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Start tossing my homelab
Initial reason
I wanted to start tossing homelab because the cost of cloud servers is relatively expensive, as an individual user, in the absence of a business model, I wanted to save as much budget as possible, using open source github works to build services for their own use.
After learning about frp, an open source intranet penetration tool, I tried it and found that it can be very good against the interference of broadband operators and idle, the home of various laptops/hosts and other non-dedicated server hardware to use effectively.
Host and configuration
Purchased 3 mini-hosts for around $145
Home mac mini and desktop host, are productivity tools, can not be used as a server, and professional servers, and power and noise problems, so focus on the mini pc:
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cpu performance can be used on the line,
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Memory is best > 16gb
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Hard disk capacity is best 512gb
In China's e-commerce sites, there are many years of such mini pc, I bought a total of 3 units, the table is organized as follows:
| website | brand | image | price | amazon price | aliexpress price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xiaomi Youpin | Ningmei |
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174$ | TRIGKEY 199& | |
| KYOTO | konka |
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145$ | KAMRUI 199$ | GK3V 125$ |
Zero Moment |
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159 $ | Beelink 239$ | Belink 249$ |
openwrt router
Router purchased an openwrt router from the Chinese e-commerce site Taobao: . gl-inet's sft1200 travel router
Server deployment
For the linux server, I choose a web control panel: 'aapanel'[^1], which is the international version of the Chinese company 'pagoda panel'
At some point in the future, I will definitely replace it, after all, there may be privacy issues, or other indescribable monitoring
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Build a wordpress blog
Documenting the process of building and using homelab
I bought the domain name: homelabbity.org from namecheap, and then did the following:
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dns pointed to
cloudfare -
Apply ssl certificate:
Let's Encrypt, to encrypt the site -
Self-hosted wordpress: download zip file, run/proxy with `php+nginx
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Choose a suitable blog theme
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Install seo plugin
Finally
It's fun to be able to access servers in other countries, and your own home server, via ssh at any time 🙃