A running list of the hardware and software I use. Most of this gear was inherited or pieced together over time. I still plan to build this out further.

Hardware

Rack

  • Tecmojo 12U Rack
  • Netgear Nighthawk RAX70 — Router
  • Netgear GS316EP — 16-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE+ Smart Switch

NAS

  • QNAP TS-253A — Running a few containers (Pi-hole, Homer dashboard, Semaphore, Uptime Kuma)

Servers

  • Lenovo S500 SFF

    • Intel Core i7-4790S @ 3.2GHz
    • 8GB RAM
    • 1TB HDD

  • 2x ThinkCentre M92p (Type 3237)

    • Intel Core i5-3470
    • 4GB RAM each
    • 128GB SSD each

Laptops

  • Dell Latitude 3420 (11th Gen)

    • Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 4.2GHz
    • 8GB RAM
    • 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe

  • ThinkPad X250 (Type 20CL)

    • Intel Core i5-5300U @ 2.30GHz
    • 4GB RAM
    • 500GB SAS Hot-Swap

Desktop

  • Custom PC
    • Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.6GHz (Turbo 4.9GHz)
    • 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400MHz (2x8GB)
    • Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB
    • 2TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus
    • 240GB Gigabyte SSD
    • 1TB Seagate Barracuda
    • OS: Windows 11 (for gaming)

Monitor

  • Dell U4025QW — 40" ultrawide

Peripherals

  • Keyboard: Logitech G915 TKL
  • Mouse: Razer Basilisk V3

Software

Operating Systems

  • Desktop: Windows 11 (gaming) / Fedora (homelab servers)
  • Servers: Fedora Server

Containers & Orchestration

  • Podman + podman-compose
  • Portainer (for container management on NAS)

Infrastructure

  • Ansible
  • Foreman
  • Pi-hole (DNS)
  • Uptime Kuma (monitoring)
  • Homer (dashboard)
  • Semaphore (Ansible UI)

Networking

  • Pi-hole

Other Tools

  • vim / VS Code
  • tmux
  • Git