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The home lab

A mini PC running Proxmox and a NAS, reachable from outside only through Tailscale

Situation

Talking about your own servers is easy, running them is not. The work sits in what never appears in a vendor presentation. Updates and backups, for instance, or how to reach the machines while away without exposing anything to the open internet.

Approach

A mini PC with Proxmox as the hypervisor, plus a NAS for storage and backups. Nothing is open to the outside. Neither the mini PC nor the NAS has a port forwarded in the router, and access from away runs through Tailscale only. I do not run a DNS service of my own; this setup does not need one.

Outcome

An environment to try things out that holds up in everyday use. And the experience of what operation costs even at this size. A service is set up in an hour and is someone's job from then on.