SELF-HOSTED HOME DATACENTRE PLAIN-ENGLISH VIEW

Chitek Media

A private, self-hosted home cloud running family media, classroom tools, smart-home automation, and local AI across a cluster of dedicated machines.

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Showing everyday, jargon-free descriptions of what each service does and why it exists. Showing stack architecture, container hosts, reverse-proxy routing, and protocols.

Explore Services View Hardware & Topology

Physical Servers

Dedicated nodes on LAN

Running Services

116

Containers, VMs & stacks

Compute & Memory

56cores

183 GB system RAM + RTX 5060 Ti

Raw Storage Pool

22.9TB

NVMe flash + high-capacity HDDs

01 // HARDWARE & TOPOLOGY

The Network

Seven physical machines split the workload so media streaming, home automation, classroom tools, and GPU AI never compete for resources.

TRAFFIC ROUTING & ZERO-TRUST ACCESS

How traffic reaches the lab

Selected websites open safely from anywhere on the web, while private family and admin tools stay locked behind an encrypted private tunnel. Public HTTPS ingresses through a hardened Caddy reverse proxy on Dore; private services never expose public ports and resolve over Tailscale + local Pi-hole DNS.

PUBLIC WEB

Internet Visitors

Friends, family & classroom visitors opening public web links over HTTPS. External HTTPS requests on 443 to public subdomains.

PRIVATE MESH

Trusted Devices & LAN

Authorized laptops, phones & classroom stations using Tailscale from home or away. Authenticated WireGuard peers via Tailscale + local VLAN clients.

INGRESS EDGE

Caddy Edge Proxy

Automatic security certificates and safe routing only to approved public apps. Automatic TLS termination, reverse proxy & security headers on Dore.

OVERLAY + DNS

Tailscale & RPi 4 DNS

Direct private access to internal tools, plus Raspberry Pi 4 DNS & uptime checks. Point-to-point WireGuard mesh + split-horizon Pi-hole DNS & Uptime Kuma.

HOMELAB FLEET

7-Node Server Cluster

Workloads isolated across specialized hosts:

Dore Automation & dev
Echo Web & family
Chitek Media & *arr
Tobin Proxmox & Home Assistant
Gem Proxmox node
Xbox RTX 5060 Ti AI
RPi 4 DNS & monitoring

02 // SERVICE DIRECTORY

What runs here

Every service in the lab — filter by category or machine, search by keyword, or flip between Simple and Technical descriptions.

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03 // CLASSROOM & CURRICULUM

Learning & School

Part of the lab exists so a Grade 6 classroom runs more smoothly — keeping student data private on self-owned hardware.

PRIVACY & SAFETY CONTRACT

Classroom Ground Rules

04 // LOCAL AUTOMATION

Smart Home

Home Assistant is the brain of the house — talking to lights, sensors, the garage, the garden, and the network, even if the internet goes down.

How the house helps out

Rooms, zones & sensors

CONNECTED PROTOCOLS & DEVICES