Matthias Klein

YouTube is canceling accounts in other countries in waves at the moment. My account in Vietnam (I live in Germany) will also be canceled in mid-January 2025. I would have to add a Vietnamese credit card, which would be a bit much work for me.

I also use Mailcow with three domains (one business). No problems with it from day one. Updates run regularly and smoothly like clockwork. I am happy to recommend it to others.

Yes, you’re right. But to be honest, it only took me four weeks of perseverance and a few mails to the administrators of spam lists and I had no more problems with receiving and sending mail.

If you set up your mail server correctly and also enter a postmaster address, you will be informed of any problem, no matter how small, and can address it promptly.

I was surprised at how quickly and, above all, helpfully the staff at the spam list providers respond when you write to them politely and, if necessary, ask for more background information and best practices.

It was definitely worth it for me and I would do the work and build up the knowledge again at any time. As a result, you have maximum freedom in configuration and extensive options for customizing your own workflow in dealing with emails.

Thanks a lot, that’s how I like it. 👍🏼

I don’t know what you are talking about. 😇😂

You’re very welcome! I’ve provided a detailed overview of my entire setup on my blog, and following your request, I’ve updated it to reflect the latest changes.

You can check out the post here: https://blog.klein.ruhr/my-homelab/

Below, a picture of my small rack, which is located in my home office. Due to the selected components, it is virtually silent and still bobs along at only 26 - 28° C.

The hardware is divided into two Proxmox clusters. The first consists of the three Lenovo M920qs shown here and is home to my publicly accessible services and VMs, the second consists of the two Beelink EQ12s and is responsible for the internal services or those accessible via VPN.

Not the greatest or best Homelab, but for me, it fulfils all my needs and at the same time keeps the electricity costs down to an unimaginable level.

I host the following services on the public Internet:

• Ghost CMS
• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• PeerTube
• Lemmy
• Rallly
• Nextcloud with Collabora Office
• Rustdesk
• Umami
• Uptime Kuma
• Vaultwarden
• Whoogle
• Minecraft Server (for my son)

Internally, I also provide the following services:

• AdGuard Home (redundant)
• FreshRSS
• Homepage (Dashboard)
• Jellyfin
• the Arr’s
• Linkwarden
• WireGuard
• Zoraxy
• ChangeDetection
• Forgejo
• MeTube/AnonymousOverflow/ProxiTok/RedLib/SafeTwitch/LibMedium
• Grafana/InfluxDB/Prometheus
• Homebox
• IT tools
• Mealie
• MiniQR
• Speedtest-Tracker
• Wallos
• Web-Check

MySpeed gives you the choice to also choose LibreSpeed.

Speedtest-Tracker or MySpeed are self-hosted solutions that can be extensively configured to send notifications when thresholds are exceeded or not reached.

Exactly my setup. 2x EQ12 with 32 GB RAM and a standalone network for my Proxmox Cluster. Nice little things.