Baby steps
Rack mounted
RIP power bill
Specs
From top to bottom
- Edgerouter 4
- Edgeswitch 24 (non-PoE)
- Netgear PoE, Starlink PoE Injector
- Synology DS220j, Synology DS720+
- Ebay Special
- Dell r430, 48gb RAM, 2x E5-2630v3
- Dell r510, 32gb RAM, 2x X5670
- CyberPower 2100VA/1650W
Software
- proxmox
- k3s
- postgres / timescale
- grafana / prometheus / snmp exporters
- docker registry
- traefik
- kafka
- consul
- gitea
- unifi / uisp
- openvpn
and a whole bunch of homebrew projects!
Storage
Right now, the budget Synology (DS220j) handles all the PoE IP cameras scattered around the property.
The higher-end Synology (DS720+) has 2x m.2 128gb, a couple hard drives, and handles iSCSI / NFS for all the containers.
All the servers have budget SSDs for the proxmox OS, and a few containers use those when they don’t need persistent volumes.
Cost
Hey, it’s a hobby, not a money-making venture!