Built at home
Real hardware, thoughtfully configured, maintained by a person who thinks downtime is a personal insult.
INDEPENDENTLY OVERENGINEERED IN WISCONSIN
Because one server was never going to be enough.
A home-grown technology playground for private photos, personal media, experiments, and a frankly unreasonable amount of blinking lights.
Self-hosted by choice. Fueled by curiosity. Occasionally supervised by dogs.
RIX / CORE POWERED
RIXFLIXMEDIA CORE
RIXSNAPSPHOTO VAULT
RIXAILAB / FUTURE
CORE / 10G
UPTIME IS A PERSONALITY TRAIT◉ ◉ ◉
LOCAL FIRST ↗
100% REAL HARDWARE ↗
HOMEGROWN INFRASTRUCTURE✦PRIVACY-MINDED BY DESIGN✦AN UNREASONABLE NUMBER OF CABLES
01 / THE LAB
Small operation.
Big server energy.
Not a giant corporation. Just a carefully maintained collection of machines, experiments, backups, and wildly ambitious plans.
Own your data
Exploring practical alternatives to handing every photo and file to yet another subscription service.
Never really finished
One upgrade leads to another. Then another. At some point the rack becomes a lifestyle.
02 / WHAT'S ON THE BENCH
The Rix ecosystem.
Some live privately. Some are being built. All are part of the experiment.
RixSnaps↗
A personal photo and video library built on Immich. Secure remote access and robust backup testing are part of the ongoing rollout.
RixFlix↗
Our private media server. Movie nights, serious audio gear, and more storage than anybody originally planned.
RixAI↗
Future experiments with local language models and AI running on dedicated hardware. GPU shopping is an ongoing condition.
RixHomeLab is a personal project. Public customer accounts and paid storage are not currently offered. Please don't upload sensitive data anywhere that hasn't been explicitly announced as ready.
03 / WHY DOES THIS EXIST?
Curiosity got
out of hand.
It started with wanting technology to work our way. Somewhere between the media library, photo backups, firewalls, networking, redundant drives, and rack-mounted everything, an ordinary hobby became RixHomeLab.
The goal is simple: build useful things, learn a lot, and have a little fun making it all unnecessarily capable.
“That is completely unnecessary.”— A sentence that has never stopped a homelab upgrade.
04 / UNSUPERVISED CONTROLS
Absolutely do not
press this button.
Engineering insists there is no practical reason for this control to exist. Naturally, we installed it anyway.
No real systems are connected to this button. Probably.