this is not
a homelab

The domain even says so.

3

NATs deep

10

Services running

40 TB

Storage available

~1 TB

Actually used

The setup

Synology RS818+

Yes, I need it and its 40tbs of storage. Ignore the fact im only using 1tb.

Raspberry Pi 4 2GB (Home Assistant)

Automating lights I could just flip manually.

Sky Broadband ISP Modem

It... works?

Google Nest Wifi (4 Units)

Subpar access points that create a second nat!

HP Elitebook 840 G5

A laptop pretending to be a prod server, with Fedora Server.

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 4)

A laptop posing as a dev server

Docker

Everything lives in a container. I have commitment issues.

TP Link Deco BE28

My Quest 2 runs faster with this for some reason

Polycom SoundPoint IP 355

A desk phone. In 2026. Don't ask.

Things I run

Home Assistant

Smart home. Mostly.

Jellyfin

Legally acquired media streaming.

Navidrome

Because Spotify wasn't enough.

Synology Drive

My own cloud. Take that, Google.

Tailscale

VPN that sometimes just works.

Cloudflare Tunnels

Port forwarding is hard on 2 nats, let alone 3.

Authelia

SSO so I can forget one password instead of many.

Forgejo

Because GitLab wasn't enough.

Uptime Kuma

I track uptime kuma inside uptime kuma so I'll know when uptime kuma breaks.

Why this is not a homelab

Meanwhile over at notoverkill.com & barelyahomelab.xyz

notahomelab notoverkill barelyahomelab
Router ISP modem UniFi Dream Machine Pro TP-Link Decos
Switch TP-Link 8 port something USW 24 PoE none
NAS Synology RS818+ yes 2TB RAID 1
Server HP Elitebook 840 G5 Fedora Server 2× Raspberry Pi 5
Containers yes 50 a few
NATs 3 1 (boring) 1
Home Assistant yes yes yes
Auth yes yes better uptime than GitHub

See? Totally normal.
A few nats and a slightly large amount of storage doesn't make it a homelab.

Even my not a homelab is in a webring

Coming soon, when I feel like it.

okay fine.

it's a homelab.

are you happy now?