Welcome to my home… lab!
That’s right—this site is fully self-hosted, so if you’re reading this right now, then you’ve made your way to my homelab server rack, currently humming away in my basement. So, how’d we get there? Let me explain.
If you’ve read my about page, then you already know that I’ve had a passion for tech for as long as I can remember. But my homelab journey specifically began in December 2022, when I bought a Raspberry Pi 4 to run Pi-hole as a local DNS server. At the time, I had no idea what it would grow into.
Many months and many Raspberry Pis later—along with several mini PCs, countless plan changes, a mountain of new technologies and terminologies to learn, a full custom server build, piles of networking gear, more late-night troubleshooting than I care to admit, and hundreds of hours spent overall—I’ve built something I’m genuinely proud of.
Today, my homelab features a full UniFi network stack, a ZFS-based NAS running TrueNAS SCALE, a high-availability 3-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph distributed storage, and numerous self-hosted services. It’s all backed by dual UPSes and neatly housed in a 15U rack. (I’ll cover all the details in an upcoming post.)
As for this site? At the very least, it’ll be a place for me to document the things I’m building, breaking, and fixing—so I can refer back to it later. And at best, maybe someone out there finds something helpful along the way.
Thanks for stopping by!
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