1U bare-metal server running Rocky Linux 9. Primary host for all self-hosted services including Grafana, Prometheus, Plex, and Docker containers.

20TB NAS in a RAID 10 configuration (two RAID 0 pairs mirrored) used for media storage and server backups.

10GbE fiber router handling all home network traffic with wired and wireless connectivity.

Full metrics and log pipeline monitoring the HPE server, home network, and reef aquarium. Dashboards built in Grafana OSS, log aggregation via Loki, and alerting via Prometheus Alertmanager.

Custom-built Prometheus exporter that scrapes live data from a Neptune Apex reef controller. Exposes tank parameters — temperature, pH, salinity, and more — as Prometheus metrics for Grafana dashboards.

Plex Media Server and Threadfin run on the HPE DL360 as Docker containers. Plex handles personal media streaming with the QNAP NAS as the storage backend. Threadfin provides an IPTV proxy for live channel management.

Cloud-hosted infrastructure including a droplet running dromero.dev and a managed MySQL database instance.

GitHub Pro for source control, code hosting, and CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions.

Claude CLI for development, automation scripting, and infrastructure work. GitHub Copilot for in-editor code assistance. Microsoft Copilot for documentation, drafting, and day-to-day productivity.