Hi, second time posting here about my homelab, first time I needed advice and now I'm here to show and get feedback, and ideas for improvement.

For comparison this was my first post

Hardware : (all of this stuff is from family or relatives, companies that were throwing out stuff, old hardware of mine, and things that I took out the trash)

* HP-slimdesk: i5-10400, 16GB RAM
* Acer-aspire desktop: i5-10400F, GTX 1050 TI, 16GB RAM
* Rack case server: intel Xeon X5675, 8GB Ram, GTX 1660
* HPE proliant micro server gen 10, opteron CPU, 16 GB RAM, 4x 1TB HDD in raid z1
* Fortigate 100f used as second router to have more ports and not expose the vulnerabilities
* OPENWRT Netgear router used as primary router
* Asus router used as access point

I run three proxmox nodes, one is for network traffic and stays always active, the other ones are not fully setted up yet, and will be probably used for AI and media server.

This is why they are not clustered, so I don't have to deal with quorum, if I need to migrate some assets I use Proxmox Datacenter Manager in a VM.

All my data and backups are stored in my Nas, and all my services are backed up nightly with Proxmox Backup Server that is virtualized too.

I'm thinking about building another backup option, throwing together all my spare small HDD's that would give me my third reliable copy, I'm not yet in a condition to set up an off-site backup, but it is in my future plans.

Self hosted Gitea, and automation trough ansible and bash is my current project.

I am interested in kubernetes but it's not a rabbit hole I want to dive in just yet.  Another cool system I'm experimenting with is Nix OS, that I'm trying out on my desktop.

What do you think? Drop your feedback, advice, idea, project, experience.

Bye

2 years into homelabbing (17yo)