If you had to start your homelab from scratch... (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by diffraa@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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For reasons unexplained, you have no homelab hardware, but $1,000 in cash earmarked for the purpose.

What are you buying, what are you installing on it, and how is it different from what you've done previously (i.e. lessons learned)?

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[-] EasilyPeasily@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Dell Poweredge budget server. R720 can have good specs for cheap on eBay. Get a ubiquiti switch for vlans. Firewall brand of your choice I did tz400w. You should have some money left over to buy an endpoint as well. Then install VMWare and build out a vm environment of your choice. I chose windows just to continue learning the systems I administer.

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