While most choices made for this server makes sense to me it is important to note that I already had some of the hardware like the motherboard or some disks. That's in part why I use an AMD cpu while it is recommended to use an Intel cpu for my kind of needs.

Hardware

• Disks :
  • 2 * Seagate IronWolf Pro 4 To HDD (ST4000NE001)
  • 1 * Seagate BarraCuda 4 To HDD (ST4000DMZ04)
  • 2 * Crucial BX500 SATA 1To SSD (CT1000BX500SSD101)
  • YIWENTEC H0101 SATA cable
• Noctua NH-U12S redux
• Ryzen 5 5600G
• Corsair RM650 ATX
• Fractal Design Node 304
• ASRock B450 ITX
• ULANSeN Dual 2.5G pci low profile

Software

The OS is Proxmox and everything described bellow is ran on it’s own KVM virtual machine. In the future I might make this section more precise and list every docker container and service I run but for now I’m too lazy to do it.

• Proxmox
  • Run on both SSD’s in a zfs mirror
• OpnSense
  • Every VM containing public facing services is ran through an OpnSense VLAN.
• Unraid
  • Run off of a usb key passed trought by proxmox to the VM directly.
  • Passtrought of all of the HDD’s and 250 Gb of SSD for cache
• 3 * Ubuntu Docker VM’s
  • 1 for reverse proxy / logs aggregation / security services
  • 1 for publicly hosted services (monero node, dns, …)
  • 1 for private services
• Windows 11 VM
• Ubuntu VM