My Home Server Setup: Part 1/N
I’ll be blogging my journey of setting an Home server.
In this Blog I’ll share my nodes setup.
I’ve bought Rpi for running light weight low cost (15W power 🎃 running 24/7 comes to less than 60 rupees)
Bought from Thingbits.in , packaging was quite reliable and parts were authentic and in good condition. I’d recommend it in India.
SD card came with raspbian OS installed. I wanted only terminal-based OS so I removed GUI utilities using the below commands, this will ensure future software updates won’t pull any GUI crap which I don’t need.
sudo apt-get remove --purge x11-common
sudo apt purge -y $(dpkg --list |grep '^rc' |awk '{print $2}')
sudo apt-get autoremoveI’m not going ahead with the ubuntu server currently because since I’m feeling lazy 😆 .. Well, actually that’s not reason, but actual reason I feel is raspbian OS is well supported for pi and there are a lot of stuff online and community present to help if there is an issue.
For Cloud Providers, I had very lean requirements
- Low Latency (Datacenter as close to Mumbai )
- Cheapest (With some free credits as toppings)
Linode and DO and vultr seems to have regions in APAC so I’m cool with it
And also they provide 2 months worth of credits (or 100$ whichever burns out earlier)
I’ve choose Linode as its DC is in Mumbai using terraform .
so now I have a Rpi, a cloud instance in mumbai and one that I didn’t mentioned was present from 6months from credits I got from alibaba cloud 😅
so total 3 nodes.. Hurray!
First thing I did was setup tailscale on them, its fantastic mesh overlay network backed by wireguard which is modern alternative of openvpn.
And I could setup a exit node and use it to tunnel all my traffic through that node.
I’m planning to make goku an exit node in future. but will see…
All my infra scripts / ansible and setup is in DragonBallWorld github repo, do have a look and ⭐️ it if you like it. Open for suggestions and ammendments.
