Chris Lorenzo

homelab and infrastructure notes · stayz3ro

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The systems, in order

every system this manual has touched, oldest first. each one links to the entry that documents it.

fig. 1 the lab, as it runs

STAYZ3RO LAB · SERVICE TOPOLOGY rev. 2026-09-29 · service view · drawn from the lab, as it runs internet the public side 443 · https NETCUP VPS caddy reverse proxy blog this manual portfolio the portfolio site uptime kuma status, public caddy + https live 2026-09-21 blog · portfolio · status, all public TAILSCALE private · my machines only HOME LAB · PROXMOX primary node · optiplex 7060 primary node second node · optiplex 3070 second node third node · elitedesk 800 g3 hosts the backup server pbs · backup-svr vmid 301 unifi network gear vlan segmentation up next STAYZ3RO LAB · SERVICE TOPOLOGY internet the public side 443 · https NETCUP VPS caddy reverse proxy blog this manual portfolio the portfolio site uptime kuma status · public caddy + https live 2026-09-21 blog · portfolio · status, all public TAILSCALE private · my machines only HOME LAB · PROXMOX primary node · optiplex 7060 primary node second node · optiplex 3070 second node third node · elitedesk 800 g3 hosts the backup server pbs · backup-svr vmid 301 unifi network gear vlan segmentation up next rev. 2026-09-29 · service view

DNS · monitoring · Tailscale run across the cluster

fig. 1: the homelab as a service diagram, sep 2026. architecture view: what talks to what, nothing that identifies the network.
  1. network foundation baseline + isp migration documented entry-01
  2. dns pi-hole, then an ha pair, off the pis onto proxmox, then the panel saga active entry-02 entry-03 entry-09 entry-11
  3. monitoring prometheus, grafana, blackbox on the dns stack documented entry-04
  4. remote access tailscale, no open ports active entry-05
  5. virtualization services off the workstation into a 3-node proxmox cluster active entry-06
  6. managed network mesh wifi to unifi, cut over live in flight entry-07
  7. public edge netcup vps hardened, caddy in front active entry-08
  8. backups proxmox backup server, restores actually tested active entry-10
  9. web presence portfolio and this blog on cloudflare pages active entry-12 entry-13

status words are honest by construction: they say only what the entries support. where the manual cannot prove more, the row reads documented.