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Optiplex NAS

Runs local NAS and YunoHost Virtual Machine

The Town Square is currently running on a Dell Optiplex 5050 that I bought on eBay for $60. It lives on the bottom shelf of some IKEA IVAR set up in my office. It's connected to a gigabit switch which hooks to the router through a powerline ethernet adapter. Not a perfect setup but it works fine for my needs.

A while back the 500 GB drive the thing came with died, but fortunately that wasn't part of the actually used storage of the server. The RAID is still running just fine 👌

Machine Specs

  • Intel Core i5-6600 @ 3.3 GHz
  • 8GB RAM
  • 3x2TB HDDs configured in RAID 5 for 3.64TiB of raw storage
  • 1x128GB SSD boot drive
Anton, Network Engineer Bunny

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Raspberry Pi 3B+ Proxy Server

To support web servers running on different machines/domains I've added an Nginx reverse proxy running on an old Raspberry Pi 3B+. This allows me to run stuff outside of the Yunohost VM that's currently running most of my services. I like Yunohost, but it's hard to figure out what's going on when things don't work right as compared to running bare-metal or in a container.

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