Homelab v2

2026-09 to present · ongoing

Proxmox VE
KVM
Nginx
Ansible
HTTPS
Offsite backups

overview

I rebuilt my homelab on open-source infrastructure so I can self-host production-style services. It currently runs my personal portfolio site (jwong.org) and an intranet with a dashboard.

goals

Keep critical services up when a single node fails.
Make every deployment repeatable instead of hand-configured.
Protect data against hardware failure with offsite backups.
Serve everything over HTTPS with sensible access rules.

what i built

Redundant critical services on [Proxmox VE / KVM / containers], so a single node failure does not take them down.
Automated [deployments / configuration] with [Ansible / GitHub Actions] to keep builds repeatable.
Weekly backups to an offsite location to protect against hardware failure and data loss.
Sites served over HTTPS behind [Nginx / Cloudflare] with [firewall / access rules].

architecture

[Describe the layout in a few sentences: how many nodes, how services fail over, how traffic reaches them.]

internet -> [Cloudflare / reverse proxy] -> [services on node A / node B]
                                   |
                       [weekly offsite backup]

results & lessons

[A number: uptime, restore time, services hosted.]
[Something that broke and how you fixed it.]
[What you would do differently.]

Earlier version: Homelab v1 (2020 to 2024).