Kaizen #4: Overhauled homelab

I started this “blog-series” to force myself to write more about my set up, and my continuous iterations. But it didn’t happen… until today! This post has been a long time coming, and I have kept the ideas in my head and notes. I will walk through everything I did, in order: Previous setup Network situation What I self-hosted Networking Fiber adventure Wiring Wiring the garage The new server The new setup Debian Dokploy Media Jellyfin Immich Files Monitoring Miscellaneous qBittorrent Linkding Mesh VPN Final result What’s remaining Previous setup Two years ago, I revamped my homelab. I had just bought a new machine to use as my main home server, coming from a 9U server rack with a bunch of machines tangled together. Back then I finally sat down to figure out how I want things. And it has worked great… until it hasn’t. The new machine back then, a Zimaboard, was set up with NixOS, which seems excellent and worked perfectly until I wanted to do a basic cronjob for backups. I never…