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The hardware, network and services behind MiniWest. Everything runs on my own infrastructure.

The rack

Since 2026 everything lives in a 1/8 rack colocation at RealtoxMedia. It runs MiniWest Cloud, and with it this website.

Before (2025): own hardware at WIIT AG DUS6.

Router

Routing

Dell PowerEdge R330

CPU
Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6
RAM
16 GB DDR4 UDIMM ECC
Storage
2x 150 GB Intel DC SSD
Network
  • 2x 40G Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro
  • 2x 10G Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro

Switch

Switching

Arista DCS-7050SX-64-F

Ports
  • 48x 10G SFP+
  • 4x 40G QSFP+

PVE1

Proxmox VE

HPE ProLiant DL360 G9

CPU
1x Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4
RAM
256 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage
  • 2x 150 GB Intel DC SSD
  • 2x 1.92 TB Samsung Enterprise SSD
  • 4x 3 TB Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD

PVE2

Proxmox VE

Dell PowerEdge R630

CPU
2x Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4
RAM
512 GB DDR4 ECC
Storage
  • 2x 150 GB Intel DC SSD
  • 4x 1.92 TB Samsung Enterprise SSD

Projects via miniwest.cloud

  • AS215666

    My own autonomous system for routing, BGP and peering. Every MiniWest Cloud service sits on this network.

    • BGP
    • Routing
    • Peering
    • IPv4 & IPv6

  • mw-ns.de / fish-ns.de

    Redundant nameserver cluster for highly available DNS services.

    • DNS
    • High Availability
    • Redundancy
    • Nameserver

  • Monitoring

    Monitoring setup that watches every service and infrastructure component and alerts on problems.

    • Grafana
    • Prometheus
    • Alerting
    • Metrics

  • MiniWest Cloud

    The cloud and hosting project running on this hardware. Independent, with its own site.