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Building a Mini Data Center: A Journey of Scaling and Adaptation
As projects began to grow in size and complexity, the need for a more “enterprise” solution became increasingly apparent. This realization sparked the beginning of an ambitious plan – to build a mini data center in my garage.
The first steps involved logistical preparations. I hired an electrician to install the necessary power infrastructure, and I began the task of dividing the garage into two sections. One part would house the data center, while the other would accommodate a car and other miscellaneous items.
Once the data room construction was complete, it was time to equip it. I ordered a server rack, servers, various IT equipment, and a ventilation system. The result was a 42U rack filled with servers, two tower servers, a Network Video Recorder (NVR), and switches.
The room is cooled using two 12″ intake ventilation fans and a 20″ exhaust fan, maintaining positive pressure to keep dust and dirt out.
Inside this data room, I run two virtualization nodes, allowing me to create virtual servers for any need I might have. There’s also a 100TB file server and a docker node for various containers. Additionally, I have a dedicated streaming server that streams GPU-accelerated video 24/7 and a transcoding server for on-the-fly hardware transcoding of video files.
Here are some of the services/solutions I run:
- Web server
- 2 Domain Controllers
- WSUS server
- MDT / WDS Server
- Rundeck
- Uptime Kuma
- Plausible
- phpIPAM
- KMS Server
- Mail server
- Database server
- Plex
- Emby
- xTeVe
- 2 PiHole (master & slave)
- Reverse Proxy Server
- Storj Node
- Gitea
- Grafana
- OwnCloud
- OnlyOffice
- Home Assistant
- Prometheus
- Searxng
- VaultWarden
- RainLoop
- Pritunl
- Planka
- Overseerr
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Bazarr
- SiteInspector
Building this mini data center has been a journey of scaling and adaptation. It’s a testament to the power of innovation and the possibilities of home-based enterprise solutions. As the projects continue to grow, this data center will serve as a robust and reliable foundation, ready to meet the evolving needs.
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