Servers

Gromit

Gromit is my all-purpose machine for both test and production environments. The CPU was chosen for its high single-threaded performance, which is ideal for running game servers such as Minecraft.

The current hardware is as follows:

• i5-7600K
• 16 GB DDR4
• GTX 960 for transcoding
• NVMe boot drive
• 7 mismatched drives:
  • 5 for network share (4.2 TB pool using mergerfs)
  • 4 TB backup
  • 4 TB parity
• Mellanox ConnectX-3 10 Gbps SFP+ NIC

The majority of services are containerised in Docker, and serve only a few users. Services include:

• Samba
• Jellyfin
• Authentik
• Immich
• Vaultwarden
• Home Assistant
• Game servers

Timmy

Timmy is a small Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q Tiny, working as an offsite backup machine. As my upload speed at home is pretty poor, this also hosts a Jellyfin instance for more performant video streaming. The i5-6500T seems okay for simple transcoding.

Victor

Victor is a future Proxmox machine, built on a dual-X99 platform. I intend it to host pretty much every service besides game hosting, which would benefit from Gromit’s better single-threaded performance. The drive pool will also be moved to this machine.

Planned hardware is as follows:

• 2x Xeon E5-2680v4
• 32 GB DDR4

Preston

Preston is currently out of action, but was built to be a OPNSense router. It’s a hunk of junk with a watercooled i3-6100 and open frame case.