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The homelab

RoleSide project
StatusOnline 24/7
Year2025
StackLinux · Docker · Tailscale

Two retired PCs, reborn as a private cloud that never sleeps. It's online 24/7 and reachable from anywhere — so I can experiment, deploy and ship from wherever I am. Even from my phone.

Online 24/7$ ssh homelabwelcome back, atharv$ docker compose up -d✓ all services up✓from my phone,from anywheretwo old PCs → a cloud that never sleeps

The problem

Cloud GPUs get expensive fast, and work shouldn't depend on which desk you're sitting at. I wanted infrastructure I fully understand, fully control, and can reach from anywhere.

What I built

Rebuilt two old PCs into Linux servers running Docker, linked into a private network over Tailscale so they're reachable from anywhere — and from nowhere else. They host my models, agents and services around the clock. From my laptop or straight from my phone, I can SSH in, spin up an experiment, deploy a service or check on a running job.

Where it stands

Always on, always reachable. My workstation now fits in my pocket — give me a phone and a signal, and the work gets done.