Welcome tomy digital home.

A collection of self-hosted services, experiments, and infrastructure that power my everyday life.

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Why thisexists.

We were paying ₱400 a month just to keep our photos on Google and iCloud. Every year the storage filled up and the price went up.

That is ₱4,800 a year to rent space for our own family pictures. Photos going back to 2013.

So I built a machine at home to hold them instead. Everything on this page replaces something we used to pay for monthly.

4 TB

Storage

13

Years of photos

24/7

Always on

₱5,200

Saved so far

How it fitstogether.

Traffic comes in from the left and ends at the services the family actually opens.

  • Internet

    Nothing open to the outside

    • Tailscale

      A private tunnel in, so no ports have to be open

      • TP-Link Wi-Fi 6

        The home router everything connects to

        • AdGuard DNS

          Every lookup passes here first, ads get dropped

          • TrueNAS

            One machine, on 24/7, running everything below

            • Immich

              Photos and videos, the one thing we back up

              • Backblaze B2

                Encrypted copy in the cloud

              • External HDD

                A copy we can hold, kept unplugged

            • Jellyfin

              Movies and shows for the TVs

            • Encyclomejia

              Scanned IDs, receipts, and records

            • Minecraft

              Rix Marcus's world

What itactually runs.

Everything the family used to pay for monthly, grouped by what it's for.

Photos & Shows

The two things the family uses every day, and the two we paid the most for. Storage that kept filling up, and subscriptions that kept going up.

Immich

Google Photos and iCloud, minus the ₱400 a month.

Jellyfin

Movie night on every TV, no subscription.

Staying Protected

Running things yourself means nobody else is watching them for you. These keep ads out of the house and let me in from anywhere, without opening a single port.

AdGuard Home

We are just sick of ads.

Tailscale

How I reach everything without opening the house.

No web app

Files & Documents

The boring half, and the reason the rest can exist. One place for the important things, and one place to find them again.

TrueNAS

One box at home that holds everything.

Encyclomejia

Where our 2x2 IDs and papers actually live.

Just for Fun

Not everything has to save money. Some of it is just nice.

Minecraft Server

Rix Marcus's favorite game, always online.

No web app

One machine,everything on it.

One machine runs all eight services. It stays on 24/7, survives brownouts on its own, and I can reach all of it from anywhere through Tailscale.

Processor

Intel i3-8100

Enough to run all eight services at once.

Storage

4 TB Seagate NAS

Built for drives that never get to rest.

Boot drive

128 GB SSD

Keeps the system off the storage drive.

Power

Brownout-capable

Brownouts happen here. When the power cuts, the server rides it out and turns itself back on the moment electricity returns, so nobody has to be home to press anything.

Network

TP-Link Wi-Fi 6

An ordinary router. AdGuard Home does the interesting part.

How backupswork.

A simple 1-2-3 backup plan keeps everything, especially the family's photos, safe in more than one place.

Live

The NAS

Every photo and file starts on the homelab's storage.

Off-site

Backblaze B2

An encrypted copy in the cloud, updated on its own.

3

Offline

External drive

A copy we keep unplugged, in case the rest goes wrong.