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Alagaësia

A self-hosted homelab that grew from an old desktop into a small cluster. Everything here runs on hardware in my closet.

// "Change itself is nether good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful." - Eragon

overview

A compact 10-inch rack running a virtualization cluster, network-attached storage, and a segmented UniFi network. It hosts the services on the home page — plus monitoring, dashboards, and an isolated lab for security work. Built incrementally, with verification at every step.

by the numbers

3
CLUSTER NODES
64GB
RAM
8TB
STORAGE
100%
SELF-HOSTED

infrastructure

Compute Two-node Proxmox cluster on Dell OptiPlex Micros hosting LXC + VMs. Standalone Proxmox node with GPU. Running cyber attack range and local LLMs.
Storage Raspberry Pi 5 NAS with a mergerfs pool, served to the cluster over NFS.
Network UniFi gateway and switching, VLAN-segmented with granular firewall rules.
Edge & TLS Caddy reverse proxy with automatic wildcard certificates via DNS challenge.

what it runs

Media streaming
Photo library
Game servers
Monitoring
Dashboards
Uptime tracking
Security lab
Local AI

philosophy

Segmentation first, minimal surface area, and a bias toward understanding why things break over pattern-matching fixes. Lean configs, few dependencies, and infrastructure that's meant to be set-and-forget.