even do multi-parity drive configurations. Works by placing the drives in a pool, then when you make the virtual disks you select the amount of parity you want.
According to the Homelab subreddit, "homelab" is a full enterprise system inside a house. You have to have a complete domain, all the bits you'd see in a Fortune 500 company HQ. Anything less is just self-hosting. The way I see it, if you have two computers dedicated to different tasks, that's a homelab. I really want to split my system up- put torrents on one box, media server on another, keep my current rig in its HTPC role, etc. But I don't need authentication servers and all the other widgets to make that happen.
Redditors making up definitions and then being pedantic about them is my favorite part of the community lol. I agree with you though as long as you've set up another system to offload some work from your main system you're homelabbing
He’s spot on. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been onboarded to new projects at work because I already had experience in the technology from home labbing.
For me, I started out by getting a Pi Zero W to block ads using Pi-hole. I then started doing some smart home stuff with Homebridge and Infinitude (it allows me to control our smart thermostat locally -- only works with Bryant ones tho). Then eventually during Uni I meet some friends and they got me into the idea of running a NAS (TrueNAS) and Home Assistant, and from there I've branched out a lot and have many things self hosted. I've learned a ton and it's made my life a lot easier (better smart home stuff, easier storage management, etc.)
It's cool to see the stuff that I and my housemates were into as students 20 years ago (back then, using our old AMD Athlon PCs as a household file/web server running Debian Linux) is still a goer in a much more expanded way.
I got into Home Labbing waaaaaaay back in the late 90s, early 2000s. We're talking back when Pentiums of whatever brand was there. The reason was simple. I'd want to run game servers on one computer, while I played the game on my "main rig" of the time. Then file sharing across the rest of the house where I'd run a PC with a phat multi-gigabyte drive and share files with all the other computers in the house. Running mIRC on one machine to act as a channel admin bot while I "logged off" my main machine. Then I started to work for a computer shop and that dealt with learning Linux to a small degree, and learned a little bit about virtualization. I'd run small web servers, and applications, and file servers and all that kinda stuff on "retired from gaming" systems after upgrading. I now run a 3-server set of retired server grade hardware, amounting to about 600gig of RAM, 104 threads worth of CPU, couple tens of TBs of drive space, and so on. At home. Running in my basement. Locked down and barely exposed to the internet. I have a dedicated PC for my programming machine, obviously my main gaming rig, two gaming laptops, my wife has her own set of machines, my kids have their own gaming machines. If I train them right, my two dogs and cat would have their own machines. The rabbits don't show any interest in tech. But seriously, having the 3-server set, it's fantastic. Proxmox on the machines, and when I need a 'Nix machine up and going, 20 minutes later, done (With all the patching and downloading, etc).
Was the CasaOS comment meant to be a dig?! Presented about homelabbing to a club at my college the other night, you and those you had chip in on what a homelab is were all featured as great resources. Thanks to all of you for sharing your knowledge and experience!
Really solid take. Look, use what you love. I use ProxMox, hosted Truenas (passing through an LSI & an Asus 4X NVME) on a 5955WX Pro Threadripper. It's amazing that on good days you can find threadripper pro parts (especially 3945/3955/5945/5955) at fair rates on Ebay/etc. and stuff them with memory. The PCI-E lanes matter to me to handle enough drives. I'm using a more basic Rosewill case but it supports 15 sled drives, so that's OK (4U). I stacked it up with 16Gb drives and I'm good for a while. When it comes to virtualization, it is so sad that the person who maintained proxmox scripts passed away; thanks to the community for keeping his work alive.
I don't think EVERYONE is home labbing. I have 3 NAS, some VM's and a few cameras but I don't think that quite makes me a home labber. And, among my friends and acquaintances, I don't know anyone with anywhere close to this amount of computer gear. As to why anyone does it, I can only say for myself that as my eyes were opened with my first NAS with what it could do, natural curiosity took over and I kept doing more stuff with them. I'm still not sure if I should love you and your peers or hate you for all of the time and money that I've spent but the education and entertainment has been invaluable. Thank you all for that.
As soon as you have any virtualization stuff at home, you're home labbing. Nobody needs virtual servers to run anything that is essential at home in 2024.
@@V1N_574 Yeah, I get it. It's just a YT click bait word for the algo's like the "abandoned" x, y, or z that I just paid $10,000 for. It's the world we live in.
I got into home labbing after years of working with rack servers and finding out that I could buy a sufficiently old used one relatively cheaply. More recently it's evolved into hosting my own open-source AI stuff. Good intro video, and the analysis paralysis is real. Even 3 years into running my lab, I still run into it constantly. It would definitely be helpful to have some kind of framework to build from; recommended/essential services to start with that open doors to new possibilities, and how to decide what goes in the framework. This could be the first video in a near endless series...
Totally agree! It would be great to have alternative tracks to follow with complete examples including backup, monitoring, security, remote access, etc.
I started out just setting up a NAS with only local access for my parents with an RPi 4 Openmediavault and a HDD. My dad always has issues, and I'm not there to play tech support... I then got an old i7 4770 PC, put OMV on it and ZFS two HDDs for my data. I learned to set up a wireguard vpn to access it from anywhere, set up nextcloud, and pihole in docker containers. That was when I really understood the power of my server, because I could upload the pictures I took every day to my NAS from Italy, and I could access websites just like from home. Folders on my phone get automatically uploaded to nextcloud, no need to pay for google space! Home labbing for me is a lot of fun, and I get a usually functional product at the end! I'm going to upgrade to tailscale and host nextcloud for my parents, brother, and fiance, and maybe even a jellyfin server is in the cards.
I started my Homelab with just a small windows server for network drives for a media center and then moved on to a RaspberryPi 4 which has Pi-Hole (adblocking) and Unbound on it for my DNS lookups. My HP MicroServer Gen 10 with Windows Server on it is for housing my network shares for my HTPC downstairs. The server also has FTP setup so I can upload and download files from it no matter where I am in the world. As Yoda once said "size matters not" if there is something that you want to do in your home for tinkering or anything or even just adblocking (PiHole, Adguard etc) then grab a Pi and go for it. You can always expand later on down the line.
just to nitpick a bit: - Containers = a specific kind of environment (for applications to run on) - LXC = Linux-based system container implementation and APIs (run isolated Linux environments or distributions on the host's kernel, basically) - Docker = fork or reimplementation of LXC to move the focus from system containers to application containers (entrypoint moved from /sbin/init to /bin/bash so to speak, can't do systemd by default) - LXD = LXC container management platform/tool (this is for LXCs the same as Kubernetes is for application/docker containers) - (P)CT = Proxmox's own implementation/integration of LXC's into their VE (Virtual Environment) platform
I do not know if you know this, but VMware is free for personal use on Windows, and VMware lets you host TrueNAS with hard drive pass-through. I am saying this because with VirtualBox, I tried to do a hard drive pass-through it didn't let me because every time I try to make a pool, it's always losing the hard drive, but VMware has the option of hard drive pass-through, so VMware makes it easy to host a TrueNAS server pulsed other hosting application. VirtualBox and VMware are two good option to use on Windows computers if you want to host applications.
You are correct. Each person has their reason for a home lab. It all starts with a use case. What is your use case? Once you figure that out, you can start building.
I have many home labs. The proxmox cluster type, audio production lab, and the lovely electrical engineering lab. So many tables, so many overhead lights,so many shelves
It feels great HomeLabbing and has helped me to offer more of my worth to my current job to allow us to do more and monitor things better to have a better understanding of what we are deploying and also to better support our clients with different technologies under one roof and a single device deployed on-site.
Love this! Sharing with peeps. UnRaid was my gateway drug & still running as my dev NAS. Love the ease of use & is my #1 suggestion for folks just getting started. I now have… “prod” QNAP NAS, UnRaid dev NAS, a Pi CM4 2.5” SSD NAS, & a decomm’d 45Drives Stornado flipping between Proxmox & Windows10. Hoping to virtualize the Windows machine but… NVIDIA.
My "home lab" started because I wanted my computers off my desk and I wasn't willing to put them on the floor. A 25U rack, two Rosewill 4U chassis later and I thought I was done. Now I have all kinds of shenanigans going on. I am officially a data hoarder now. What started as just a way to clear off my desk has turned into a 20 bay 4U storage box, a 4U threadripper workstation, a Dell R720XD home security server and an R7910 to play with AI by Christmas. I'm glad my switch has 48 POE ports.
Come on! HomeLabbin is about building rack full of equipment that is less than 10% utilized, that you can then show to other sysadmins to make them envious 😀
Great video, on point. Wonderful also seeing other YTers throwing in their two cents (tuppence for Jim). I stumbled into this realm studying my A+ and wanting more hands-on experience. I’m now working through Network+ and have a pi-hole and pi-NAS in the closet, two laptops and two nucs (running Ubuntu, Win10 & Win11), and building my first cluster. Looking to explore proxmox and docker over the winter, with an eye on ansible. There are so many routes to pursue I feel like a kid in their first candy store. You and your fellow content makers are providing the vector and encouragement to explore, question and succeed. Thanks and happy Thanksgiving 🦃👍
I love tech, but I get bored with how some tech has stagnated lately. So, I’ve jumped into the networking space & started using UniFi gear & love it. I’m learning a lot & having fun at the same time. My next project is smart home automation oh so much fun. 😂😂😂🎉🎉
Homelabbing is a slippery slope to buying thousands of dollars of loud hot servers, this can cause your SO to evict you to the couch. Its also a great way to benchmark your wallet's bandwidth
I can't call my single home server a "homelab", but I was planning on having a media center PC to watch movies on when I've friends come by. Then I said "why don't I expand the use case for this PC since I also want to keep backups as well? One thing brought the other and basically my home server is now a backup/media center/nas/game server thing.
For me homelabbing is like playing my with my childhood LEGO without being AFOL. I just play with hardware lying around, then I put them back into the box. Except the OMV server, I just don't touch it, so I don't break it.
i started building my homelab cause the settings on my isp router were very limited. honestly there is almost too much information and options that it quickly gets confusing and overwhelming. the hardest part, is understanding what software is right for your use case; setting it all up it's pretty easy with the amount of resources available
If its definition is as simple as self-hosting services useful to me, then my desktop computer is a "home lab". I require more and more self-hosted services to compensate for features that have been formerly available in out-of-the-box solutions, but the software landscape changed to remove those features. Node js for example, just to be able to directly link to files (which used to be a feature at all cloud services and now it's gone), so the links can be resolved into actual displayables for the thumbnails of the new tab browser extension I use. Little things like that all requiring their own solutions which ends up with you contemplating to put all of that on a separate low-powered device so your baseline 24/7 power consumption wouldn't be 203 Watts, so now I have a barebones i3-6100 mini ITX system on my shelf next to the ONT that I have yet to set up with proxmox, pfsense, ubuntu server, URL cleaning reverse proxy and pi hole as the end goal (along with the scripts I have on my desktop).
I blame TH-cam for my bad decisions. Paid more for my core switch than the server I recently bought for NAS/homecloud lol. Need to stop bring lazy and get to wiring my house finally and put my stuff in my rack
Regarding hardware choice. As a long time home-labber (going on 20+ years now), the "enterprise" hardware is the sexiest...It's also the most limiting. Great! You built your file server off of 15k RPM SAS drives! ... One failed. Now you have to buy a new one. :| Or, wonderful! You've got ECC memory! ... You only have 32 gigs of it until you can shell out the money for more. Don't even get me started on the nitty gritty about the different types of ECC and which vendors support which types. Consumer grade equipment is often less expensive, and faster. It's not as sexy, but dollar for dollar, it'll be a better fit for your home lab, generally speaking.
Good intro - maybe we'll gain some new enthusiasts! (Oh, and "Hi" to the "usual suspects"! Our super power is the community! And no, I don't have time to start my own TH-cam channel, so... But if you want to collab, we can talk.)
I started homelabing because decades ago I wanted a torrent downloader so I used and old laptop, from that I got a college project which I was given a box that had an internal webserver which I hosted on my dorm for a college presentation and from that the homelab bug bit me and next step was a nas, then dockers happened and it has been an addiction to automate or host everything in my life. 😂hell of a drug though. I'm still at rookie levels, using unraid and hanging out at the comunity apps tab.
Just because something cost money doesn't mean it's good. Money doesn't make it better. I don't say Unraid is bad, just making a point. I can also say the same about free software, just because it's free doesn't make it good. Back in the day when TrueNAS was called FreeNAS, they recommended to run it on a USB stick. But they changed their mind because a USB stick have a tendency to break very fast and are unreliable. I have network issues on Linux stuff. I usually get about half of the speed I should get. If I have a 1 Gbit network I get about 500 Mbit. With 10 Gbit network cards I get about 2 - 4 Gbit
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One thing that makes con of unraid acceptable is that you have perpetual licence which is if i am gonna pay for good software good thing so if i need it one thing i'll do is fork up 249 usd and not have to worry about licence for the rest of my life. This why if i find myself in need of unraid i will get lifetime because i am old school and prefer ownership over subscription.
I started with just one off the shelf Asustor nas to "protect my data". Thousands of dollars and half a decade later, I still use that excuse to justify my purchases lol. $1000 on new hard drives for truenas? That is to protect my data. $1000 on the new mini pc that has nearly the same features as my current opnsense router? That's to protect my data. I should find a new excuse
no mention of just running linux? I mean, you do shout out windows (which is valid -- my first home server was running NT4, and I've got a few Windows VMs kicking around). While I get that truenas & proxmox are really useful interfaces on top of an underlying Linux system, should also mention that you can just run Linux without anything on top if that's your fancy too. The brains of my operation is a CentOS 9 system running freeipa (for an ldap/kerberos domain and in-home certificate authority), podman, and libvirt/kvm for virtualization, though the end goal is actually to be running Openstack
Any recommendations for a homelab SAN implementation ? I want my 12x clients running on iSCSI over my managed 10Gbps LAN. I have 1Gbps Internet. I have three Supermicro Dual Xeon servers built but waiting for software. If I get chose this wrong it will result in a huge waste of my time.
If it would mean the death of Windows I'd smell my own farts. Anyone doing server things on Windows is on the wrong path and that is not hating, that's just stating a proven fact. If people are learning, sure spin up a Linux VM under Windows but actually running/deploying things on Windows is crazy talk.
@@RaidOwl Calling out bad advice is not gatekeeping. The only times I've lost any data was due to Windows, so I'm speaking from painful experience that I'd like to spare others from. Remember when OneDrive decided to delete user data? At this point I've lost count how many times Microsoft was responsible for user data loss.
I have been responsible for Tens of Thousands of windows installations worldwide using windows (and BSD) servers over many years. I have NEVER lost data because of Microsoft, The thing about it is to NOT be creative. Use the software as MS intend you to and don't cut corners.
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Thanks for letting me be a part of this awesome video!
Great video, thanks for including me
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My home lab and projects landed me a entry level tech job. Nothing super glamours but coming from trucking it's a start.
Once I started talking about all the projects I did it impressed them.
Great to do. Fun and educational.
same lol, my supervisor also has a homelab himself and that on my resume said it meant i was truly interesting in tech
may I ask what projects did you do? I'm starting my home lab journey soon, too.
Why is everyone 'Home Labbing'??? Well, you and Network Chuck and Techno Tim and Hardware Haven keep telling me I have to home lab or I'm a loser. Duh.
Omg you added all my favorite tech TH-camrs in one video! Thanks Brett!!
Home labbing is the FUN way to learn stuff in a few days instead of 1 term at college or uni - and much cheaper too! I miss homebrew club.
Love the homelab TH-cam creator community. No jealousy, just support and good fun
I do it for fun. It started with a Pi-hole, then some UniFi gear, then UNRAID on my old computer, then moving to proxmox and Truenas on older free PC’s I’ve gotten. I also love to keep stuff out of the landfill for a while if I can.
SO now I host stuff 90% for my self and I love to learn docker.
Ditto! Except I started with Proxmox then switched to unraid. Set up a Unifi network with teleport and tailscale for remote access.
Just a FYI. Storage Spaces will do the pooling of various drive sizes with redundancy. It'll even do multi-parity drive configurations. Works by placing the drives in a pool, then when you make the virtual disks you select the amount of parity you want.
According to the Homelab subreddit, "homelab" is a full enterprise system inside a house. You have to have a complete domain, all the bits you'd see in a Fortune 500 company HQ. Anything less is just self-hosting.
The way I see it, if you have two computers dedicated to different tasks, that's a homelab. I really want to split my system up- put torrents on one box, media server on another, keep my current rig in its HTPC role, etc. But I don't need authentication servers and all the other widgets to make that happen.
Redditors making up definitions and then being pedantic about them is my favorite part of the community lol. I agree with you though as long as you've set up another system to offload some work from your main system you're homelabbing
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This is a fantastic beginner's entry point into homelabbing!
He’s spot on. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been onboarded to new projects at work because I already had experience in the technology from home labbing.
For me, I started out by getting a Pi Zero W to block ads using Pi-hole. I then started doing some smart home stuff with Homebridge and Infinitude (it allows me to control our smart thermostat locally -- only works with Bryant ones tho). Then eventually during Uni I meet some friends and they got me into the idea of running a NAS (TrueNAS) and Home Assistant, and from there I've branched out a lot and have many things self hosted. I've learned a ton and it's made my life a lot easier (better smart home stuff, easier storage management, etc.)
I love this Home Lab community. Great seeing my favorite creators share the space like this.
It's cool to see the stuff that I and my housemates were into as students 20 years ago (back then, using our old AMD Athlon PCs as a household file/web server running Debian Linux) is still a goer in a much more expanded way.
I got into Home Labbing waaaaaaay back in the late 90s, early 2000s. We're talking back when Pentiums of whatever brand was there. The reason was simple. I'd want to run game servers on one computer, while I played the game on my "main rig" of the time. Then file sharing across the rest of the house where I'd run a PC with a phat multi-gigabyte drive and share files with all the other computers in the house. Running mIRC on one machine to act as a channel admin bot while I "logged off" my main machine. Then I started to work for a computer shop and that dealt with learning Linux to a small degree, and learned a little bit about virtualization. I'd run small web servers, and applications, and file servers and all that kinda stuff on "retired from gaming" systems after upgrading.
I now run a 3-server set of retired server grade hardware, amounting to about 600gig of RAM, 104 threads worth of CPU, couple tens of TBs of drive space, and so on. At home. Running in my basement. Locked down and barely exposed to the internet.
I have a dedicated PC for my programming machine, obviously my main gaming rig, two gaming laptops, my wife has her own set of machines, my kids have their own gaming machines.
If I train them right, my two dogs and cat would have their own machines. The rabbits don't show any interest in tech.
But seriously, having the 3-server set, it's fantastic. Proxmox on the machines, and when I need a 'Nix machine up and going, 20 minutes later, done (With all the patching and downloading, etc).
Was the CasaOS comment meant to be a dig?!
Presented about homelabbing to a club at my college the other night, you and those you had chip in on what a homelab is were all featured as great resources. Thanks to all of you for sharing your knowledge and experience!
Really solid take. Look, use what you love. I use ProxMox, hosted Truenas (passing through an LSI & an Asus 4X NVME) on a 5955WX Pro Threadripper. It's amazing that on good days you can find threadripper pro parts (especially 3945/3955/5945/5955) at fair rates on Ebay/etc. and stuff them with memory. The PCI-E lanes matter to me to handle enough drives. I'm using a more basic Rosewill case but it supports 15 sled drives, so that's OK (4U). I stacked it up with 16Gb drives and I'm good for a while. When it comes to virtualization, it is so sad that the person who maintained proxmox scripts passed away; thanks to the community for keeping his work alive.
I don't think EVERYONE is home labbing. I have 3 NAS, some VM's and a few cameras but I don't think that quite makes me a home labber. And, among my friends and acquaintances, I don't know anyone with anywhere close to this amount of computer gear. As to why anyone does it, I can only say for myself that as my eyes were opened with my first NAS with what it could do, natural curiosity took over and I kept doing more stuff with them. I'm still not sure if I should love you and your peers or hate you for all of the time and money that I've spent but the education and entertainment has been invaluable. Thank you all for that.
As soon as you have any virtualization stuff at home, you're home labbing. Nobody needs virtual servers to run anything that is essential at home in 2024.
@@Traumatree Well, technically my VM's are not servers, just Windows, Linux, and Home Assistant, but I get your point.
"Everyone" is like sayin 60% of the time it works all the time... 😂😂😂
@@V1N_574 Yeah, I get it. It's just a YT click bait word for the algo's like the "abandoned" x, y, or z that I just paid $10,000 for. It's the world we live in.
I got into home labbing after years of working with rack servers and finding out that I could buy a sufficiently old used one relatively cheaply. More recently it's evolved into hosting my own open-source AI stuff. Good intro video, and the analysis paralysis is real. Even 3 years into running my lab, I still run into it constantly. It would definitely be helpful to have some kind of framework to build from; recommended/essential services to start with that open doors to new possibilities, and how to decide what goes in the framework. This could be the first video in a near endless series...
Totally agree! It would be great to have alternative tracks to follow with complete examples including backup, monitoring, security, remote access, etc.
I started out just setting up a NAS with only local access for my parents with an RPi 4 Openmediavault and a HDD. My dad always has issues, and I'm not there to play tech support... I then got an old i7 4770 PC, put OMV on it and ZFS two HDDs for my data. I learned to set up a wireguard vpn to access it from anywhere, set up nextcloud, and pihole in docker containers. That was when I really understood the power of my server, because I could upload the pictures I took every day to my NAS from Italy, and I could access websites just like from home. Folders on my phone get automatically uploaded to nextcloud, no need to pay for google space! Home labbing for me is a lot of fun, and I get a usually functional product at the end! I'm going to upgrade to tailscale and host nextcloud for my parents, brother, and fiance, and maybe even a jellyfin server is in the cards.
I started my Homelab with just a small windows server for network drives for a media center and then moved on to a RaspberryPi 4 which has Pi-Hole (adblocking) and Unbound on it for my DNS lookups. My HP MicroServer Gen 10 with Windows Server on it is for housing my network shares for my HTPC downstairs. The server also has FTP setup so I can upload and download files from it no matter where I am in the world. As Yoda once said "size matters not" if there is something that you want to do in your home for tinkering or anything or even just adblocking (PiHole, Adguard etc) then grab a Pi and go for it. You can always expand later on down the line.
just to nitpick a bit:
- Containers = a specific kind of environment (for applications to run on)
- LXC = Linux-based system container implementation and APIs (run isolated Linux environments or distributions on the host's kernel, basically)
- Docker = fork or reimplementation of LXC to move the focus from system containers to application containers (entrypoint moved from /sbin/init to /bin/bash so to speak, can't do systemd by default)
- LXD = LXC container management platform/tool (this is for LXCs the same as Kubernetes is for application/docker containers)
- (P)CT = Proxmox's own implementation/integration of LXC's into their VE (Virtual Environment) platform
I do not know if you know this, but VMware is free for personal use on Windows, and VMware lets you host TrueNAS with hard drive pass-through. I am saying this because with VirtualBox, I tried to do a hard drive pass-through it didn't let me because every time I try to make a pool, it's always losing the hard drive, but VMware has the option of hard drive pass-through, so VMware makes it easy to host a TrueNAS server pulsed other hosting application. VirtualBox and VMware are two good option to use on Windows computers if you want to host applications.
You are correct. Each person has their reason for a home lab. It all starts with a use case. What is your use case? Once you figure that out, you can start building.
I have many home labs. The proxmox cluster type, audio production lab, and the lovely electrical engineering lab. So many tables, so many overhead lights,so many shelves
Fun labbing is great! Self hosting is the perfect way to be autonomous in an ever growing digital future. Btw, loved the cameos.
It feels great HomeLabbing and has helped me to offer more of my worth to my current job to allow us to do more and monitor things better to have a better understanding of what we are deploying and also to better support our clients with different technologies under one roof and a single device deployed on-site.
Love this! Sharing with peeps.
UnRaid was my gateway drug & still running as my dev NAS. Love the ease of use & is my #1 suggestion for folks just getting started. I now have… “prod” QNAP NAS, UnRaid dev NAS, a Pi CM4 2.5” SSD NAS, & a decomm’d 45Drives Stornado flipping between Proxmox & Windows10. Hoping to virtualize the Windows machine but… NVIDIA.
I didn't knew I wanted this video thank you Mr. Owl
I loved the thumbnail. It makes me feel happy.
Really like the back to back videos on helping people on the fence make that jump
My "home lab" started because I wanted my computers off my desk and I wasn't willing to put them on the floor. A 25U rack, two Rosewill 4U chassis later and I thought I was done. Now I have all kinds of shenanigans going on. I am officially a data hoarder now.
What started as just a way to clear off my desk has turned into a 20 bay 4U storage box, a 4U threadripper workstation, a Dell R720XD home security server and an R7910 to play with AI by Christmas. I'm glad my switch has 48 POE ports.
Come on! HomeLabbin is about building rack full of equipment that is less than 10% utilized, that you can then show to other sysadmins to make them envious 😀
Thanks for justifying my insane hobby. Keep up the great work!
Great video, on point. Wonderful also seeing other YTers throwing in their two cents (tuppence for Jim).
I stumbled into this realm studying my A+ and wanting more hands-on experience. I’m now working through Network+ and have a pi-hole and pi-NAS in the closet, two laptops and two nucs (running Ubuntu, Win10 & Win11), and building my first cluster. Looking to explore proxmox and docker over the winter, with an eye on ansible. There are so many routes to pursue I feel like a kid in their first candy store. You and your fellow content makers are providing the vector and encouragement to explore, question and succeed. Thanks and happy Thanksgiving 🦃👍
I love tech, but I get bored with how some tech has stagnated lately. So, I’ve jumped into the networking space & started using UniFi gear & love it. I’m learning a lot & having fun at the same time. My next project is smart home automation oh so much fun. 😂😂😂🎉🎉
Unraid's ability to use multiple siz wed drives is what sold it for me. I had a couple 8tb, 10tb, and 12tb drives and it was really the only option
Homelabbing is a slippery slope to buying thousands of dollars of loud hot servers, this can cause your SO to evict you to the couch. Its also a great way to benchmark your wallet's bandwidth
Benchmark your wallet's bandwidth 😂😂😂
Random guy justified my purchase. Haha and nice colab
Because when we hit the casual/consumer product limits, next step is doing it ourselves. 👍
I am a bit disappointed that Wolfgang isn't in the ... gang.
But the guide is solid for beginners. Thank you.
Man you're right
So many people confuse HomeLab with HomeProd, and thus it seems to have *way* more people than it actually does.
C'Mon... Everyone Secretly likes their Own Farts LOL
3:30 I can really relate to this. Happens to me a lot.
I can't call my single home server a "homelab", but I was planning on having a media center PC to watch movies on when I've friends come by. Then I said "why don't I expand the use case for this PC since I also want to keep backups as well? One thing brought the other and basically my home server is now a backup/media center/nas/game server thing.
5:51 "...reuse laptops..." So many laptops flooding the planet right now
I now have my own frankenlab, mainly thanks you Raid Owl👍
3:45 that girl really likes you head 😂😂
3:52 what was that guy doing with his hand LOL
I call Bingo on all these homelaber guys - watching and subscribed to all of them! What price have I won? 😬🤪😇
For me homelabbing is like playing my with my childhood LEGO without being AFOL. I just play with hardware lying around, then I put them back into the box. Except the OMV server, I just don't touch it, so I don't break it.
Spot on video!
i started building my homelab cause the settings on my isp router were very limited.
honestly there is almost too much information and options that it quickly gets confusing and overwhelming.
the hardest part, is understanding what software is right for your use case; setting it all up it's pretty easy with the amount of resources available
That's the thing about appliances, someone has did most of the hard work.
😢 good to know I'm not a weirdo for taking an interest in this stuff
Only people missing are LevelOne tech, Network Chuck, Linus, and Craft computing.
It’s an easy way to make use of your old unused systems.
If its definition is as simple as self-hosting services useful to me, then my desktop computer is a "home lab".
I require more and more self-hosted services to compensate for features that have been formerly available in out-of-the-box solutions, but the software landscape changed to remove those features. Node js for example, just to be able to directly link to files (which used to be a feature at all cloud services and now it's gone), so the links can be resolved into actual displayables for the thumbnails of the new tab browser extension I use.
Little things like that all requiring their own solutions which ends up with you contemplating to put all of that on a separate low-powered device so your baseline 24/7 power consumption wouldn't be 203 Watts, so now I have a barebones i3-6100 mini ITX system on my shelf next to the ONT that I have yet to set up with proxmox, pfsense, ubuntu server, URL cleaning reverse proxy and pi hole as the end goal (along with the scripts I have on my desktop).
I blame TH-cam for my bad decisions. Paid more for my core switch than the server I recently bought for NAS/homecloud lol. Need to stop bring lazy and get to wiring my house finally and put my stuff in my rack
I'm homelabing because I don't think Google,Amazon, etc. Has great intentions with my information
Regarding hardware choice. As a long time home-labber (going on 20+ years now), the "enterprise" hardware is the sexiest...It's also the most limiting. Great! You built your file server off of 15k RPM SAS drives! ... One failed. Now you have to buy a new one. :| Or, wonderful! You've got ECC memory! ... You only have 32 gigs of it until you can shell out the money for more. Don't even get me started on the nitty gritty about the different types of ECC and which vendors support which types.
Consumer grade equipment is often less expensive, and faster. It's not as sexy, but dollar for dollar, it'll be a better fit for your home lab, generally speaking.
Im so down for homelabbing soon! I need my intro with some given hardware.
Thanks.
Almost spit up my drink when I saw Raid Owl's leg flash. lol
;)
Oh my god !!! I am really using CasaOS 😂
Good intro - maybe we'll gain some new enthusiasts! (Oh, and "Hi" to the "usual suspects"! Our super power is the community! And no, I don't have time to start my own TH-cam channel, so... But if you want to collab, we can talk.)
My choice for now is VMware on Windows. I just have installed Kubuntu and made sshd availible to use by WSL.
I started homelabing because decades ago I wanted a torrent downloader so I used and old laptop, from that I got a college project which I was given a box that had an internal webserver which I hosted on my dorm for a college presentation and from that the homelab bug bit me and next step was a nas, then dockers happened and it has been an addiction to automate or host everything in my life. 😂hell of a drug though. I'm still at rookie levels, using unraid and hanging out at the comunity apps tab.
Just because something cost money doesn't mean it's good. Money doesn't make it better.
I don't say Unraid is bad, just making a point.
I can also say the same about free software, just because it's free doesn't make it good.
Back in the day when TrueNAS was called FreeNAS, they recommended to run it on a USB stick.
But they changed their mind because a USB stick have a tendency to break very fast and are unreliable.
I have network issues on Linux stuff. I usually get about half of the speed I should get.
If I have a 1 Gbit network I get about 500 Mbit. With 10 Gbit network cards I get about 2 - 4 Gbit
Home labbers of the world unite and take over.
You're doing a fantastic job! Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
Is Homelabbing the new vocabulary for the age old DIY Learning🤔. Also seems more towards existing software stacks.
Its fun! 🎉
Almost an alternative to unraid would be mergerfs/snapraid
You do have to set it up yourself and the parity is snapshot based, not realtime.
"Don't look away". Ha!
pretty dissapointed not seeing any blackfriday deals
One thing that makes con of unraid acceptable is that you have perpetual licence which is if i am gonna pay for good software good thing so if i need it one thing i'll do is fork up 249 usd and not have to worry about licence for the rest of my life. This why if i find myself in need of unraid i will get lifetime because i am old school and prefer ownership over subscription.
Yeah this is their new pricing model which I totally understand...but I miss the old model
@RaidOwl so you prefer subscriptions?
@@raughboy188 The old model wasn't a subscription and was cheaper for a lifetime license.
@@RaidOwl I see. It would be nicer if it was cheaper. Perpetual licence nowadays is rarely found.
I started with just one off the shelf Asustor nas to "protect my data". Thousands of dollars and half a decade later, I still use that excuse to justify my purchases lol. $1000 on new hard drives for truenas? That is to protect my data. $1000 on the new mini pc that has nearly the same features as my current opnsense router? That's to protect my data. I should find a new excuse
no mention of just running linux? I mean, you do shout out windows (which is valid -- my first home server was running NT4, and I've got a few Windows VMs kicking around). While I get that truenas & proxmox are really useful interfaces on top of an underlying Linux system, should also mention that you can just run Linux without anything on top if that's your fancy too. The brains of my operation is a CentOS 9 system running freeipa (for an ldap/kerberos domain and in-home certificate authority), podman, and libvirt/kvm for virtualization, though the end goal is actually to be running Openstack
Go to 6:15 in the video and report back please
To have a reason to buy toys and have fun 😂
Any recommendations for a homelab SAN implementation ? I want my 12x clients running on iSCSI over my managed 10Gbps LAN. I have 1Gbps Internet. I have three Supermicro Dual Xeon servers built but waiting for software. If I get chose this wrong it will result in a huge waste of my time.
Cant wait for all the home labbers to switch to XCPNG once their new eye candy Xen Orch 6 gets released :D
Some home lab from youtuber with a $5000 plus setup also with another $3000 network.
bruh that a whole IT department at that point.
It’s way more than $5000 bro
@@RaidOwl I am leaving💀
Adios
You need to use an adblocker
Why
@@RaidOwl I was just joking about the screenshots in the first of the video that were full of ads
Lol I know 😆
For me homelab is basically just a home for all my stolen content
“Something that supports ddr4”
Looks at Intel 2600K in main gaming computer, “don’t listen to him you’re beautiful”
Here for option 2, lol
I don’t get the case os joke at the end what am I missing
Unraid makes people like me do things I shouldn't be able to do
Why? Because I have saved us over $400 PER MONTH in subscriptions by finding and hosting free open source alternatives. Suck it MRR corporate greed.
What is it: a waste of money
Why do people do it: to waste money
How do i get into it: waste some money
J/k….kinda 😆
I save money for friends and family who use my server tho!
@@WhyitJellyDonut true! Was just a joke about how addictive homelab can be once you get started :)
Homelabbing is a way to piss off ur wife...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why ISN'T everyone home labbing??? :)
Windows Hyper V 👍
If it would mean the death of Windows I'd smell my own farts. Anyone doing server things on Windows is on the wrong path and that is not hating, that's just stating a proven fact.
If people are learning, sure spin up a Linux VM under Windows but actually running/deploying things on Windows is crazy talk.
Stop gatekeeping
@@RaidOwl Calling out bad advice is not gatekeeping. The only times I've lost any data was due to Windows, so I'm speaking from painful experience that I'd like to spare others from. Remember when OneDrive decided to delete user data? At this point I've lost count how many times Microsoft was responsible for user data loss.
Lol…
I have been responsible for Tens of Thousands of windows installations worldwide using windows (and BSD) servers over many years. I have NEVER lost data because of Microsoft, The thing about it is to NOT be creative. Use the software as MS intend you to and don't cut corners.
@@adrianandrews2254 Then you must be a unicorn
How you going to mention Windows and not talk about Hyper-V lol
It was pretty easy tbh
@ I mean you not wrong lol
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