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Two mini-PCs, pretending to be a datacenter.
A small vSphere cluster on two mini-PCs. Quiet, frugal, ECC where it matters. Fifteen VMs that mostly behave.
# Homelab notes, self-hosted services,
# and the occasional write-up about what broke.
# Scroll to boot the rack.
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.
A small vSphere cluster on two mini-PCs. Quiet, frugal, ECC where it matters. Fifteen VMs that mostly behave.
A NAS with raidz2, snapshotted nightly, replicated off-site. The only layer where I refuse to experiment.
Fortigate at the edge, Ubiquiti behind it. Four VLANs you actually need, and four you talked yourself into on a Sunday.
nginx, home-assistant, NetBox, paperless, notes — plus a few small things written for myself that nobody else needs.
Prometheus scrapes, Grafana draws, PRTG nags. Everything else is a graph I looked at once and never opened again.
Restic to local disk, then the NAS, then cold storage. Three copies, two media, one off-site. Restores tested twice, in 2025. One worked.
# Keep scrolling — the units report in one by one.
$ 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, and a postcard from anywhere with a soldering iron in it is best. I read everything. I reply to most things. Eventually.