Nandeep Mali

· Behind the hearth

My homelab

⌂SELF
HOSTED

· The homegrown keep

Building and operating
at home.

This is my 7-year-old infrastructure hobby, running in production capacity: a place to run real services, keep control of my data, and make useful things available to the people around me.

I run these services because I use them, and because keeping them running is part of the fun.

7years running
∞opportunities to learn

· What lives in this lab

Services for home and family

The things we rely on to keep media, data, play, and experiments close to home.

Media & memories

A private place for photographs, documents, and everyday collaboration — keeping the things that matter close, organized, and available at home.

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Entertainment

A place for films, shows, games, and the shared rituals that make a home feel lively.

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Storage

A dependable home for important data, designed to keep it resilient, well-organized, and within reach.

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Local intelligence

A private space to experiment with AI locally, keeping ideas, conversations, and creative work close to home.

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Security

A layered perimeter for the network, remote access, and the cameras watching over the keep.

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More ideas are brewing

The keep is still growing. What should this adventurer host, learn, or build next?

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· The machines

Hardware notes

Everything here was self-assembled, with parts sourced over years from all over the world.

COMPUTE & STORAGE

The Ironkeep

Motherboard
Supermicro X10DAX
CPU
2 × Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 · 32 cores / 64 threads total
Memory
128 GiB DDR4 ECC · 4 × 32 GiB · 2133 MT/s
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
Network
2 × Intel I210 Gigabit Ethernet
Storage
  • 2 × 6 TB Seagate IronWolf HDD in a ZFS mirror
  • 250 GB Samsung SSD
  • 1 TB Crucial SSD
System
Debian 12 · Proxmox VE
MAIN WORKSTATION & AI

The Foundry

Motherboard
ASRock WRX90 WS EVO
CPU
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9955WX · 16 cores / 32 threads
Memory
96 GiB DDR5 ECC RDIMM · 4 × 24 GiB · 6400 MT/s
Graphics
  • 2 × AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (20 GB each)
  • 1 × AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24 GB)
  • 64 GB total VRAM
Network
2 × Intel X710 10Gb Ethernet
Storage
  • 2 TB NVMe
  • 1 TB NVMe
  • 4 TB Seagate IronWolf HDD
  • 2 × 1 TB Crucial SSD
System
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
COMPUTE & MEDIA

The Engine House

Motherboard
Gigabyte Aorus Z390
CPU
Intel Core i7-8700K · 6 cores / 12 threads
Memory
64 GB DDR4 · 4 × 16 GB · 3200 MHz
Graphics
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER · 8 GB
Storage
  • 1 TB Crucial SSD
System
Debian 12 · Proxmox VE
FIREWALL & SERVICES

The Gatehouse

Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 (rev. 1.0)
CPU
Intel Xeon L5640 · 6 cores / 12 threads
Memory
12 GB G.Skill DDR3 · triple-channel configuration
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
Storage
  • 1 TB SSD
System
Debian 12 · Proxmox VE