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Proxmox Homelab: A Scalable, Self-Hosted Ecosystem

Welcome to my homelab — a powerful and ever-evolving self-hosted environment where I explore, build, and manage real-world infrastructure and services. What started as a learning tool has grown into a full-featured internal network supporting virtualization, automation, reverse proxying, and containerized service orchestration.

Architecture & Infrastructure

Built on a 3-node Proxmox cluster, my homelab emulates enterprise-level deployment practices, offering high availability and scalability. VMs and containers run mission-critical services such as:

  • NGINX Reverse Proxy for intelligent routing
  • TrueNAS Scale for reliable and redundant storage with iSCSI and NFS shares
  • Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, and qBittorrent orchestrated across dedicated VMs for media automation
  • Plex Media Server, GPU-accelerated, supporting multiple concurrent transcodes
  • WireGuard VPN for secure, remote access to internal services
  • Cloudflare Tunnel + Zero Trust for protected public access via a custom domain

DevOps & Experimentation

I use my homelab to self-host websites including this site! I have 24/7/365 game servers like Minecraft, palworld, and more. It serves as a development and deployment hub with my own private GitLab instance and CI/CD runners for automated builds, testing, and fast deployment of project changes. Beyond that, it’s a space where I experiment with Docker, automation tools, networks, and system architecture to continually refine and expand my skillset.

Purpose & Passion

This project showcases my hands-on experience with:

  • Virtualization
  • GPU passthrough
  • Containerization
  • Networking
  • DNS configuration and domain management
  • Secure remote access design

More than just a personal project, my homelab is a dynamic playground where curiosity meets capability. It's where I break things to learn, and build things to grow.

Here are some images of my Proxmox lab setup:

Proxmox Lab Image 1
Proxmox Lab Image 2
Proxmox Lab Image 3
Proxmox Lab Image 4
Proxmox Lab Image 5
Proxmox Lab Image 6

Made with ❤️ by Joshua Sooaemalelagi.

Contact me: [email protected]

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