Free I.T. Athens

We would like to welcome some of the newest volunteers and they both jumped right in and started learning how to refurbish computers

Cloud server technology :)

Does anyone have or know of anyone that has 2 hood vents to donate? it just has to work and have a way to exhaust the smoke up and out

Someone need a door? 80 inches tall 36 inches wide. It is an extra door that we do not need here. We replaced it with a solid door to keep the dBAN room secure. Free.

A donor that wants to stay anonymous has donated this excellent workbench that is also ESD protected as you can see Brandon Queen is already making use of it

We honor the brave men and women who gave everything for our freedom. Their Courage and sacrifice will never be forgotten.

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Ever thought about building a Home Lab using completely OPEN SOURCE solutions? We did… and it has been an awesome learning experience!

At Free I.T. Athens, we’ve been diving deep into enterprise-style infrastructure using tools anyone can explore at home. Here’s what we recently deployed:

* An OPNSense Firewall for network security
* A Proxmox VE virtualization server
* TWO additional Proxmox nodes for failover and redundancy
* A Proxmox Backup Server for automated backups
* ZFS storage configuration for reliability and performance
* Hourly VM backups (okay… maybe that part was a little overkill , we're doing hourly so see how much it can back up)

This setup may be more than most home labs need, but the experience of learning how to deploy, configure, and manage all of it has been incredibly fun and valuable.

We’re currently writing a full article explaining how we built everything step-by-step so you can explore these solutions for your own home lab projects!

Check out these amazing open-source platforms:
Proxmox VE https://www.proxmox.com
OPNsense Firewall https://opnsense.org

Keep an eye out for the upcoming post — and yes, we’ll also send it through Mailchimp!

AND… we will host a hands-on class where you can learn to set up one or both of these solutions yourself… and keep what you build.