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004 - Köfteist Köfte (Meatballist Meatball)

Köfteist Köfte is a backend developer from Turkey.

May 30, 2025

The Meatballist Meatball is a backend developer, with a background in System Administration. Köfteist has always loved free software from a young age and stays curious.

Hardware

  • Raspberry Pi 4: Home Assistant, Grafana, InfluxDB server and rack display management

  • Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: PiHole, DNS and VPN server. Both Pi 4 and Zero are both powered by PoE

  • TP-Link TL-SG108PE: A really cheap and easy to use PoE smart switch

  • Patch panel

  • A regular old normal 8 port TP-Link dumb switch

  • HP Elitedesk 800 G6 Mini i7 10700T, 64Gb Ram: Proxmox host

  • Outside of the rack: Synology DS920+

Software

  • Pi Hole

  • Unbound

  • Tailscale

  • Home Assistant

  • Proxmox

  • Crafty controller (for minecraft servers)

  • *arr stack

  • Jellyfin

  • Plex (migrating to Jellyfin atm)

  • Immich

  • Nextcloud

  • Gitea

  • Grafana

  • PostgresDB

  • InfluxDB

  • Nginx Proxy Manager

  • Random small projects I developed for my needs

What inspired you to build your homelab, and what’s its main purpose today?

I started my homelab with the Synology NAS I managed to get in an extremely cheap price. But it's server capabilities are extremely limited. For I while I subsidize it with a 4 GB Pi 4. After I bought the HP mini PC and a RAM upgrade for it. And it become my generic use environment. Current main use cases are: storage/backup, home assistant, media server, game server and dev environment. I also used to use a bigger network rack. It's size wasn't a problem in my old home, because it had a basement, but my current home doesn't so I needed something much smaller. So I decided to build one.

There is a video in my channel (in Turkish) explaining the build process with cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYlWt7387Lc

What’s one part of your setup (hardware or software) that you’re especially proud of — and why?

Currently the Pi panel in the Rack. I'm really new to 3D modelling and it probably my most successful model at the time :)

What are your next plans, experiments, or dream upgrades for your lab?

I'm planing to replace the Synology NAS with a DIY All-SSD NAS. Both due to recent issues with Synology and also wanting to move to a more open and on my control environment. My current plan is: buying a mini PC with PCI-e port, adding a SATA or SAS controller to it, modelling a drive panel with hotswap capability, probably by designing a pcb to passthrough power and sata ports. Then either sell or turn into a backup NAS the DS920+

CAT CAMEO 😃 

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