Home Lab

My Home Server is built using a combination of my old pc components and recycled components from PC's that were going to be thrown out. It features a 128gb SSD boot drive and a 2tb SSD for storage. In the future I plan to setup a RAID configuration for more reilable storage.
old desktop pc that has been turned into a server
It all started with my old laptop under my bed, which I configured ubuntu sever on and setup AMP to host a terraria server with all of my friends. Once I had learnt the basics I knew I could start working on building a stronger computer that would allow me to to setup more interesting and useful systems.
old asus laptop under bed
Even this website is completely hosted from the home server with a secure connnection.
My current home lab features:
  • SAMBA Network Storage
  • AMP Game Servers
  • Nginx and Certbot
Future Additions:
  • Wireguard VPN
  • RAID Config
  • PostgreSQL Database
I learnt a method of data restoration when our garage flooded and we had to cut power to the house resulting in loss of data on the 2tb server SSD. Using testdisk I managed to recover the partition and save all the data.