Hi, in my very first blog post ever, I’m very excited to show you how and what is being hosted in my homelab. Let’s take a look around!

Hardware

In the past, when SBC’s weren’t as efficient and cheap as now I had been using an old Dell Optiplex PC for some time. Then I realised that I could lower my power bill as well as save some precious space in my room by switching to something smaller. I wanted to try something less popular than the Raspberry Pi so I decided to give the Orange Pi Zero 3 a try. It has a quad-core Allwinner H618 ARM CPU paired with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM. As for peripherals it has a USB 2.0 port and most importantly a single gigabit NIC. I’m aware that those specs aren’t spectacular, but almost any modern smartphone lying around in a drawer will perform better, but considering my current needs it’s my sweet spot. This server could also be used as a Wake-On-LAN server in the future to turn on more powerful servers when needed.