utsav@homelab:~$
cd ~/homelab
HOME SERVER
> U4 · RAM, THE HOMELAB THAT POWERS EVERYTHING ELSE
utsav@homelab:~/homelab$ cat README.md
A Raspberry Pi 4 that first came alive as a university side project years ago, then sat dormant
for a while. In June 2026 I revived it with a ground up rebuild: a fresh install, a proper NAS,
a full Docker media stack, network wide DNS filtering, a clean reverse proxy, and a monitoring
setup that actually tells me when something breaks instead of me finding out the hard way. It now
quietly hosts the Nepal POS in production too.
utsav@homelab:~/homelab$ ./features --list
▸ OpenMediaVault NAS, network shares for the family
▸ Full Docker media stack, Jellyfin plus the supporting arr apps
▸ Pi-hole v6, 2.4M+ domains filtered for every device
▸ Caddy reverse proxy, clean .home domains with no port numbers
▸ Telegram monitoring, 14 scripts across two bots
▸ Watchtower automatic Docker updates every night
▸ Zero ports exposed to the internet, everything over Tailscale
utsav@homelab:~/homelab$ docker inspect homeserver --format stack
HARDWARERaspberry Pi 4, 8GB, external USB storage
OSRaspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit, OpenMediaVault 8.1.1
MEDIAJellyfin, qBittorrent, Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Bazarr, Jellyseerr
NETWORKPi-hole v6, Caddy, Tailscale mesh VPN
MONITORINGTwo Telegram bots, alerts plus nightly and weekly reports
utsav@homelab:~/homelab$ git log --reverse --milestones
EARLIER ERAFirst build during university, OpenMediaVault 4, early Jellyfin and media automation, then left mostly dormant
2026-06-01Full rebuild begins. Fresh OS, OpenMediaVault 8, new NAS storage and network shares
2026-06-04Full Docker media stack deployed, hardlink and drive reliability issues solved properly
2026-06-10Pi-hole v6 deployed in Docker, set as global DNS across the whole Tailscale network
2026-06-12Caddy reverse proxy live, every service on a clean .home domain, unified dashboard added
2026-06-14Full monitoring suite built, 14 scripts across two Telegram bots for alerts and reports
2026-06-16Watchtower automatic updates added, plus a second independent watchdog device (see next component)
2026-07-03Promoted to production, now hosts the Nepal Grocery POS over HTTPS for the shop in Kathmandu
utsav@homelab:~/homelab$