{"id":7,"date":"2026-06-20T01:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T01:25:55","slug":"welcome-to-the-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Home Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">     I\u2019ve been eyeing the mini server racks a lot lately and the creative juices have been flowing. I\u2019m on a tight budget so I can\u2019t go out and purchase all the gear for it like some of the YouTubers do and drop $2k. I can however cut some 3\/4\u201d plywood, paint it, install some 4U rack rails and a couple of metal shelves. Add a couple of switches, a port patch panel, and a Dell OptiPlex running ProxMox. Make the proper connections and I have a home lab in a mini server rack running on my home network.<br>   <br>     It doesn\u2019t take much just get creative, if I had a larger 3D printer I would have printed it. However I had spare supplies from previous projects laying around and decided to utilize those to save time and money. Happy building . <br><br>#swampcomms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been eyeing the mini server racks a lot lately and the creative juices have been flowing. I\u2019m on a tight budget so I can\u2019t go out and purchase all the gear for it like some of the YouTubers do and drop $2k. I can however cut some 3\/4\u201d plywood, paint it, install some 4U [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11,"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swampcomms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}