Let’s start with the hardware. You can self host pretty much everything on pretty much anything. But I got my hands on a number of these HP ProDesks and I thought they’d look nice stacked up together. I think I was right. My old setup was a single desktop with cobbled up hardware inside. Nothing wrong with that, it worked. Each ProDesk has an i5-8500, 6-core CPU, 16GB of RAM (Since been upgraded to 32GB each), and a 500GB NVMe, and a 1TB mechanical hard drive.
On the software side of things, it is nothing special in terms of exclusivity, but it is special it its capabilities. I use what many other homelabbers use, ProxMox. We all know ProxMox, we’re comfortable with it, it’s our friend. I encourage you to check it out. Install it on anything and just start playing with it. My neat and capable setup today is a result of many years of me just playing around with ProxMox. I run my Proxmox in what is called a cluster, it utilizes all 3 computers hardware and keeps it all in one central web GUI.
Your next best friend after ProxMox is helper scripts.
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
Helper Scripts will get your new services up and running in a heartbeat.
RIP tteck.
Below are pictures of when I first got my new setup up and running.
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