Servers

This page is a rundown of my servers which I often use for personal reference, available for public consumption in case it's of interest.

Inspire

Inspire is my homeserver, it acts as a smart home manager and backup solution for my home.

Hardware

• AOOSTAR R7 2-bay NAS appliance
  • Ryzen 7 5700U (8 cores/16 threads up to 4.3GHz)
  • 16gb RAM
  • 500gb nvme drive
  • Google Coral TPU
  • 2x 14tb hard drives, one Seagate one WD

Software

The OS is Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS. It's rarely connected to a monitor, but using a desktop OS allows me to use it as a Steam in-home streaming server and remote desktop target from my phone.

All web based services are hosted in docker.

• Home Assistant -- the backbone of any good smart home
• Frigate -- security camera management with realtime image recognition
• Immich -- photo backup manager with facial recognition and image classification
• Navidrome -- fast and lightweight music server, supports subsonic api for apps
• iSponsorBlockTV -- connects to youtube players on the network to skip ads

Cryo

Cryo is a heavy duty seedbox and streaming media server assembled, deployed, and operated by me with some help from friends.

Hardware

• SuperMicro X8DTN+ Motherboard
• SuperChassis 826TQ-R800LPB 2U chassis
• 2x Intel Xeon E5520 @ 2.27GHz, 4 Cores 8 Threads (8/16 total)
• 12x Hynix HMT151R7BFR4C-H9 4GB DDR3-1333 RAM modules (48GB total)
• Adaptec RAID 71605 low profile RAID controller
• 10x "shucked" WD Easystore 8TB external hard drives
  • RAID 5
  • 72TB capacity with 1 drive fault tolerance
• 1TB WD Blue WDS100T2B0A 1TB SSD

The machine is physically hosted in a datacenter operated by PsychzNetworks with redundant power and 1 Gbps networking.

Software

The server OS is Ubuntu 22.04. All software is managed with Docker using multiple docker compose stacks for different related components.

Notable containers we're running:

• Portainer -- GUI for managing docker
• nginx-proxy -- nginx based ingress proxy, allows us to use domains and subdomains instead of ips/ports
• acme-companion -- generates and signs certs for nginx-proxy
• Showcase -- frontend app directory (by me)
• Plex -- media server
• Jellyfin -- alternative media server, for when we finally ditch Plex
• Tautulli -- Plex monitoring system
• Ombi -- user media requests management app
• Sonarr -- tv downloader
• Radarr -- movie downloader
• Lidarr -- music downloader
• Jackett -- private tracker API glue
• 8x Transmission -- torrent client, multiple copies used to maximize seeding
• CloudCMD -- web based file browser
• Watchtower -- container auto-updater
• LibreSpeed -- simple speedtest
• A couple dozen wordpress and static site containers, like the one you're viewing now.