There’s something very satisfying about repurposing old hardware into a homelab that actually does something useful. A single Raspberry Pi in a closet or a full rack with proper networking gear - still a home lab!
We’d love to hear what your homelab setup actually looks like today and what workloads you’re throwing at it?
My journey started with replacing my ISP cable modem about ~ 7 years ago, over time it grew and grew.
My main platform is a proxmox/ceph cluster, running 2 containers and 20 VMs. They handle mail, dns, dhcp, database, network monitoring, etc.
There’s also a straight Debian 13 machine, doing ldap, nfs server, and acts as a guinea pig for various testing.
I also have a surprisingly stable FreeBSD server running an nfs server, a samba4 domain controller, a dns server and 6 VMs.
Oh, and a mini-x86_64 box running Debian 13, that does network backup.
I know, it’s a lot of hardware, but it sort of grew organically, one box at a time.
I completely understand this. It’s a slippery slope! 
