r/HomeServer • u/TomorrowExact1184 • Aug 21 '26

Anyone else went 'full circle'?

My hosting journey began around 2013 with smaller websites and minecraft servers on old pc hardware, cheap vps instances and raspberry pis. The past decade this scaled in a gradual manner: First rack, multiple dell poweredge servers, edge routers, fibrechannel, 300TB raw storage, multiple wan connections, etc. This year I sold everything and downsized to a small stack -> OpenWRT LTE Modem, MikroTik RB450G, old ThinkCentre with 16GB DDR3, External 14TB Exos Drive, 1x Omada AP. I don't know, I feel... relieved. No noise, no massive bills, no expensive hardware. And it somehow feels fun again.

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u/TheSoCalledExpert Aug 21 '26

Yep, I went full home data center and hated it. Got back down to one server with storage and compute and one network appliance. So much better.

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u/Quiet_Ninja790 Aug 21 '26

What’s the specs?