Homelab Diary #1: Where This Started

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0100

This is the first entry in what I’m calling the Homelab Diary: a running log of my self-hosting setup, what’s working, what’s on fire, and what I end up doing about it.

Here’s where things stand. Somewhere along the way I ended up running a media server for a library that’s now past 30,000 songs and movies, a handful of private tools I use daily, a Foundry VTT container my group uses for our TTRPG sessions, and a few websites, including the one you’re reading this on as well as my own gitea repository. There’s also a Matrix Synapse server I set up once the EU Chat Control debate started picking up steam, mostly so my own chats didn’t depend on whatever a platform or a regulator decided to do next. Internal services sit behind a reverse proxy, and the public-facing ones go out through a Cloudflare tunnel instead of anything exposed directly. Almost everything is managed through Portainer, which I reach over a VPN when I’m not home.

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Homelab Diary #1: Where This Started