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Yes, use Debian, no the packages are not from 2009.

No, core2duo won't be an efficient server.

Congrats for buying your first NAS. You don't have to tell everyone that you bought a random optiplex though, you're not the only one.

No, a gaming router won't give you more "performance".

If you want to use a Apple minipc as a server, yeah go for it, just don't cry if 80% of the linux programs won't be compatible.

If you want a homelab to learn IT or neworking, why say "I need something that just works"?

No, a single tplink archer won't cover your 200m² property.

No, some cheap aliexpress wifi extenders are not a good idea.

Don't buy a Mikrotik router if you don't even know how to setup a tplink router and then cry it's hard to configure

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I've helped a lot of my mates with their homelabs in the past, and all of them were IPv4 first with IPv6 enabled on some VLANs (usually just the end-user network).

I get that IPv4 addresses are nice and easy to type, but really you shouldn't be using IP literals. All of my friends have domain names, too.

In my homelab, it's quite the opposite. I've been on the IPv6 kick since the mid 2010s when my ISP rolled it out. Most VLANs are IPv6 only, and I rarely add IPv4 addresses to DNS. Is anyone else the same?

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I'd really prefer not to use a cloud service owned by some big corp. I feel like that kind of defies the point of setting up my own services. Any ideas?

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I had a shower idea a couple weeks ago about a lighter-weight certificate signing service for homelabs and dev environments where full LetsEncrypt certificates might be too much of a hassle. Our dev and staging environments at work use self-signed CA for 100+ VMs, most of which respin on a nightly basis. We normally would use some tooling to sign, encrypt, and deliver via Ansible certs to our hosts, but we spend more time than I'd like managing those.

LessEncrypt is a simple client and server that uses reverse DNS lookups to identify the certificate CN and SANs, and then deliver back to the host a signed cert. It uses ports in the <1024 range to lend some air of authority to the request.

https://github.com/linsomniac/lessencrypt

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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/BottleJust5876 on 2025-05-31 03:54:39+00:00.

Original Title: New rack update. Goal is to build a new router and add a new ups by the end of this year and to have it mostly filled by the end of 2026. And before any of you point out everything being up top, I'm getting ready to have my AI machine put on a shelf at the bottom, as soon as the shelf arrives.

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