Started as a hobby with an old i5 laptop (sans keyboard and screen), running Jellyfin. I wanted to learn more than just using Debian as a desktop.

Now my home lab consists of...

• 2x PiHoles (synced using unison and entr)
• 2x Jellyfin (1 for my use as a media server and 1 on a Unifi Cloudkey, which I am using for another little pet project).
• 2x Nextcloud (1 for my business and colloborating with clients on the various projects I get from them, and 1 I am modifying to build myself an online school)
• Gitea
• My own software to do round the clock transcoding of videos using a GPU including videos I create myself in Kdenlive or Shotcut.
• My own software to do managed downloading of content from a well known website
• Transmission
• Unifi (not on Unifi Hardware, the hardware was more useful for my other project mentioned above)
• Calibre-Web
• My own software to do daily incremental archives of my various production servers in the cloud.

I love selfhosting at home, and I recommended it for anyone who wants to learn.

Yes, I have fudged up a few times and had to nuke and start again, but with each time I get better and better at what I am doing.

I am now planning on moving my Gitea and the main Nextcloud instance into the cloud, as my poor little fibre line is not coping with the traffic.