The physical build — two Dell enterprise servers, a double-NAT home network, and TrueNAS ZFS storage shared over NFS and iSCSI to every service.
Two Dell enterprise servers running a full self-hosted stack — Proxmox hypervisor, TrueNAS ZFS storage, iSCSI block devices, Tailscale mesh VPN, Nginx Proxy Manager, Nextcloud, and an automated media server.
The concepts every other homelab page builds on — hypervisors, VMs vs LXC containers, ZFS storage, subnets and NAT, and iSCSI block devices. Read this first.