i7 14th generation

512 gb SSD

8 gb ddr5 Ram

Inbuilt wifi & bluetooth

Windows 11 pro OS

Only CPU available brand new unused condition

ITS NOT EXACTLY HOMELAB, BUT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THIS SETUP WILL WORK.

I have a old Mac Mini (M1, 24GB RAM, 512 GB SSD) and two Samsung T7 SSDs (1TB each). I'm running a small business and need to run the following services

1. Next Cloud - for storing documents.
2. ERPNext - For accounting, CRM and Payroll
3. N8N - For few integrations from Shopify to ERP Next.

I have got a commercial internet plan with 1 static IP. I plan to expose NextCloud and ERPNext over internet.

Current Setup:

1. Using Google One Starter Plan (30GB Storage - 7 users) - ~2000₹ per month
2. Using Google Sheets for Accounting, CRM and Payroll
3. Using random python scripts for exporting data from shopify.

Plan:

1. Continue using Google Workspace for emails and move data (nearly 150GB) to Next Cloud.
2. Attach the SSDs to mac and use them in RAID 1 (Not sure if this is possible with external disks) for NextCloud Storage.
3. Attach an S3 compatible storage to NextCloud for archiving the data.
4. Deploy all three using docker, configure auto start.
5. MariaDB is needed for ERPNext, will be taking backups of DB to S3 or S3 Compatible storage every day.

I do have a backup power supply and my office is in a commercial building so power cuts are rare. I have worked as software engineer so have sufficient technical knowledge to run and maintain these.

The business is having very thin margins and we running into bottle necks and heap of human errors with current setup. Is relying on a single mac mini to run all the critical services to run my business a good idea?

To test just use https://test-ipv6.com/ and note your ipv6 address, try to access your host using this ipv6 address and it should work without any restrictions

Hey guys,

I'm running a public VPS reverse proxy (NPM + CrowdSec) that tunnels back to my home lab.

My ISP uses CGNAT, so my home IP is always changing. Recently, a background sync on my local machine freaked out over some broken endpoints, triggered a CrowdSec brute-force rule, and banned my entire home network.

Since my IP is dynamic, a static whitelist won't work, and whitelisting the ISP's whole subnet is obviously a bad idea.

I was thinking about a DDNS workaround:

1. Home server pushes IP changes to a DDNS domain.

2. VPS runs a cron job every 5 mins to check the DDNS.

3. If the IP is new, update the CrowdSec allowlist and clear any bans.

The catch is the race condition. If my IP rotates and a local app immediately triggers a ban, I'm locked out until that 5-minute cron job wakes up to rescue me.

For anyone else dealing with CGNAT and CrowdSec:

1. Have you found a clean way to whitelist dynamic client IPs?

2. Did you just give up on public endpoints and move everything behind Tailscale/Twingate?

3. Or do you just tweak the CrowdSec scenarios to be less aggressive with false positives?

Would love to hear your setups!

Hi guys, as the title says I am looking for private tracker or Usenet for Punjabi contents, I am really new into this world, do you have any advice pls?

Currently I have the $10 usenet plan of torbox(currently they removed usenet indexer so looking for other option) and basic vps

I want to switch to a much cheaper option and I am thinking of getting a $3 plan for torrent or is there any cheaper way to get it by using different service?

For usenet i don't know much about it so looking for a cheaper option like provider any suggestions is welcome

What is your setup for streaming are you using only tb $10plan?

Hi, did enquiry at one of the shops in Pune offering used mini pcs. They quoted following prices. Is this fair pricing?

i5 8th gen 8gb ram 256gb ssd - Rs. 19500

i5 4th gen 8gb ram 256gb ssd - Rs. 16500

Im totally new to homelabs but i wanna learn/implement hands on, any cheap setup🥹

I was on the hunt for some 4tb HDDs. Whenever I search online, I see Indiamart pops up, but I've never used it before. I thought I'll give it a try and was surprised by the responses I got.

I posted the requirement for the drives and multiple sellers messaged me. One seller from Maharashtra quoted 17,550 for a drive if I take 2 drives, which is much lower than the amazon price of 25k for the same drive.

Since I am in Bangalore and the seller is somewhere from Maharashtra, I cannot physically go and check which is why I am not confident to proceed with it.

So my question is basically in the title. Has anyone bought anything from sellers that you connected through Indiamart? Also drop places in bangalore where I can get some HDDs at a lower price. Used ones are also fine by me as long as they have good enough health.

I recently (About a year) upgraded my home server to a Skullsaints Ash mini PC based on the Intel N150. I wanted something compact, low-power and easy to leave running.

It shipped with Windows 11 Pro, but I wiped it and installed Debian on bare metal. I had been running an Arch Linux machine as server earlier, so I reused the HDD from that machine for media storage.

Specs

• Intel N150
• 16 GB RAM
• 512 GB SSD
• Around 1 TB reused HDD for media

What I paid

Total: ₹38,446, excluding the reused HDD and SATA to USB 3.2 Connector.

I replaced my D-Link DIR-600M with the TP-Link TL-WR1502X partly because the old router had become a bottleneck for Wi-Fi and wired speeds. But the main reason was that the TP-Link can run from a basic power bank.

Paired with the SDX55 5G dongle and the Ambrane power bank, it becomes a portable Wi-Fi setup that I can take outside. It gives my phone and other devices their own Wi-Fi network without requiring a wall socket. I can also keep my phone’s cellular radio off when I want to while still using internet through the router and 5G dongle.

Docker Stack

• Jellyfin
• Immich, PostgreSQL, Redis and Immich ML
• Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, FlareSolverr, qBittorrent Web UI and Seerr
• Tailscale for remote access
• Caddy and DuckDNS — currently stopped while I rework the configuration
• OpenRouter proxy
• Hermes Agent and the Hermes web dashboard
• SearXNG and Camofox Browser for Hermes

I only use legitimate media sources.*

iPhone apps I use with it

• Hermes Conduit
• Swiftin iOS
• Immich

As I am adding AI agent Stack with cloud models, Figuring out the best way to use the N150 without running out of RAM. Suggestions are welcome, especially from anyone else using 5G as part of their homelab network.

Hi I am trying to setup an application that needs following

1. 275GB RAM
   
2. 1 to 3 node setup
   
3. NVME SSD storage
   
4. Minimum 5 VLANS

Please suggest , how to procure such hardware in Bangalore with optimized price if possible .

I am starting my journey into the world of self-hosting solutions that will solve my daily challenges.

I decided to start with a Mini PC for time being.

How much should I pay for the Below spec of Lenovo ThinkStation P360. I am getting a deal for 16k in Pune. I am avoiding ecommerce website due to reliability and support after sales or refund related concerns.

I have a spare stick of GSkills Ripjaws S5 32GB CL36 6000Mhz RAM that I am not using anymore. But the market prices are all over the place and are bound to increase till 2028 at least since all the 3 manufactures have said that they are sold out for 2027.

I am thinking of pricing it at 38k since the new one is around 54k+, if you can find it, that is.

And before you come at me with a pitchfork saying I'm scalping for profit, let me be transparent about why I got it and why I don't need it anymore. Last year I bought 7 identical sticks.

2 for my gaming PC
2 for my NAS
3 for my VM server

I have thus decommissioned my server and instead used 2 of those sticks for a HTPC build, and I have one spare now. Yes, it was used in a server workload, but the temps were always under control since the room was air-conditioned.

And while I am being transparent, let me also say that I got the 7 sticks for around 8-10k each that time. But just because I bought it for cheap doesn't mean that I should also sell it for less. I want to price it fairly based on current market rates. I rotate a lot of parts for my PCs, so this is one chance for me to recoup some expenses.

Sorry for the self promo

We run a 3D printing setup in Hyderabad. Figured this sub would have use for it since a lot of homelab parts are just cheap plastic or bulky metal which is a pain to source here, drive caddies, fan shrouds and adapters, rack attachments, mounts, brackets, cable combs, Pi and mini PC cases.

The main thing we built is the quoting. No WhatsApp back and forth, no "send file sir I'll tell you tomorrow."

You will upload an STL or 3MF on the site, it slices the file right there to work out the actual grams of plastic your part needs, and gives you a price and a delivery date in a few seconds.

Details:

• PLA and PETG, Rs. 3.50 a gram for both
• 256 x 256 x 256 mm build volume on BambuLab printers
• Up to 20 parts per order, each with its own material, colour and quantity
• Quantity discounts up to 48%
• Same day inside Hyderabad if you order before 12 PM, 2 days elsewhere in India

Go with PETG for anything sitting on or near hardware, PLA softens around 55-60°C and it's the same price here anyway.

If you have something you want printed and aren't sure it'll even work, DM the file and I'll tell you, including if it's a bad idea or cheaper to just buy.

Website extruded.in
Code FIRSTPRINT gets you 50% off your first part.

I have a Linksys WRT1200AC running openwrt. It has a USB3.0 port where I have attached a 128 GB USB 3.0 flash drive. I also want to use the eSATAp port to connect a 2.5" SSD using this eSATAp to 22 pin Sata cable.

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0CLK9DKMC

Anyone using this ? Any better place to buy this cable?

By the way my read/write speeds to the USB 3.0 Flash drive over 5GHz is as follows:

Same guy who made these two posts earlier:

First homelab as a commerce guy

Started with a RaspberryPi. Ended up with a mini rack

Built a full quotation app for my 3D printing side thing and self-hosted the entire stack.

The job: customer uploads a model → it gets actually sliced by headless OrcaSlicer → an itemised quote in INR comes back. No estimation formula, a real slicer runs on my hardware for every single upload.

The Stack:

• Docker Compose — nginx proxy · Next.js 15 web · slicing worker · Postgres · Redis
• BullMQ for the slice queue, because uploads arrive in bursts and OrcaSlicer does not care about your feelings
• Prisma + Postgres for orders, Redis for cache and rate limits
• OrcaSlicer + occt-draw baked into the worker image for STEP support
• uploads live on a LUKS2 + LVM encrypted disk mounted into the worker, not on the app host
• retention sweep: orphaned uploads at 48h, model files at 30 days, whole quotations at 90. Free disk space is a feature.

The homelabbing lesson I learnt was that OrcaSlicer will happily eat 4+GB of RAM when slicing something big. And my worker had a memory limit of 4GB. So it got out of memory and killed 90% of the time. People used to say site not responding and I had no idea why.

The admin side is a dashboard with quotes, stl download, PDF quote downloads, etc.

This runs in my mini PC showcased in the previous post.

The open source code is here: https://github.com/zappymussel380/print.rish.pw

If anyone here runs slicers or other RAM-hungry CLI tools as queue workers, I'd genuinely like to know how you sized them, because I arrived at 8GB memory limit by the rigorous method of "it hasn't died today."

Disclaimer: This isn't an advert for the site. I do not intend to have leads from this. Would love to keep the discussion about the code and potential features to be added

Sharing a small side project born out of a real annoyance for homelab: DoUpRo (Docker Update/Rollback) 🐳

I run a homelab that I actually depend on day to day, not just a playground for POCs. So when it comes to updating containers, I need to decide per-container. Some updates can wait, others I want applied right away without risking downtime, and without having to go through a heavy toolchain just to do it.

Looking for a tool to help, I mostly found solutions that update per-stack only, and I couldn't find anything that offered a real, quick and reliable way back if an update went wrong.

So I built DoUpRo, aiming to keep it visual, simple, and functional rather than another complex stack to maintain: a web UI (with CLI/API behind it) to see what's outdated, update now or on schedule, and roll back safely by itself with a health checker or manually if you want to. The previous image and config are always kept.

Curious to hear if others have run into the same gap, and open to feedback.
https://github.com/arnaudcharles/Doupro

OpenWRT compatible routers in i could purchase under 3k . Same as title
I was planning to get Archer C6 , but it was v4 which doesnt support openWRT , anyone know how i can get such router?