Adventures In Cybersecurity

This is the first post about my current full homelab setup Heres a picture of the server rack in its "Server room" (AKA my second closet) Here are the machines, and their specs, from the top of the rack down: Creality CR-10: My biggest 3d printer. Modified with adjustable tension on the X and Y axis. Dell R710: 2x Xeon X5650, 16gb ECC DDR3, 1x 4tb drive Use: Running ProxMox with Plex, PiHole and several flavors of linux. Dell R715: 2x 12 core Opterons, 48gb ECC DDR3, 1x 120gb boot SSD, 2x 1tb drives Use: Proxmox with Windows Server VMs and FreeBSD Cisco Catalyst 2950 series switch: Connects "Server Room" to my apartment's router. Dell 2161DS-2 KVM: I love this thing. before I got it, I had to manually shuffle cables between servers, now I can switch between servers with 3 buttons. I do not have the KVM-Over-Ip functionality at the moment due to its Java webapp being completely out of date. Generic Ebay PDU: While not the best, it is substa

So I've been gradually accumulating hardware for my homelab setup. The newest addition is an IBM X3550 m2, with a pair of quadcore xeons. Im planning to turn it into a bit of an overpowered NAS, and use my VPN provider's dedicated IP service to be able to interact with it outside of my apartment. Today, I received the system, test booted it, and upgraded the RAM to 32gb.