Homelabbing
What is homelabbing?
Why would you want to self-host?
- Learn & Experiment
- Privacy & Control
- Cost Savings
Great! But I don’t have any hardware…
- Old desktops/laptops
- Raspberry Pi
- Other cheap SBCs
- VPS
- ESP-32 (ESPHome)
Challenges of Homelabbing
- Security & Maintenance
- Network Configuration
- Learning Curve
Now, on to some services
Immich
https://demo.immich.app
Wakapi
Home Assistant
Streaming
How to get started
- Define your goals (what and why do you want to host?)
- Start with the hardware you have (or buy some very cheap, used hardware)
- Learn as you go (break things and learn to fix them)
- Come to next week’s UUG talk on setting up your first homelab
Questions?