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Finally happish with my all-in-one homelab (20+ services and way too much tinkering) (lemmy.organic-server.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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After years of breaking things, I think I'm finally at a point where I'm genuinely proud of my setup -so naturally, I have to share it with you all.

This is my single-server do-everything box. The whole point was to kick as many big-tech cloud services out of my life as possible. Photos, passwords, code, chat, even ML -all running in my closet/corner.

The guts:

Ryzen 7 3800X (8 cores, 16 threads)
48GB of RAM (Channel A: 16GB+8GB, Channel B: 16GB+8GB | still dual channel with stock timings and clocks.)
RTX 3050 8GB (handles GPU-accelerated processing with GPU passthrough to said LXC's)
A couple of storage pools (Fast-Thin-LVM (Nvme) for stuff that needs speed, TB-Thin (Sata) for the bulk)
Proxmox 9.2.5, kernel 7.0.14

Nothing crazy by today's standards, but honestly? It handles everything I throw at it without breaking a sweat.

The services:

Everything runs in LXC containers. If a service needs Docker, I run Docker inside the LXC - so each service gets its own dedicated container with its own Docker install. A couple of other things (like OpenWrt and DSM) live in VMs instead.

I've got the usual suspects - Immich for photos (goodbye Google Photos), Vaultwarden for passwords, and Matrix Synapse for chat. Networking side is Nginx Proxy Manager, WireGuard, Pi-hole, and OpenWrt routing traffic as well as DDNS-Updater to keep my domain up to date. Also running Gitea for my little coding projects, Kiwix for offline Wikipedia (because why not), Trilium for my scattered notes, homarr as the dashboard and of course lemmy, your reading this on it haha.

On the heavier side, I've got Ollama + Open WebUI running locally with GPU acceleration - the 3050 gets the job done.

Snapotter is in there too - it's an open-source, self-hosted file toolkit with 200+ tools for images, video, audio, PDF, and document processing. I use it so I don't have to rely on sketchy file conversion sites anymore. Convert, compress, OCR, strip metadata - all happens on my own hardware, files never leave my network. The GPU helps with some of the heavier image tasks too.

And yes - I'm running DSM (Arc Loader) in a VM with PCIe passthrough for the NAS. It's a bit overkill, but I wanted proper storage virtualization with direct hardware access.

I also will not lie- the GPU sits idle most of the time, but it's nice to have the acceleration.

Why LXC + Docker instead of just Docker?

I just like having each service in its own isolated container with its own Docker daemon. It makes backups and snapshots stupidly easy in Proxmox - when I inevitably screw something up at 1 AM (and I will), rolling back takes two clicks. Plus, it keeps dependency hell contained.

Dive into the Details

If you're curious about the configs, the philosophy, or just want to see the messy reality behind the setup, head over to organic-server.org. You'll find some more of my ramblings there.

Or, if you have a specific question, I'm always happy to chat here.

edit: I also forgot to mention I have degoog running. oops.

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[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ah yes, an appimage packaged into a Flatpak packaged around Docker packaged into a proot+bubblewrap script which is packaged back into a Docker container (but a newer version) running under a Snap packaging of LXC under Flatpak Snap.

The app is running Java of course.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 hour ago

Um, OK... what do you DO with this? It just seems like a hermetic exercise in digital hoarding.

[–] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 7 points 6 hours ago

Your homelab looks gay

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Getting some cameras and running frigate+ is a good way to utilise the GPU. My 2060 6gb runs 10-30% usage with 3 cameras. Can do cool things like send me a notification using ntfy if a person is seen between 2300-0500 something like that.

I did have ollama set up for local models but I've found anything that will run on 6gb isn't worth using anyway.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 16 hours ago

What's your backup strategy?

[–] dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Nice setup! Might check out some services I didn't know about yet.

But I might add one thing, because I am/was in the same boat: Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama

[–] vogi@piefed.social 15 points 18 hours ago

Great article, they always gave of that energy tbh. But I did not bother and also didn't use it enough that it would matter. Good to have a write up about it. Thanks for sharing.

[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 9 points 21 hours ago

Woah, thanks for the article!

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Commenting because I’m suuuuper interested but can’t read it now, but I never look at saved comments. Thank you!

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'll summarize.

Shitty VC backed company. Just a wrapper for llamacpp. Just use llamacpp. If you want a front end, I recommend Anything LLM

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Nice that's similar to my setup! As for a website hub yours looks neat, mine is plain as hell unless you're a family member, thanks to Authelia -- but making public info is on my todo list -- I tried custom-building a website many years back and adapted that. (If anyone discovers security flaws please lmk, but I'm preeetty sure I did good)

Gonna share mine :3

i3 6100 (2 cores, 4 threads), iGPU passthrough to a LibreELEC VM so I could finally replace the Google CCwGTV 4K*)
24GB of RAM (16GB+8GB, mobo is ITX so that's it)
RTX 3060 12GB (handles GPU-accelerated processing with GPU passthrough to LXC's)
256GB Samsung 850 Evo SATA SSD for everything but media
SATA HDDs for media:

Shucked Barracuda Pro 10TB
Ironwolf Pro 20TB
Ironwolf Pro 24TB

Proxmox 9.2.3, kernel 7.0.6-2 (not quite sure why it's not using .14)

I conspire that it was being updated to become weaker. Reasons:

Menu got laggier;
WiFi got real glitchy and wouldn't connect on wake and I had to either:

d/c and r/c,
power cycle,
or forget the WiFi and reenter details in order to make it work

And as the months went on reconnecting stopped working, power cycling stopped working and it stopped giving me a keyboard, instead prompting to "enter on your remote device" so my last remaining technique was to install the Google Home app, set everything up and use my phone keyboard to enter the WiFi creds.

I conspired that as it was fine until recently and it went downhill so rapidly, that it must have been forced obsolescence and they'll probably release a replacement device. Surprise -- one month after I replaced it with Kodi, Google released the "Google TV Streamer 4K".

Once I can upgrade my 2017 flagship to a 2027 midrange I'll be transferring the i7-7700K and the other half of the 2x16 RAM, and I'm in dire need of more storage so a 30TB Ironwolf is in my sights (but fuck, it's 2x its pre AI-pocalypse price (aka Sep 2025).

[–] gnufuu@lemmy.ca 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Nice specs, nice setup. You might want to add another rainbow sticker or two, just in case :p

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, we're putting stickers in the case now?

[–] organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

where are they in the case???? hahaha (edit: i am still getting used to lemmy comments, so i thought you said I had stickers in my case- I didn't see you replied to someone haha)

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

I believe by replying to my comment, per Lemmy rules, totally not mine. You've contractually agreed to putting at least 5, but no more than 100 rainbow stickers on the inside of your case.

Yes, you may call them "RGB".

Yes, they make your NAS go faster.

Yes, they improve airflow, but only when oriented correctly.

No, they don't make you less straight. They're "closeted" officially.

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
Plex	Brand of media server package
SATA	Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 23 acronyms.

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

And yes - I’m running DSM (Arc Loader) in a VM with PCIe passthrough for the NAS. It’s a bit overkill, but I wanted proper storage virtualization with direct hardware access.

Whats this like, I'm running TrueNAS (the BSD version) with PCIe pass-through for my HBA and a couple of SATA ports - all in a VM on the latest proxmox

[–] ranslite@pie.dasneuland.de 12 points 23 hours ago

I see 'nett hier' sticker, i vote up.

[–] ndupont@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

I run docker within LXC too, but I have just a pair of docker instances with a collection of compose stacks on each. I really need stickers.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Same. When I first started down that path I kept finding posts about how it was impossible to set up and maintain but it's been pretty painless for me. I basically had no clue what I was doing and I figured it out just fine.

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 20 hours ago

Love the front sticker

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 7 points 23 hours ago

Dope little setup. Love the BIOS sticker.

[–] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Damn that case takes me back

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I really like those big cases. Lots of room for expansion and cooling I've got an old CoolerMaster Cosmos II.

spoiler

I took the bottom rails and retrofitted casters on it. It's huge and hard to move around. Stands about 30" tall.

[–] MacManDeluxe@infosec.pub 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I love the Cosmos cases! I’m still using the Cosmos SE for my gaming pc. Computers should have handles!

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This one? That's a pretty nice look to it.

[–] MacManDeluxe@infosec.pub 1 points 12 hours ago

That’s the one! Thanks.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

You have each "docker" container in there own lxc running docker? That's a silly way to do it if I'm understanding correctly. You're adding overhead to containers for little to no benefit. You could put them all in the same lxc or Proxmox supports OCI containers natively now.

[–] organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I think the misunderstanding is that I'm running every single service as Docker inside its own LXC. That's not actually what I'm doing.

I split things by service boundary. For example, Pi-hole + Unbound has its own LXC, Lemmy has its own LXC, Immich has its own LXC, etc. Most of those run natively in LXC without Docker at all.

Docker is only there where the application actually expects/benefits from it. I'm not adding a Docker layer everywhere just for the sake of it.

The reason I prefer this over one giant LXC with everything docker- inside. is the management side.

Yes, there is some overhead. But LXC containers are much lighter than VMs. They share the host kernel and use Linux namespaces/cgroups for isolation, so you're not paying the cost of a full virtualized OS. The extra memory/CPU overhead is minimal compared to the management benefits I get from separating services.

The Docker overhead only exists on the services that actually need Docker. A lot of my services run directly in their own LXC without Docker at all.

Could I put everything into one LXC and run Docker Compose? Sure. It would probably work fine. But for my homelab, ease of maintenance and recovery is just as important as raw resource efficiency.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

How does that make it easier for maintenance?

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Proxmox supports OCI containers natively now

As of 9.1, and kind of. To be clear what its doing is not a drop-in replacement for docker, but using that image as a basis for an lxc - so you're not just pulling a new image to update, more like re-deploying, so keep your stored data elsewhere, outside of the lxc. So what was handled by pulling an image or a change to a compose is done manually in proxmox now, but it does make things like backups/snapshots much more consistent and proxmox-native.

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, but if you were doing lxc + docker per container you might as well use this oci as lxc method. I think both methods are silly, but that's just my opinion.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Nextstep is Homepage with all your services on it.

[–] TediousTasks@piefed.social 6 points 19 hours ago

I spent an entire weekend doing this and then just sat there staring at it like the Wolverine looking at a picture meme.

[–] organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, i kinda do- for public services on my website. but I don't why I would do a dedicated one- when almost all need services authentication.

but I do use homarr for as an internal "homepage"/dashboard. Great idea though.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Nice.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Ahhh....yes. The PronMaster 6000

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Why is this labeled ai?

[–] organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Ollama/Openwebui, Immich, Snapotter and cause degoog can use ollama.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Hey @organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org did you use a LLM like Ollama to write your post?

No shade if you did, I just want to make sure we're categorizing things correctly at our end.

[–] organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, I haven't. I guess I’m just very verbose- I just want to make sure I’m clearly understood.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's less any verbosity, and more that the sentence and post structures sound very ai. Not that you'd be the only person that just writes like that, but especially the concluding paragraph sounds exactly like something an LLM would output.

[–] organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I mean, I somewhat understand where you're coming from. But I’ve always written in this kind of style, and I think the reason the post ended up sounding this way is simply because it’s meant to share information I personally find interesting or useful. There isn't really much of a way to explain a setup like this without having sections, lists, and explanations.

Honestly it's a bit difficult to write something like this and have it not sound "AI-generated".

Doesn't help, a lot of people seem to associate the dashes ("-") with AI writing nowadays, but I’ve been using them for years, so unfortunately that probably doesn’t help my case- rip haha.

Regarding the:

"Dive into the Details. If you're curious about the configs, the philosophy, or just want to see the messy reality behind the setup, head over to organic-server.org. You'll find some more of my ramblings there. Or, if you have a specific question, I’m always happy to chat here."

That part was mainly there because I’ve seen a lot of homelab posts where someone shares a cool setup, but then never responds to questions or expands on anything. I wanted to make it clear that I’m happy to discuss the details if anyone is interested.

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Ollama probably

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, what is this SnapOtter thing you mention? Apparently it's based on some AI tool, but what has me really intrigued is its Whisper capabilities? There was another project I tried to use a few years ago called Willow, in order to have a VTT connection to home assistant. https://community.home-assistant.io/t/espressif-box-devices-willow-multilingual-voice-stt-tts-home-assistant-add-on-how-to-configure/664916

The creator tragically died in a car accident soon after though and the project went kaput.

This looks like maybe it could do the same thing???

[–] organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

this is Snapottter https://snapotter.com/

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 37 minutes ago

Yeah I was already viewing the website, but I’m interested if it can replace Willow

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