About a year ago, I have made a blog post about how I run things round here. Since then, a lot of things have passed. Since I think that I’m more free now than I will be in 3 months, when I initally planned on making this post, I’ve decided to just do it now.

The components

My suite of servers is comprised of the following computers:

• Frantech/BuyVM VPS: I use this as a VPN in order for me to be able to expose my services to the internet without needing to port forward on my home IP address. It also doubles as an email server, so that’s neat.
• HP Elitedesk 800 G2 mini This is the server that runs everything. I have installed Proxmox on it. I have a few VMs and containers. Since this computer comes in multiple variations, here are the specifications for the model I have:

The stack

I primarily use docker for just about everything (minus the matrix server), as it is a pretty convenient way to spin up containers and not have to deal with houndreds of dependencies, or in some cases, convoluted installation procedures.

My regrets

I don’t really have any regrets for my current setup, as everything is running fine, but in the future I wish to upgrade to 16gb of ram, and maybe a better CPU.