Tech:Prometheus
🔥 The Rise of Prometheus: MoNoRi-Chan’s Homelab Titan 🔥
“Boys don’t grow up. Their toys just get louder, heavier, and have blinking status LEDs.”
In a quiet room with a $5 table salvaged from a neighbor’s garage sale, sits Prometheus—a Dell R630 server that growls awake with the rage of two Xeon CPUs and dreams of virtualization glory. Welcome to MoNoRi-Chan’s latest absurd and beautiful escalation in the arms race of homelabbing.
What started with a humble Intel NUC—once a cute palm-sized tinker box for Docker containers—has evolved into a full-on data center in exile, humming under a folding table somewhere in NeoBangkok. The age of Prometheus has begun.
⚙️ Specs of Prometheus:
Model: Dell R630 (1U height, 10U personality)
CPU: Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz, 16 cores / 32 threads total
RAM: 64 GB ECC DDR4
Storage Pool:
- ZFS Mirror using dual Toshiba 2.5” 1TB HDDs (yeah, spinning rust, baby)
- Thailand-imported SSD for dedicated ZFS SLOG (Write Intent Log) — giving those writes an express lane
- 256GB SSD as boot drive for Proxmox, with extra room for LVM-thirsty VMs
🧠 The Brain: Proxmox VE
Running the whole show is Proxmox VE, the Swiss Army nuke of homelab operating systems. With ZFS native support and hardware passthrough ready out of the box, it turns raw silicon into orchestral harmony.
- 🧪 ZFS Mirroring gives redundancy
- ⚡ SLOG device boosts sync writes like caffeine in a LAN party
- 📦 LVM storage stands ready to deploy VMs like a war general dealing out containers
🧱 The Setup: More "Garage-Style", Less "Enterprise-Grade"
Unlike corporate setups with six-figure server racks and AC-controlled server rooms, Prometheus rests confidently on a $5 garage sale folding table. Cables dangle like jungle vines. Airflow is questionable. A UPS? Just a power strip and prayers.
But hey, functionality over aesthetics. As MoNoRi-Chan himself might say:
"Who needs a rack when you’ve got a rack of ideas?"
🧙 Use Cases So Far:
- Minecraft server from hell (PaperMC with ZFS acceleration)
- Virtual testbeds for Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Windows Server VMs
- Running containers for weird experiments and forbidden scripting rituals
- Benchmarking disk IO just to flex those SLOG muscles
🧢 Philosophy: From NUC to Nuclear
This machine isn't just a server. It's a manifesto. A rebellion against the Cloud Rent Economy and a tribute to raw compute power being reclaimed by the people. MoNoRi-Chan didn’t just build a homelab—he built a temple to Prometheus, bringing fire back to the humans (in the form of 10G NICs and absurd RAM usage).
"Boys don’t grow up. Their toys just get bigger." And in MoNoRi-Chan’s case, louder, hotter, and infinitely more complicated.
💬 Final Thoughts
Prometheus isn’t racked. It isn’t cooled. It isn’t even fancy.
But it works, it serves, and it rules.
From the ashes of budget builds and garage leftovers, a god of homelabs has risen.
So the next time someone tells you to “just spin up an EC2 instance,” tell them:
“Nah, I got a rackmount on a folding table, ZFS mirror on spinning rust, SLOG on an import SSD, and a dream.”
And that’s how legends are born.
Want a Prometheus sticker? No. You get blinking LEDs and hot-swap bays.
That's your reward.
