Welcome to madcow.fyi — the central access portal for the Madcow private homelab and cloud infrastructure.
All services are hosted on dedicated bare-metal hardware, orchestrated via Docker Compose, backed by an automated ZFS storage pool, and secured with wildcard SSL and isolated private network routing via Tailscale.
[!NOTE] Access Notice: Public internet traffic routes securely through encrypted tunnels. Many administrative and storage services require an active Tailscale mesh connection or local network access (
madcow.lan).
Bitwarden-compatible end-to-end encrypted password and secrets manager with Web Crypto API security.
High-performance photo and video backup solution with ML face recognition and mobile synchronization.
Full-text searchable automated document archiving with OCR, tagging, and correspondence indexing.
Open-source media streaming server for movies, television, and audio collections across all screens.
Clean media discovery and automated request system integrated with Radarr and Sonarr.
Locally hosted PDF manipulation Swiss Army knife: split, merge, convert, OCR, and edit.
Decentralized, continuous file synchronization across laptops, phones, and the central ZFS storage pool.
Web interface for Docker container lifecycle, stack inspection, logs, and resource management.
Reverse proxy administration, wildcard SSL certificate provisioning, and ingress domain routing.
Real-time uptime status monitoring, response time metrics, and service heartbeat alerts.
Consolidated homelab dashboard integrating live metrics, system resources, and service shortcuts.
The automated content pipeline relies on TRaSH Guides zero-copy atomic hardlinks for instant, zero-storage file organization:
| Service | Primary Subdomain | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Sonarr | sonarr.madcow.fyi |
TV series tracker & automated file organizer |
| Radarr | radarr.madcow.fyi |
Movie collection manager & automated pipeline |
| Prowlarr | prowlarr.madcow.fyi |
Centralized indexer and tracker proxy manager |
| Bazarr | bazarr.madcow.fyi |
Automated multi-language subtitle synchronizer |
| qBittorrent | qbit.madcow.fyi |
High-throughput BitTorrent download client |
tank/appdata, tank/photos, tank/storage, tank/media) with Sanoid automated snapshots and Syncoid offsite backup.For the full infrastructure documentation, deployment instructions, and disaster recovery guides, visit the Homelab Repository Documentation.