A very humble little homelab

I know this is nowhere near the professional homelabs usually posted here, but I wanted to share my little setup anyway.

The “rack” is improvised, the hardware is modest, and cable management is definitely a work in progress. 😅

The main machine runs Proxmox, hosting several services and experiments:

– ARR stack

– Hermes Agent

– SearXNG

– n8n

– Other self-hosted services and experiments

I also use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Free Tier for one specific purpose: Pi-hole.

Pi-hole runs in OCI and I connect to it through Tailscale, so my devices can use it as their DNS resolver without exposing Pi-hole directly to the Internet.

So the setup is roughly:

Home

→ Proxmox

→ VMs / containers

→ AI agents, automation, media and other services

OCI Free Tier

→ Pi-hole

→ Tailscale

→ Remote DNS for my devices

Nothing here is particularly enterprise-grade.

And that's exactly the point.

I'm more interested in having a small, inexpensive infrastructure where I can experiment with virtualization, self-hosting, networking, automation and AI agents than building the biggest possible homelab.

It's a very small lab.

But it lets me turn ideas into working infrastructure without paying for cloud resources every time I want to test something.

Still evolving. Still learning.

And yes… the cable management is next. 😂