Personally will be trying to transform my server which is currently in a fractal R5 case, into a small-ish Homelab rack, combined with all my network equipment. Will require complete relocation of all network equipment in the house as well as cables so it will be a bit of a project. Also on the lookout for a good quality rack so let me know if you have any recs. Still unsure if u want to do full width rack or mini. Part of me really want the UDM Pro from Unifi…

What are your goals and thing you want to accomplish during 2025?

  • traches@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Got a 3 year old kid with another on the way. I just need it to be reliable so the kid can watch Sesame Street and the lights keep working.

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Learn how to design an implement effective segmentation for my network, get better with OPNsense, and get my private website up and running

  • Cardstock9913@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago
    • Log Monitoring and Collection.
    • More storage for my plex/nextcloud servers
    • VLANs for my servers.
    • Move to K8s
    • Better service monitoring
    • New server to set devpods up on
  • namelivia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Top 1 for me would be a strong backup mechanism, and by that I mean something that is tested. Currently I have restic in place but I don’t even know if in case of a disaster the backups are ok.

    And considering my lack of time, I would be happy with just that.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I think what I need to do correctly on my homelab this year, is setup off-site backups. I currently only backup to seperate drives and machines inside my own home. I need to setup something at my parents place to take weekly and monthly backups.

    Other than that, my media server needs a bigger storage drive.

    • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The fun part is putting it together and watching it all work smoothly! Best of luck dude 👍

      • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I loathe to grind all the software setup, it’s so dull, yet I have to concentrate to not fuck anything up.

        Just wanted to vent.

        Thank you 🫰

  • Drusenija@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    From a hardware perspective I need more storage. Am thinking I’ll probably end up with a second Synology NAS unit before the end of the year with 4 hard drives at whatever a reasonable price vs size point it at the time I do it (likely 12-14Tb drives at this stage). Bought drives 2 at a time last time so I’m running two RAID1 pairs right now on the existing unit - adding 4 new drives at once to the home lab will let me move all that content to the new drives and reformat the existing ones into a RAID5 array and get an extra 12Tb of storage.

    The one I already have does support adding the 5 drive expansion bay, but figuring that with a second NAS I can move some of my Docker instances currently running on a dedicated laptop onto the second NAS which takes one computer out of the setup as well.

    Maintenance wise I’ve just only done my 2024 maintenance stuff that I do each year. This year it was going through my password vault and making sure everything was synced up, had complex passwords, had two factor enabled where applicable, etc, as well as setting up unique email addresses for every service I’m using (they just forward to the same inbox) to help me track who’s been selling my info. Have already found a local fast food outlet who has from that.

    Have also rotated all my SSH keys, made sure they were all upgraded to Ed25519 from RSA, set up unique keys for the three devices I regularly use so I can revoke one individually if required, made sure all my hardware was running the latest updates (my RPi running my Pi-hole instance was still on Buster so I had to get that updated before I could even update Pi-hole), etc.

    Also swapped my Mullvad connection on my gateway to use Wireguard instead of OpenVPN since they’re dropping support later this year.

    Honestly I’d love to invest in some sort of rack mounting for home, its something I should look into some more, but right now I just have a whole section of the wardrobes in my study for equipment and tech storage. It’s working for now although I worry about it in summer with not a massive amount of heat dissipation in there. This weekend is supposed to be close to 40 degrees Celsius both days 🥵

    • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In 2025 RAID does not work. It will not protect you from errors. it’s all a mirage. The only sane option these days is ZFS.

  • mat@linux.communityEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I want to move my whole server to NixOS. It’s gotten to the point where I have no idea where all the Ubuntu config files went, and handling half of it via Docker vs baremetal. I hope this will allow me to set up proper backups as well, and maybe get better at Nix! I started a few days ago using the VM feature, but it’s tricky to work on for now, perhaps I haven’t found the right workflow.

    • Xamino@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I went this route from the start and love it. In case you need some resources:

      Hope this helps a bit. I found the effort to be very worth it, but took me almost half a year to get comfortable with it.

      • mat@linux.communityEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Thank you! It definitely does, I will be using that Restic article for sure! I actually use NixOS on my main laptop, which I found via Vimjoyer’s videos. It’s great, though I wish documentation for more advanced usage was more readily available. I started making the server, currently my biggest roadblock is testing the infrastructure without going live (I made the flake generate a VM for now but it takes a long time to build it every edit and I can’t even get ssh working) and figuring out how I’ll eventually install it with minimal downtime.

        • Byter@lemmy.oneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          On the topic of build times, it took me too long to learn that nixos-rebuild supports remote build workers and targets.

          For example, if I am editing on my laptop, want to build on my desktop, and apply the build to my file server, then I’d run…

          me@laptop$ nixos-rebuild test \
--flake ~/wherever-it-lives \
--build-host desktop \
--target-host file-server \
--use-remote-sudo

          The host names should match the name of the nixosConfiguration output from your flake. If they don’t I think you can specify like, --target-host .#some-machine

          Remote sudo avoids having to SSH as root.

          Bonus tip: Having Tailscale on every machine makes this work reliably from anywhere, network speed as the limit.

    • Sean@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Is there a reason(s) you’re doing NixOS over something like ProxMox? A friend of mine has been moving his lab over to ProxMox containers so i was thinking to do the same thing, but curious about NixOS since I’ve seen a few people mention it. Thanks!

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nix is great if your fine with the packages and configuration they provide. If you want other stuff or features not provided it is a giant pain in the ass and not worth it. And you’ll get oh just write a flake or just write a package file for it.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The entirety of Nix configuration is in somewhere between 1 and 3 files depending on how you like your poison.

        It’s immutable, so stuff can’t just change on you.

        Every change you make is stored into a new configuration and you can roll back to any configuration you’ve ever done with a reboot, so it’s kind of hard to brick it.

        Apps can’t just go in and modify your users or your host table or any of the other configs so it’s got an extra layer of security. But then, the package system has more packages than God and is maintained by a million randos with very little oversight.

        It has some substantially neat tricks. I moved from one box to another by just doing a fresh install, moving its three configuration files and letting syncthing rebuild my home directory from my other box.

        I think, if I were going to use Nix as a home server, I just install all of the services directly on the OS. Updates and configurations for everything would be maintained by Nix itself.

        • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          2 months ago

          No reason you can’t use NixOS in a VM on Proxmox.

          My container host OS is another immutable, uCore, which I run in a VM on Proxmox.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Tried it didn’t like it. To much work to get somethings working. Went back to docker.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I want to build a whole new server, starting with a wooden case that makes it perfectly silent (but allows for good air flow).

    Btw: does anybody know what bad things actually happen if there is no metal cage that blocks all the radio?

    • tychosmoose@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Btw: does anybody know what bad things actually happen if there is no metal cage that blocks all the radio?

      Noise happens. Could be no problem, or it could hurt your wifi or mobile data connections, or maybe raise a neighbor’s ham radio noise floor. I saw this recently when setting up a pi to run BirdNet-Pi. The USB3 connection to an SSD caused enough noise in the 2.4GHz band that the onboard wifi radio could only connect on the 5GHz band.

  • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.ioEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I am doing exactly the same as what the OP is doing. In addition to that, I will unify my beelink mini PC proxmox server and our old Intel atom NAS into one rack server with AMD EPYC, proxmox and truenas in a VM.

    I sure hope our landlord and the Internet operator can agree on the operator finally bringing fiber cables to all apartments. Then I would have fast enough uplink to my homelab.

      • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.ioEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yeah… So I’m in Berlin, and in Germany the internet operators finally are building fiber everywhere. The provider who lays the fiber to our street is Deutsche Telekom, and they promise to pay everything: laying the fiber, bringing it to our house and bringing the fiber to every apartment for a two year monopoly on fiber internet after which it’s up for competition using their cables. What needs to happen next is our landlord (a Swiss company) and house management company to agree on these guys to come in, put little fiber dividers to every floor and drill a hole to the walls so we get the fiber cable to our apartment.

        Of course this being Germany, they are very slow on agreeing on that, we might need to go to court and for sure we need to talk to our neighbors who own their apartments to push them a bit. I’d expect us to get the connection maybe before end of 2025. But eventually it will happen…

      • Disaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        And here I am stuck in an apartment in NYC with one option… spectrum cable. That’s it. I mean you COULD get Verizon DSL (lol) or some horrendously overpriced LTE thing, but realistically you’re at the mercy of whatever bloodsucking landlord thinks you deserve.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Rebuilding my main router to work with 10gbe fiber that recently became available here. Although it is a tad expensive, so I am not actually sure yet if I will upgrade my contract.

  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hardware perspective i need a nas. I got myself some piece of acer oem thats not too shit just need a case and some drives (i dont wanna just make stack of drives on top of the stack of old oems i call a homelab).

    Am getting starlink installed cos shitty rural aussie internet is shit. So gonna have to do some fucking around to make that work.

    Would like some local media reccommendation algorithm (can probs just write some code to dump jellyfin into openwebui and task an llm).

    Gotta set up an image gen ai and hook that up to openwebui.

    Gotta set up an email server to make authelia notifications not just dumped to a file.

    Ohh and i got literaly no backups of anything (well except my docker composes that are on git).

    Other than that we will see what i want.