kruijsbeek@home:~ $
whoami
# homelab notes, self-hosted services,
# and the occasional write-up about what broke.
# $ welcome — pull up a terminal.
# homelab notes, self-hosted services,
# and the occasional write-up about what broke.
# $ welcome — pull up a terminal.
kruijsbeek.nl is a homelab and personal infrastructure notebook. Self-hosted services, small experiments with networking and storage, and the occasional write-up about what broke and how.
# No platform. No SaaS. Just a quiet rack, a UPS, and a fiber line into the meterkast. The internet, the way it used to feel — owned, weird, and a little bit slow on purpose.
→ If you're into homelabs, NixOS, photography, or running your own services in 2026, you'll probably find something here you recognise.
# The whole point of a homelab is that it stops being interesting,
# and starts being something that simply runs. This is what runs here.
A small vsphere cluster on 2 mini-PCs. Quiet, frugal, ECC where it matters.
NAS with raid, snapshotted nightly, replicated off-site. Slow on purpose. Boring on purpose.
Fortigate, Ubiquiti, 4 VLANs you actually need and four you didn't. Fiber in, copper out.
nginx, home-assistant, Netbox, notes, paperless, and a couple of small things written for myself that nobody else needs.
Prometheus, Grafana, PRTG, and a single dashboard that answers the question "is anything on fire right now."
Restic to local disk, NAS, then to cold storage. 3-2-1, the old fashioned way. Tested never.
# A sample of the services humming on the rack today.
# Some are useful, some are leftovers from a Saturday afternoon.
$ cat ~/.contact -------------------------------- email hi@kruijsbeek.nl pgp 0xA1B2 C3D4 E5F6 7890 matrix @kruijsbeek:matrix.org git githomelab.kruijsbeek.nl rss /feed.xml -------------------------------- latency ~ 2 business days spam silently dropped
Email is fine, signed email is better, a postcard from anywhere with a soldering iron in it is best. I read everything. I reply to most things. Eventually.