Alecks

To start with the mid 2026 homelab tour, some very significant changes have happened that’ve completely elevated the setup onto another level. The installation of my new 1600VA pure sinewave ups, this has already kept my homelab online during late night 30-40 minute power outages. Moving to a server rack and rackmount hardware, this has made the setup look much more refined and helped a lot with organisation New full size server, au-prox-03 which is built using parts ganked out of a hp prodesk and ssd from a laptop put with a new motherboard, casing and psu. Moved au-prox-02 onto a new i5 10th gen nuc and am now using the i5 7th gen mini pc as a proxmox backup server. This post will consist of changes since the last post, anything not mentioned here has been kept the same. ...

The mid-2026 homelab tour is now here! Introduction Over these past few months of early 2026 my homelab has expanded to host many new game servers, proxy friends services and even run my own mini streaming service. So I’ll be taking you through everything behind the scenes that makes this possible, how I keep everything stable and my future expansion plans. Services Managed Game Hosting I’ve had my game hosting platform for a while but only just recently has it become pretty active and filled to capacity, I actually had to upgrade the ram on one of my physical machines to accomodate for this demand. ...

I’ve been watching a lot of homelabbing content recently and decided to setup some new services specifically for improving reliability, observability and adding new functionality. My knowledge is quite limited currently as I’m just getting started, I intend to slowly improve these setups overtime. Prometheus and Grafana / On-prem monitoring To prevent me from having no insignt into my homelab during an internet outage, I needed a monitoring solution that runs locally and stores everything locally, not on someone elses server. So I landed on prometheus as the monitoring service hooked up to grafana to visualize the data all running in docker. ...

Ntfy is an absolutely amazing service for sending push notifications to your phone or other devices with a simple web request, I use it for alerts from my uptime monitor (HetrixTools) and ssh logins. Mine is hosted on a google cloud free tier e2 micro instance which gives me great reliability for free. Heres how to set it up with docker and proper authentication for personal use - you can find a guide on how to secure whatever Linux server your hosting this on here. ...

Currently my Homelab is used to run services for personal use, my stuff exposed to the internet and services for friends or people in my local community. The original goal of this setup was to build a service that lets me cancel most of my vps subscriptions, which so far has succeeded, the next goal is to make the service as reliable or close to as reliable as a proper hosting provider. ...