For my home server ’needs’ I run a 3 node Proxmox cluster comprising of the following:

Storage Server - Dell T20

• Xeon E3-1225 v3
• 12GB Ram
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• 120gb SSD boot drive
• 4x2TB Rust in ZFS RaidZ for file storage and backups
• 4x120gb SSD in mdadm Raid10 for VM storage
• Services
  • Plex
  • Webmin
  • Ubuntu Livepatch

Cluster Nodes - Dell R210ii

• Xeon E3-1230 v1
• 16gb Ram
• Proxmox 6.3
• 120gb Boot drive

Other Hardware

• APC Smart-UPS 1500
• Netgear GS108Tv2
• FRITZ!box 7530 - Zen Provided

VMs

• Download - Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, NZBGet and Muximux to tie them together
• Log - Cloudlog amateur radio QSO logging software
• Valheim - Valheim server
• Aeronaut - IRCCat bot
• Mail - Mailcow server for my .tech domain
• Factorio - Factorio server

Despite this all being fairly old hardware I find that for my usage everything sits at around 100W power draw, even when maxed out (folding@home on everything) the highest draw I have seen was around 350W.

I’m lucky enough to be close enough to a FTTC cab to get the full 80/20 available so I can host things comfortably.

Its nice to know that there is enough power to spin up anything I want to play with or a dedicated server to what ever game I happen to be playing at the time.

Future Projects

• 10Gb Networking between Storage and the Nodes
• Move to a VM router
• Unifi wifi6
• Swap out the 2TB disks in the ZFS array for larger disks