Author: Umi4Life(zekamashi@umi4.life)

The plan

I’ve been wanting to host my own bare-metal server for a while. It all started from my PC running out of storage and planning to build a NAS, along the way during planning I just had a random thought “hey, why not turn it into a full scale home server to host all my own microservices”.

  flowchart TD

    %% Entry
    A[Internet] --> B[Tunneling]
    B --> C[Reverse Proxy]

    %% Core
    subgraph Homelab
        C --> D[Microservices]
        D --> E[Databases]
        F[Network Storage / NAS] --> D
        F --> E
        G[Monitoring / Observibility]
    end

    %% Observability
    G --> C
    G --> D
    G --> E

With recent news of AWS and Cloudflare outages, I think this is something more people should get into as well.

Published on 2026-04-04 at UmiLife's Blog, last modified on 2026-04-04