My Homelab (2026)

January 12, 2026

This is still a collection of hardware from over the past 10 years of computer building for friends, family members, companies, and myself.

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I HAVE A RACK NOW!

I've explained most of this in my prior homelab post, so I'll keep this one relatively short with only some updates.

  • Organization goes in this order from top to bottom: Broken hardware, networking, GPU Compute, CPU Compute, UPS / Power

Networking

  • Networking is still at 1 gig, however I am now bridging my server VLAN to another switch, extending to all servers on the GPU Compute and CPU Compute shelves.
  • For the giant heat sink looking machine with a Zigbee Antenna - Still running opnsense on a virtualized proxmox container, passing through two physical NICs. I completed a mobile CPU upgrade to this box which actually noticeably increased my speeds!
  • I also use a Ubiquiti Cloud Key seen at the very right as a Tailscale router, sharing my server VLAN.

GPU Compute - Left To Right

  • The first pc case on the very left is my primary gaming pc, running Windows bare metal. I remote into it now from my edge nodes using Moonlight/Sunshine via Tailscale to game over the internet. Locally, I get 2-5ms of latency and about 10-15 miles away, I get roughly 20-25ms of latency. Barely noticeable for the games that I play.
  • The second server is my AI server running Proxmox for smaller sized models, having two AMD cards and 32 gigs of ram.
  • The third server is another AI server running Proxmox, running larger LLMs using an NVIDIA GPU. Also has 32 gigs of ram.
  • The 4th chassis is simply spare parts, containing most of the hardware from my first ever PC.
  • Ubiquiti Cloud Key used as tailscale router.

CPU Compute

  • I now do all of my CPU compute on the IBM System x3650 M4 running Proxmox, with a RaidZ2 on my drives and roughly 64 gigs of ram. This has been an absolute blast to play with, super unique challenges with commercial grade hardware, but is still very usable for my lightweight compute needs.

Thought I'd include a glamor shot of the hardware. Top notch cable management.

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