I started building my homelab in the summer of 2023. Now, in 2025, it has evolved into a solid and efficient setup tailored to my needs.
Let’s begin with networking. My setup includes a TP-Link Archer AX1500 WiFi 6 router and a Zyxel GS-1200 Gigabit Ethernet switch. A firewall is planned for later this year to enhance security and control.
Regarding my server, I use Proxmox with virtual machines and containers running Debian 12. My Proxmox server is equipped with an Intel Core i5-3330 processor, 16 GB of RAM, a 256 GB SSD for the operating system and four 1 TB hard drives. One hard drive is dedicated to Immich, two to TrueNAS (with SMB and NFS sharing), one for storing my music (Plex) and a 1.5 TB external hard drive specifically used to store backups of my virtual machines and containers. Most applications run in my Docker cluster, with a dedicated VM for specific uses such as multimedia (photo and video storage, music distribution, ...) another for networking (DNS, VPN, ...) and finally another one responsible for backing up everything in the cloud