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Homelab Overview

Public overview of my compute & storage stack powering apps, game servers, and services.

Compute Node — PowerEdge R630

CPUs
Dual 14-core (28 threads each) — 56 threads total
RAM
32 GB DDR4 ECC
Drives
1 TB SSD, 1 TB HDD, 750 GB HDD, 120 GB SSD, 240 GB SSD
Hypervisor
Proxmox VE
VMs
Debian, Ubuntu, Windows 10
Workloads
Ingress handling, backend/frontend services, Minecraft computation
Networking
Dual gateway connections + tunnel to backup site

Storage Node — IBM Server

CPU
8-core
RAM
48 GB DDR3 ECC
Boot
Dual 60 GB SAS (RAID1)
Data
3 × 1.8 TB HDD (pool) + 1 TB HDD cache
OS
TrueNAS CORE (with IPMI)
Role
Primary storage, compression, and file management (~3.5 TB)

Network & Security

  • Reverse proxy with TLS (Nginx), HSTS, hardened headers
  • Rate-limited, session-hardened login for private dashboard
  • Segmentation (VLANs) and dual-gateway failover (tunnel to backup)

Sensitive IPs/hostnames and internal topology are intentionally omitted.

Services & Use-cases

  • Web apps & APIs (frontend + backend)
  • Game servers (Minecraft) and related tooling
  • File services via TrueNAS, snapshots & compression