Built My First Homelab
I am a 37 year old cyber security student and I am working on building a homelab to practice my networking and documentation skills. Here’s what I came up this past year.
Most everything is stuff we had and I just started connecting it. The only difference was my husband had an old hp laptop with a corrupted start up that I wiped and put mint Linux and Casa Os. It’s 10 years old, but she’s chugging along.
Any comments or suggestions are welcome. I am hoping to continue to build onto it. Especially any info on building a music library and sharing it with both Macs and Androids.
My spending on this project so far has been:
Raspberry Pi 6 (180$) - I got a fun chassis when I initially built it for a school project
Ethernet switch - it was about (40$)- my in-laws gave it to me for my birthday
Shelving unit-(35$)on Amazon
~~~~post update~~~~~
I am so thankful for all the feedback and suggestions!!! So I have had a ton of questions asking if I had a software that I am using for the map... no, it's AI generated and it is incorrect. I updated it, and at the suggestion of others I am going to start learning Drawio. I am putting the updated map here for the meantime.