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# How to build your own Datacenter..
- URL: https://blog.notafbihoneypot.com/becoming-my-own-datacenter/
- Published: 2026-01-02T18:21:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-13T19:02:58.000Z
- Author: frank skyline
- Tags: privacy

This will be my journey to self-hosting everything so that i can become as sovereign as possible.

# WHY 

i don't like data collection and i'd rather not be apart of a data breach if i can. Companies can also abandon, change or sell off to a far worse company. FOSS software isn't immune to this, but it has one key advantage! it can be forked. 

I, have a good history of hosting various stuff, but i never went full in.

# THE STACK

Right now i am running (ill updat as i go) all my software locally or on my servers, besideds email.

# **Hardware stack**

server inferstruture:

1. 3 proxmox cluster nodes in high avability mode(no ceph) but using zfs
2. Proxmox on a teramaster 2 bay nas in a zfs raid using proxmox backup server. with a unifi nas as a second backup target, no offsite backup, yet.
3. UDM PRO, (i know it's not open source, but they allow me to host the contoroller locally, and i want a single glass panel, i also have used openwrt and pfsense, they offer nothing to my intrest.)
4. unifi MAX PRO 16 port PoE ++ switch  
5.unifi 10gb aggergation switch.

## **sofware stack (still building)**

1. Proxmox as my hypervisor
2. [my dashboard](https://heimdall.site/?ref=blog.notafbihoneypot.com)
3. [my server stats](https://pulserelay.pro/?ref=blog.notafbihoneypot.com)
4. [My DNS](https://pi-hole.net/?ref=blog.notafbihoneypot.com) \- (i tested techtinium dns and its cool and all, but i did not care for it.)
5. [MY nuts](https://networkupstools.org/?ref=blog.notafbihoneypot.com)
6. [for warrenties](https://github.com/sassanix/warracker?ref=blog.notafbihoneypot.com)
7. [password manager](https://keepassxc.org/?ref=blog.notafbihoneypot.com)
8. [notes](https://joplinapp.org/?ref=blog.notafbihoneypot.com)  
(building still.........)

{jan-2-2026}

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# Problems in the datacenter

01/13/2026

## UPDATE-—IT'S ALWAYS DNS

So, here is an update to my uhohs, i made. I messed up my DNS server and took down my whole network. This is why you need a good 3-2-1 backup solution and internal documentation. You might ask, how can i check my internal docs if everything is offline? Besides having high availability, I would suggest either a notebook or a separate knowledge base for this specific situation and make sure you have alerts and notifications.

## AN AGENT BROKE MY CLUSTER AND AI HELPED FIX IT.

So recently My proxmox cluster broke, an i could not find out the reason for the life of me. i kept getting a SSL validation error. So i go to every site and forum on the planet just to figure out what the issue was.

The error i kept getting was Connection error 596: error:0A000086:SSL routines::certificate verify failed. Every blog said it could be a TIME sync issue or a something with a proxmox daemon/cert problem. 

AI DID GOOD (For once). So, i took my logs and used a local AI bot and feed it my logs and problem, one solution it told me that bezel agent could be a issue.....I FORGOT THAT i installed bezel a while back, but i destroyed it, i just didn't clean up the agents in the other pve host. So i went to the PVE host that was giving me a issue and removed and cleaned up the dead agent, BOOM, fixed. it was so simple.

...................To be continued