Get to know my HomeLab
Hey, it's Krish Patel and I am the one who has created this server setup that I will be talking about. This setup consists of two products; the first is a Synology DS220+ Server that I purchased from amazon in September of 2021 and the second server is a dell enterprise grade computer purchased from a seller on facebook marketplace.
Synology
On my synology server, I have a few different purposes for it.
The first is to store my files through a process of computer sync
that allows my files in a specific folder to be automatically
synced with the server then also with my google drive.
The second reason is to host my media server(plex).
The final and most important reason is that I get to host all
of my websites on here at no extra charge.
Syno DS220+
Dell T5400
This Dell Percision T5400 is my main server, it is a hypervisor
that I use to host many virtual machines for my personal use wherever
I go. Some of the virtual machines that I currently use are
windows-server 2019 as my remote desktop, then there is ubuntu server
20.04 and 22.04. Another one that I am just recently getting into is
kali-linux because there are some interesting applications that I can
explore on there.
Dell T5400
Dell Laptop
The laptop that I am using as a server used to be my gaming laptop that I
converted to Windows Server 2019. The reasoning behind this is so
that I have a powerful windows machine where ever I go. The Windows
server OS allows me to to use remote desktop software to access the
server. There is also a powerful GPU inside so I can also configure it as a
cloud gaming server.
Dell Laptop
External UPS
I have added a ups to my setup for 1 main purpose; it allows some
time for me to shutdown all of my servers properly. Many times servers
without ups's can get damaged as power is interrupted and all of the
components were still running. To prevent this from happening to my
setup this 1500va ups was suitable for me and it works perfectly.
APC 1500va UPS
