The Setup Today we are going to set up Keycloak with oauth2-proxy and Nginx so that all of our services are protected by a FIDO security key, except for those that we choose to leave public. We are going to be using Docker containers and creating a new virtual machine called hs-auth-01 to run Keycloak […]

What is a Progressive Web App? A Progressive Web App is “a type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly. It is intended to work on any platform with a standards-compliant browser, including desktop and mobile devices.” – Wikipedia   So What Does This Mean for Eanix? […]

Desktops For The Family Our most powerful home server option consists of hardware that is capable of powering everyone in a 4 person family with 16 cores 32gb of RAM and a portion of 4 RTX 4090 GPUs, leaving room for the integrated 80TB NAS to house your entire family’s backups / media plus your […]

Hardware Setup The hardware of the Eanix Home Server consists of a varying number of SATA3 ports. Depending on which home server option you go with, the number of drives change and will eventually max out the number of ports. There is no hardware raid for the SATA drives. Some versions of the home server […]

The Fractal Define 7 XL is the unofficial-official case of the Eanix Home Servers. This case has adamant cooling, loads of hard drive bays (18+) to hold all of the disks for the built in Network Attached Storage, as well as room for more than one GPU. The drive bays are just as easy to […]

Introduction A lot has changed over the years since the Bluray’s release. The media industry has shifted from a mostly program-based model to a self-service streaming model. With it exists a community that many would consider underground, but those that do it have excellent reason to do so. Families with children are often buying them […]

Eanix hardware moves beyond traditional home server setups that typically use small computers such as the Raspberry Pi 4. These devices are great, but their capabilities are severely limited due to performance. Eanix uses consumer gaming/workstation hardware that has advanced over the years into a capable server alternative for the home.  The purpose of the […]

Here is a survey showcasing what is popular in the home server realm. So far, we fit in nicely! It appears that most of those that use a home server are developers. The top services also line up well with our estimations. It also indicates that there is demand in a family setting. Hopefully these […]

Social media today, where this major conglomerate has millions of messages a day running on their servers, is the opposite of the purpose of the home server. Big Data as they call it is the entire purpose of these companies. They can process information, performing studies on their userbase, and with some hell-bent on world […]

Each Home Server  will, at the hardware level, be running a Hypervisor. I have had great success using ESXi’s free option that limits a processor count to 8. I do not  plan on using ESXi for the Home Server, and instead I plan to use alternate open source options that get baked into a distro. […]