r/HomeDataCenter↗
A step up from a home lab
What happens when you step up from a home lab? You get a home datacenter! For those of us who host things ourselves, to an extreme.
65k subscribers66 posts / mo in Sep 202657 authors / mosince 2016
r/HomeDataCenter has 65k members (+47% over the last 12 months). It gets about 66 posts a month from 57 people. Top topics: Homelab Setup, Home Lab Setup and Home Server Setup.
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Topics and brands on r/HomeDataCenter
Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Homelab Setup7.6%
- Home Lab Setup7.6%
- Home Server Setup6.3%
- Server Hardware & Homelab2.8%
- NAS Storage Solutions2.1%
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Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- eBay
- Vast.ai
- Supermicro
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