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3 October 2026 • Logical hardwired devices and VLAN memberships

RB5009UG+S+IN

Edge for home. Capable of 10Gbps via SFP+, ether 1 2.5GBe, ether 2-8 1GBe. Queue for each VLAN to manage a congested upstream. Router behind a blank.

CRS112-8P-4S-IN

8 port PoE++, powered by AC for power requirements, camera's, ZigBee, LR wireless, HaLow and a wireless AP that required advanced PoE+.

CRS106-1G-4P15

1 port PoE-in, 4 port PoE-out that's used for Wireless AP's and non-PoE NVR that's off the UPS system (4 feeds showing my chickens). VLAN Management supported on Mikrotik SwOS.

Cooling

Room is 3.92 square meters (1.4 x 2.8). Murphy bed 50/50 split, picture shows in upright position. 2.6kW of Air conditioning, externally vented & 2x Noctua NF-A15, expel hot rack air outside. Custom aircon duct to reach bedside, optionally open second door to cool living room. Circulation fan above exterior doorway.

Workstation GNU/Linux

Assembled April 2022, linux full fledged (1 Jan 24), cpu re-pasted 20 Feb 25.

• OS: MX Linux
• Desktop: Xfce
• PS: SilverStone ST1000-PT
• Motherboard: B450 AORUS M
• Fans: 1x NF-F12 120mm, 2x NF-A8 FLX 80mm, 2x NF-A6x25 60mm
• CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S duel fans push/pull
• CPU: x86_64-v3 (Zen 3) AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
• RAM: G.Skill Flare 32GB 4xF4-3200C14-8GFX CL14-14-14-34 1.35V
• Graphics: Palit GameRock OmniBlack RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
• NvMe: 2TB Team Group MP44L TEAM TM8FPK002T
• SSD: 1TB Crucial BX500 (Backup)
• HDD: 8tb Seagate Barracuda (ROMS)
• Case: TGC-43901 modded for extra intake fans

Supermicro SS

• 5018A-TN4
• Intel Atom C2750
• Hynix 8gb CL11 1600Mhz
• Fan replacement Noctua NF-A4x20
• Storage:
• LSI Card
• Boot 120gb
• Storage RAIDZ-1 5x2tb (synced to colocation)
• VM Mirror 2x240GB
• Proxmox CE
• Applications:
• AdGuard
• Apache, Redirect AdGuard
• HomeAssistant
• Observium
• SyncThing
• CIFS share
• Security Camera

Supermicro H13 A+

The server is a multipurpose self-hosted infrastructure platform providing email, CalDAV, WebDAV, web hosting, media services, backups, automation and game hosting. Traefik provides HTTPS reverse proxying for websites and applications running through WSL2, Docker and Portainer, with custom PowerShell automation managing SSL renewal, backups, service fallbacks and other administrative tasks.

• AS-1015A-MT
• AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
• G.SKILL Flare X5 96GB CL40 5200Mhz (F5-5600J4040D48GX2-FX5)
• WD_Black 1TB (SN850X)
• WD Red Plus 6TB (WD60EFPX)
• WS Datacentre 2022
• Colo @ Equinix ME1; Tier III Datacentre
• 10G Dedicated Fibre and L2 multi-homed, Mikrotik CHR Routing
• Hardware personally owned; the colocation costs are treated as a business expense

PowerShield Centurion RT1000 1000VA/900w

True/online double conversion. Typical use 10-50%, +30-50% with air con.

Power P = 12V × 27A = 324Wh

Current I = $\genfrac{}{}{0.1ex}{}{324}{\mathrm{230V}}$ ≈ 1.41A

Notes: 4 GPO mains with with one in use for UPS, 3 for systems not on UPS (Heater, Aircon, Electric Blank), UPS Feeds in use; 2x C13, 3x GPO, 8 port GPO Serveredge SEDG-8P-GPO-C14 behind rack, 8 port GPO below table, 14 GPO to Audio Visual

Gentrax GT2000 PRO

2Kw, supports all systems. 10L unleaded = 17-33 hours

Solar

5Kw inverter Primo 5.0-1. 5.7Kw of panels. Microgrid planned