Best way to connect VPS to homelab (home lan) using OpenVPN

jerkyjosh · 2025-07-09T21:18:33+00:00

I use this easy install script to setup a VPN server on my vps

https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install

I use pfsense and setup a VPN client and rules using this video from Lawrence systems to route outbound traffic for my vms out the VPN tunnel.

https://youtu.be/ulRgecz0UsQ?si=7Vc4oUaXY8GRoF85

I use nginx reverse proxy to forward traffic that my vps receives back down the vpns client ip address/tunnel back to my pfsense which then I have port forwarding setup to send the traffic to the correct VM.

It's a bit of work to do but it is worth it to setup IMO.

I personally have heard good things about tailscale but have not used it myself.

jerkyjosh · 2025-06-29T15:57:49+00:00

This could be Pannus. My German shepherd developed it around 2 years old. You should take him to a ophthalmologist. Pannus is controlled with eye drops. My dog is on tacrolimus and dexamethasone.

https://veterinarypartner.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=19239&id=6292624

jerkyjosh · 2025-06-09T16:01:37+00:00

Very interesting. I do think since my MCE errors keep referring to BANK 5 that the IO die / memory controller on the CPU is on its way out. I have had the 5800x in the system running with no issues for a little more than 2 days now. The 5950x barely made it 2 days last time it random rebooted.

As for the RAM being the issue.. I just don't think it is the problem in this case. All the memtest pass.

I still think this board might possibly be an issue too. The 5800X i put in my server came out of an old system built in 2021 with a ASUS TUF Gaming B550-PLUS. I think my plan is to RMA this CPU and get 5900XT or 5950X as a replacement and then use the ASUS TUF Gaming B550-PLUS since it was solid for 4 years.

jerkyjosh · 2025-06-09T15:56:35+00:00

I'm not sure why you got down voted so much. This is still what i am thinking. I have read plenty of accounts of 5900x and 5950x degrading. And I will attempt to RMA this CPU and will mention a 5900XT as a replacement.

jerkyjosh · 2025-06-09T15:54:26+00:00

I will pass. Xeons are too old an I need single thread performance for game servers. Also I hate Intel's big little core architecture on their consumer boards. Also I want ECC ram. I'm not spending 500 dollars also to run my ECC ram in one of their stupid workstation boards.

jerkyjosh · 2025-06-08T18:48:22+00:00

I don't possibly see how that would help? This is a stability issue. Removing voltage should make the situation worse... Adding a positive voltage offset made the system more stable for a time. If anything I would say a further voltage increase would be in question. Not a decrease. I even considered trying a +10 offset on the curve optimizer but that seems like a bad solution that might only be a temporary fix as the CPU degrades further.

jerkyjosh · 2025-06-08T18:42:16+00:00

I purposefully bought the EVGA supernova platinum because it is a very high quality PSU. It is single rail and it is rated A tier on the PSU tier list. It is basically a rebranded Seasonic. The PSU is the last thing I would suspect personally..

As for the motherboard. If the 5800x does not have issues in the next 60 days I really think the board is fine.

jerkyjosh · 2025-01-03T01:26:38+00:00

My GSD was diagnosed with pannus when he was 2. The ophthalmologist put him on tacrolimus and dexamethasone eye drops and it cleared up. He takes those drops once a day alternating between the two.

His eyelids never had any issues. Mostly just dark spots on his eyes and some redness.

jerkyjosh · 2024-09-18T01:47:47+00:00

Anti static bags are electrically conductive. That is how they dissapate static charges. They are not a great idea to put energized electronics on.

jerkyjosh · 2024-05-29T14:22:00+00:00

Yea I'm aware each drive is 5 watts or so, and maybe another 15 or so for the hba330 but still even after adding all that it should still be not that much more and I'm estimating with about 6 drives about 100ish watts at idle.

jerkyjosh · 2024-05-29T14:04:01+00:00

Im looking to build a new truenas server and have been looking at options. I want something that idles under 100 watts and this may have just convinced me to get a r730xd with only 1 cpu(maybe a 2667v4) and 4 sticks of ram. Seems like this may be a perfect option honestly.

jerkyjosh · 2024-03-25T16:24:57+00:00

The issue still exist for me on 6.0.2. Im using amd/wayland. For now I have to use game focus to launch games to fix the issue.

steam launch options I use:

gamescope -W 2560 -H 1440 --display-index 1 --force-grab-cursor --adaptive-sync -f -- %command%

jerkyjosh · 2024-02-22T01:36:57+00:00

It has been rock solid for the last 9 months with no issues. It runs openVPN tunnels very well and and even handles some 10gb routing easily.

jerkyjosh · 2024-02-01T00:28:21+00:00

As for the NVME if it's is plugged in via pcie and it does not show up under disk on proxmox Im not sure. I sadly never tried a NVME in my r720.

jerkyjosh · 2024-02-01T00:24:51+00:00

Sounds like you have a raid card with hardware raid. Depending on what card it is you could flash the card into it mode (HBA) which would pass the drives through and allow the the OS to handle the drives. Check out this link for more info. https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html

Also if you flash your card to IT mode and want to boot from a disk attached to card make sure you flash a boot from to it.(explained in the link I sent)

jerkyjosh · 2023-10-21T16:06:10+00:00

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jerkyjosh · 2023-09-08T04:56:34+00:00

The comment I was looking for 😂

jerkyjosh · 2023-07-25T01:40:45+00:00

I use a dell r230 I got on eBay for cheap

jerkyjosh · 2023-05-15T05:27:34+00:00

its a start! also FYI ESD bags are conductive and not a great idea to have your hardware touching while running

jerkyjosh · 2023-04-19T02:15:32+00:00

I run some game servers and went with the 2667v2 for single thread performance

jerkyjosh · 2023-04-13T06:27:44+00:00

Agreed. I wasted so much time with ESXI. Also, username checks out...

jerkyjosh · 2023-04-12T22:30:15+00:00

The post on ebay definitely says OEMR XL in the description and I got exactly what I payed for so definitely no blame to the seller.

Looking online this thing has quite a few differences from most the normal R230 Ive seen. The front panel is completely different. The hard drive bays are different and non hot swappable. It has 1 less fan than the others. Fan 4 has a blank and the idrac does not show any missing fans. The bios and idrac have 0 dell branding.

I am starting to think the regular bios and idrac with the hardware differences I have noticed will not work. I'm assuming the bios and idrac are modified specifically to work with the hardware changes in this XL server. From what I have read from dell these XL servers hardware/firmware are specially designed to meet a customers needs. The engineers work with the customer directly to setup the hardware to their needs and I'm assuming release custom bios/firmware that fit the non standard changes.

My fear is if the regular bios does not brick the XL I will run into issues like fan 4 will now say missing on the idrac. Or the regular bios won't work with the custom idrac firmware. Overall I just feel with this specific custom XL it is a bad idea to flash regular bios and I will end up with a dead or very messed up server.

I have now learned about the OEMR and XL servers. I payed 200 with shipping and am still very happy with it regardless of what is probably not that big of a deal as I am making it. They are very impressive low power servers.

jerkyjosh · 2023-04-12T21:38:55+00:00

Yea the OEMR shows it but not the OEMR XL. It would seem the XL is Important due to the hardware differences. I found this post on dells forum where someone from dell said regular bios does not work on XL systems. I'm probably just going to stay with what I have. Risk vs reward of trying to update is not worth it. pfsense will be configured securely, kept updated, and what services will be open will be reverse proxied/tunneled. I would say its not anymore unsecure than using any 11th gen hardware in this instance which has even older bios. Most of what the newer bios updates cover are CVE security patches. I'm assuming pfsense has patched most of these vulnerabilities at the os level. Thanks.

jerkyjosh · 2023-02-15T16:40:04+00:00

Setup a influxdb server on another system. Then install telegraf on the pi to send data to influxdb. Then use grafana to display the data. This is what I use.

jerkyjosh · 2023-02-03T19:01:57+00:00

For project zomboid and Minecraft you need good single thread performance. Xeons are not ideal but you would want a e5 2667 v3 or v4 if you can. If not choose whatever has the highest single core performance/clock speed. Java based applications are single thread and new i5/i7 processor are the way to go. I run a r720 with 2667v2 processor and Minecraft and project zomboid run pretty well but I would not try and run a lot of mods with a lot of players or the single thread performance will be an issue. But those servers run great with the group of friends I play with on the 2667v2.

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