About

Jeff Whiteside is a veteran network engineer with nearly three decades of technical experience across a wide variety of technologies.

He has an advanced background in network engineering and architecture, with technical specialties involving routing, switching, wireless, real time communications and high demand network transit.

Also, he has at least two decades of experience in general server hardware administration, application management, service delivery and systems administration.

Jeff has been homelabbing since the early days of the internet.  His first public IP address, on an 64K ISDN modem, was used to host rudimentary HTML, hand coded web pages and file transfer services.  Before the advent of the internet, he hosted BBS’s (bulletin board systems) using modems and phone lines!

That history evolved into Phracking (phone hacking) which ultimately sparked a life long career in technology, network service delivery and network based communications.

If you would like to contact Jeff, please use the contact page.

My Current Home Lab!

This is my current major home lab servers, equipment and gear!

Dedicated Server Hosted In Hillsboro, Oregon:

  • Intel Xeon-E 2386G 6 core/12 thread
  • 64GB RAM
  • Dual 512GB NVMe
  • Dual 6TB HDD
  • Gigabit Network
  • Operating System:  Proxmox PVE v7
  • Carved into multiple virtual machines for various purposes

Dedicated Server Hosted In Fairbanks, Alaska:

  • AMD 5950X 16 core/32 thread
  • 128GB RAM
  • Dual 512GB NVMe
  • Dual 8TB HDD
  • 512GB SSD
  • 256GB SSD
  • 2.5gbps Network / 24mbit Internet
  • Operating System:  Proxmox PVE v7
  • Carved into multiple virtual machines for various purposes

Network Attached Storage In Fairbanks, Alaska:

  • AMD 3700X 8 core/16 thread
  • 16GB RAM
  • (6) 16TB HDD
  • (6) 8TB HDD
  • 1TB NVMe
  • 2.5gbps Network
  • Operating System:  Unraid

Miscellaneous Homelab Gear:

  • Physical Network:  Ubiquiti
  • Wireless Network:  Ubiquiti
  • Multiple Raspberry Pi’s
  • Multiple sensors for home automation (Z-Wave, Zigbee, WiFi)
  • DIY sensors using ESP32 platform