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Sep 20, 2025
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Building my own server

My experience on building my own homelab
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My Story

I bought a mini pc to be used as my personal gaming machine. Only lasted a week and I am not using it anymore Some times went by, and now I am thinking to have my own personal server It was quite overwhelming at first but I start to pickup the notch the more I dive into the whole homelabing

I am using proxmox to host bunch of container/vm like nextcloud (my first working container - I followed this youtube and its working wonder), next, I host jellyfin and rebrand it into tv.tinul with the help of my friend, Wari. I also host this website that you are reading right now

At first it was just a mini pc with no extra storage (I want to have a long term and a bigger storage for all the important things that I have saved) So, Later I bought a 2TB hard disk, I accidentally bought a wrong size (I bought a bigger one and my mini pc can’t even power it). So I need to delay my project for a day to buy an external Hard disk to usb 3.0 rather than to use SATA. As long as it works, I’m fine.

Evolutions of my Homelab

Init

  • The nextcloud welcome screen with tv at the background

Malaysianize homelab

  • On top of a tv’s table

Server “Rack”

  • Bought a small 2 storey mini coffee table

Services that I host

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