This isn't a shelf of blinking boxes. It's dual Dell PowerEdge R630s, an R720xd, a Cisco Catalyst core, and a UniFi Dream Machine Pro — patch-panelled in green, vented out the window, and managed down to the firmware.
Tap any unit to inspect it. The order follows the real photo — green blanking panels up top, compute in the middle, switching and patching below, network core at the base.
Most of the rack stays off on purpose — Florida power and AC bills are real. What matters is kept current: BIOS, iDRAC, switch firmware, and backups, all on a schedule.
Windows Server 2025 host for Blue Iris, game servers, local AI, and the house website. The one that actually earns its rack space.
A second PowerEdge R630 (Server2) and the bigger R720xd storage chassis sit below it in the rack — patched, labelled, and brought up when they're needed.
QTS NAS living in the office, not the server room, on its own UPS with a USB data cable. Home to the media library and Mason's own Plex server.
Cooling & power discipline: rear exhaust fans vent straight out the window, the rack stays locked, and idle servers stay off. In Florida, a homelab you run 24/7 without thinking is just a second AC bill.
UniFi at the edge, Cisco in the middle, and AdGuard Home quietly killing ads and trackers for the whole house before they ever load.
Filter by where a service lives. Nothing here is decorative — every one of these is used by the house, Mason, or Pyro.
Camera system for the Cove-covered house — motion, doors, windows, and smoke all watched from the main server.
Ollama with the custom mason-qwen model (32K context) running on CPU, served to the tablet through Open WebUI. Never exposed to the internet.
The house site on the R630 over HTTPS with a Let's Encrypt cert — the one Pyro is now taking over and rebuilding in his own style.
Java and Bedrock servers run as AlwaysUp services so they survive reboots and come back on their own.
Movies and shows served from the QNAP in the office — Mason's own Plex, after the library moved off the R630.
WireGuard on the UDM gets Mason home from anywhere; AdGuard Home cleans up DNS for every device once he's there.
Tap any photo to see it full-size — the open rack in daylight, the patch field up close, and the cabinet doing its red-lit Umbrella impression at night.
Every cable in that green patch field was run by Mason — and the patch panel literally has PYROSERVER 1–2 labelled into it. This datacenter isn't a solo hobby hoarded in a spare room; it's house infrastructure for both of them.
Pyro — Mason's fiancé — is now in charge of the website that runs on this rack, rebuilding it with what he's learning in coding school. Mason keeps the iron alive; Pyro makes it look good.