Homelab admins - What do you run?

[Sephiroth]

As I've recently updated and revamped my homelab, I'm curious as to what others run at home, if at all. What hardware and OS structure, switching, VMs and containers, services, etc.

 

Also, those that do run services at home, like file servers or media servers, do you allow access to others, like family or friends; is it for the household or is it just you?

 

I've been curious for a while what others do as I flip between feeling that my setup is excessive, and that I need more stuff!

 

To kick it off, I have a Dell Poweredge R730 running Proxmox and a backup server running PBS, all networking comes back to a 24 port 1Gb switch with 2 10Gb uplinks, one of which the host is on. I have 2 Server 2025 DCs and a windows fileserver running my AD domain and a PFSense firewall VM. Then theres the LXC containers running services:

 

• Media stack
• Ad blocking
• Minecraft server
• Steam game server
• CCTV server
• Nextcloud
• Meal and recepie planner
• Paperless-ng filesystem
• Photo manager
• Print server
• Home Assistant
• PDF editor
• PXE server

 

All of that with a view to add more in the future... Oh; and multiple VLANs for organisation and security, all coming back to my firewall for appropriate access.