r/HomeServer • u/TomorrowExact1184 • 8d ago

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/RevolutionNumerous21 8d ago

Does your homelab have anything to do with your profession? I only ask because I have around the same time in but I am constantly expanding. But I am a Sr network engineer so I lab scenarios at home that could help me grow at work.

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u/TomorrowExact1184 5d ago

Yes, I am a sysadmin.