Personal NAS & Homelab

What I built

• A personal NAS + homelab used as a production-grade self-hosting environment and an infrastructure playground.
• Runs on Proxmox with Ubuntu Server virtual machines hosting 20+ containerized services.

Key components

• Nginx Proxy Manager for reverse proxying and TLS routing.
• AdGuard for network-level DNS control.
• PostgreSQL as a shared database backend across multiple services.

Why it matters

• Hands-on practice with real storage, networking, and service operations (the stuff you only learn by running it).
• Safe place to test architecture changes and operational practices before using them elsewhere.

Decisions & tradeoffs

• Prefer shared platform services (like PostgreSQL) where it makes sense to reduce duplication.
• Kept the stack modular so services can be swapped without rebuilding the whole environment.

Flow

Internet
│
└─ Nginx Proxy Manager
   │
   ├─ App containers (20+)
   └─ Shared services (PostgreSQL, DNS)