Documentation for the folk.zone homelab infrastructure.

folk.zone is a self-hosted homelab running on the casa server (192.168.1.85) in Calgary, Alberta. All services run in Docker containers orchestrated via docker-compose.

• Hardware: ThinkPad X270, Intel Core i5-7300U, 7.5 GB RAM, 233 GB NVMe
• OS: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
• Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Network: 192.168.1.85

All folk.zone services run from the server directory on casa. The architecture uses:

• Single compose file: server/docker-compose.yml contains all services
• Shared Caddy: One reverse proxy handles TLS for all folk.zone subdomains
• No Cloudflare Tunnel: Direct HTTPS via Let's Encrypt
• Single network: folkzone_net for inter-container communication
• Consistent naming: folkzone_ prefix for all services and volumes

• Services - All deployed services
• Machines - The physical fleet: casa, cafe, vivobook, Android micro-servers
• Infrastructure - Docker, networking, security
• Troubleshooting - Bug fixes and resolutions
• Networking - DNS, CDN, network configuration
• History - Hardware lineage and migrations

• folk.zone Policies - Terms, community standards, moderation, registration
• Email and SMTP - Transactional email delivery strategy

• (on hiatus): Mastodon · Lemmy · Forgejo
• OpenGist · EtherCalc · WBO
• PrivateBin · Kutt · Linkding

• Wiki Home - Return to main wiki page
• Wiki Hygiene Rules - Community guidelines

Last updated: 2026-10-23