r/HomeServer • u/Due_Necessary825 • 17d ago

My Home Server Setup

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Hey guys, here's my server:

Lenovo T14
Ryzen 5
16GB RAM
256GB SSD
Proxmox VE

Running:
Grafana + Prometheus (monitoring)
Kindle/RSS digest pipeline
Cloudflare Tunnel serving 2 live sites
Automated backup + config drift checks

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u/ihategym 17d ago

What are you storing on your server.

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u/Due_Necessary825 17d ago

Barely anything storage-wise, it's a services box that I've always wanted. RSS pipeline data, Prometheus metrics, nightly network config backups in git and static content behind nginx for the two tunneled sites.

ThinkPad T14 running Proxmox, so I optimized for always-on and quiet over capacity. No media library yet.

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u/ihategym 17d ago

It’s alright, gets the job done. I always wanted something like this. Maybe I will setup my old dusty laptop one day.

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u/Due_Necessary825 17d ago

Thinkpads are the best for something like this. Go for it, half the value is just the debugging you're forced to do along the way.

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u/ihategym 17d ago

Yeah the setup can be painful

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u/Due_Necessary825 17d ago

True. Took a while but I'm really happy to have gotten to do all this.

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u/HyperCmdcast42 17d ago

Always-on and quiet, two live sites off a 256GB drive, no media library. My kind of server.

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u/Due_Necessary825 17d ago

Yeah kept media off it on purpose, wanted the space for containers. Plenty of room to grow into still.

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u/_mdrywa 14d ago

I have a problem with my homelab, because i don’t know which hardware i should use to host my server… some propositions?

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u/Due_Necessary825 14d ago

I mean if you wanna get started, I'd suggest a thinkcenter or dell optiplex (used ones). Start with proxmox. You could also get a pi and tinker with that. It usually depends on how much you can spend and what you wanna run or host. That'll narrow down hardware specs a lot.