Personally will be trying to transform my server which is currently in a fractal R5 case, into a small-ish Homelab rack, combined with all my network equipment. Will require complete relocation of all network equipment in the house as well as cables so it will be a bit of a project. Also on the lookout for a good quality rack so let me know if you have any recs. Still unsure if u want to do full width rack or mini. Part of me really want the UDM Pro from Unifi…

What are your goals and thing you want to accomplish during 2025?

  • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Get a domain and set about moving over to HTTPS with Let’s encrypt and Nginx.

    Learn to write an Nginx config. NPM just works so good though.

    Fix my permission issues. I have my media zpool on 777 so all the LXCs work and I have to run Libation in a VM as root. I’ve been banging my head against this on and off for a while.

    Figure out why paperless isn’t saving to the correct place. Also, figure out where Paperless is saving to.

    Containerise Libation.

    I give friends and family access to my server via a relay, just a raspberry pi 0 with Tailscale, pihole and nginx on it. I have reasons for going this route. Anyways, get a couple more of those into the wild. Also streamline the process somewhat.

    Learn to and create an ACL config for tailscale so I can have services access nothing, users access services, and admins access everything.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      A pain in the ass. Great but did not fit my needs. Dependent containers would fail a lot during upgrades. Kept trying to figure it out and then just said WTF am I doing this all works fine in docker.

      • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Oh, that doesn’t sound great. One reason I was looking into it was because Docker seemingly doesn’t allow optional mounts which has been causing some issues. My home assistant is using a network attached USB device through a raspberry pi somewhere else in the house. Sometimes it would disconnect and take down my entire home assistant instance.

    • Disaster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      They’re actually quite annoying, the documentation is there but makes a lot of assumptions about what you already know.

      I prefer podman systemd generate…just makes more sense to me.

  • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago
    1. Install Comms box in office.
    2. Get Unifi switch.
    3. Run Cat6A to all rooms of house.
    4. Consolidate NUC and N100’s fewer devices.
    5. Install 2x U6 Wall units. 6 Begin scoping Surveillance cameras. Torn between Synology and Unifi.
  • flubba86@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I need to move my mishmash of hard drives, fans, cables, and NUC into a proper NAS box, with a proper power supply and a mini itx motherboard.

  • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Loving all these goals and ideas!

    Lots to think about and put on the to do list!

    Great question and I’m loving the action.

    All I need to figure out is how to replicate one trunas pool to another trunas machine as a backup.

    replication tasks are all failing, rsync is taking absolutely forever, and I need my backup, I feel naked!

  • namelivia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Top 1 for me would be a strong backup mechanism, and by that I mean something that is tested. Currently I have restic in place but I don’t even know if in case of a disaster the backups are ok.

    And considering my lack of time, I would be happy with just that.

  • Juvyn00b@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I have a dual socket R620 with 256gb RAM that I never turn on (proxmox) and another box with a single xeon 1518d (esxi). Collapsing both down to a repurposed Sophos SG135 (atom c3558) with 32g ram, 512gb sata and a noctua fan (proxmox). I already use another sg135 running opnsense. I run mostly lightweight loads anymore (HomeAssistant, netbox, unifi controller) so I really don’t need things turned on that have overkill horsepower. I have a separate file server that I need to upgrade sometime (old 4 core bulldozer amd) but it keeps chugging away.

    • Tinkerer@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      This, my ssd randomly disappeared on my proxmox server January 1st so I had to start from scratch. Didn’t have any docker compose backups or lxc backups… I suppose this time I can do everything right now lol

  • kalleboo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    It would be to replace my 4-bay Synology DS918 NAS with something with more drive bays and 10 Gbit connectivity

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    I want to build a whole new server, starting with a wooden case that makes it perfectly silent (but allows for good air flow).

    Btw: does anybody know what bad things actually happen if there is no metal cage that blocks all the radio?

    • tychosmoose@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Btw: does anybody know what bad things actually happen if there is no metal cage that blocks all the radio?

      Noise happens. Could be no problem, or it could hurt your wifi or mobile data connections, or maybe raise a neighbor’s ham radio noise floor. I saw this recently when setting up a pi to run BirdNet-Pi. The USB3 connection to an SSD caused enough noise in the 2.4GHz band that the onboard wifi radio could only connect on the 5GHz band.

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Hopefully I can finally get the IPv6 stack fully working.

    OPNsense works, Proxmox works, LXC works, Docker works but Docker Swarm does not.

    Either I move away from Docker Swarm or a miracle happens and they finally fix their IPv6 support in 2025.

    • Sips'@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      As a networking noob: what are the benefits to having/using an IPv6 stack? I realize that eventually we all have to move to IPv6, but any point in being early on it?

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        IPv6 is pretty much identical to IPv4 in terms of functionality.

        The biggest difference is that there is no more need for NAT with IPv6 because of the sheer amount of IPv6 addresses available. Every device in an IPv6 network gets their own public IP.

        For example: I get 1 public IPv4 address from my ISP but 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. That’s a number I can’t even pronounce and it’s just for me.

        There are a few advantages that this brings:

        • Any client in the network can get a fresh IP every day to reduce tracking
        • It is pretty much impossible to run a full network scan on this amount of IP addresses
        • Every device can expose their own service on their own IP (For example: You can run multiple web servers on the same port without a reverse proxy or multiple people can host their own game server on the same port)

        There are some more smaller changes that improve performance compared to IPv4, but it’s minimal.

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          The no NAT thing really messed with my brain and was probably the hardest thing to overcome for me.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        I love havingipv6. Hard to learn and had roadblocks but now that it’s set up works fine.

        Does it matter no but just nice to know I have it figured out.

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    I think what I need to do correctly on my homelab this year, is setup off-site backups. I currently only backup to seperate drives and machines inside my own home. I need to setup something at my parents place to take weekly and monthly backups.

    Other than that, my media server needs a bigger storage drive.