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what IT really looks like

submitted by o0shad0o to technology 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 17:12:54 ago (+21/-1)     (files.catbox.moe)

https://files.catbox.moe/4ai0nq.mp4

This is a BIG homelab, using mostly consumer-grade equipment with a few real pieces I bought at a discount. Still ironing bugs out here and there.

Thanks https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=66483c374c0dd&commentid=6648afcfd9dfd


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[ - ] deleted 3 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 17:24:45 ago (+3/-0)

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[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 19:21:15 ago (+1/-0)

Main router is running PFsense (which I really ought to switch to opnsense but I'm lazy). Many services running, including multiple (mostly internal) web servers, Nextcloud, a couple of Minecraft worlds, various cache servers, voip phone service, a redundant slow NAS, a much faster NAS, video surveillance including rebroadcasting to local PCs, all running over Starlink with the network on an extended-run UPS. Other experimental stuff going, including some boxes intended to do some crypto mining on once I have a solar system in. (It'll make for a good dump load.)

[ - ] deleted 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 19:26:25 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 20:12:18 ago (+0/-0)*

I live in a rural county with long distance charges to the nearby city, and years ago there wasn't even a local cell site. I got a phone line through a company called packet8 and it's worked fairly well, even when I was running through the phone co-op's DSL. (I don't think they handle residential accounts any more though.) And Starlink has been pretty darn good latency-wise, it's not like the service to geosync. 60ms is workable, even if it's not ideal. (And the latency doesn't even affect the voip. :-)

[ - ] green_man 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 21:02:35 ago (+1/-0)

Are you running bare metal or virtualized? Looks like a lot of hardware if you're running bare metal.

[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 21:04:11 ago (+1/-0)

Running a number of containers and vms. Note that not all those machines are up, and most notably everything on the left-most stack is currently powered down. (Top three are future crypto miners.)

[ - ] CoronaHoax 0 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 21:49:40 ago (+0/-0)

Exactly what does anyone have to run that their personal machine or a VPS wouldn't do perfectly fine for them?

[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 22:29:56 ago (+0/-0)

Well, I don't want to send my backup data to a VPS, that'd burn my bandwidth. Also, I feel more comfortable having my Nextcloud on hardware I can reach out and touch. Much of the rest, yeah, I could do it on VPS, but I wanna play. :-P

[ - ] deleted 0 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 23:44:17 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Master_Foo 2 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 18:10:20 ago (+2/-0)

Seems a bit much for a home lab.

back in the early 2000's I had one like that.
Bunch of crap scavenged from university auctions.

Containers and the cloud pretty much made all that obsolete though.

[ - ] rhy 1 point 11 monthsMay 20, 2024 06:35:28 ago (+1/-0)

What are you using for VMs? I'm a proxmox nerd personally.

[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 20, 2024 06:42:07 ago (+0/-0)

^__^

[ - ] albatrosv15 1 point 11 monthsMay 20, 2024 03:33:50 ago (+1/-0)

And here i am with couple laptops, one desktop and a raspberry.

[ - ] canbot 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 23:07:13 ago (+1/-0)

Can you run deep fakes on it?

[ - ] Localuser 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 20:10:11 ago (+1/-0)

That’s nice. I’m jealous. I would like to build something like this and run something, not sure what. How do you keep all that cool? You running hot/cold air flow?

[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 20:14:44 ago (+1/-0)

We put a server closet into a shop building that went up about 5 years ago here. It has a redundant 3-ton mini-split system cooling things down.

[ - ] TheNoticing 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 18:55:58 ago (+1/-0)

What in the hell are you using that for?

[ - ] NoRefunds 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 18:43:41 ago (+1/-0)

Buy a bunch of blanks, it will look way badass when you put em in

[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 19:23:39 ago (+0/-0)

I'm kinda violating the spacing standard in a bunch of places so blanks won't fit. ^__^; And it'd only look smoother from the front. Some of the cases also vent out the top and this gives them more airflow.

[ - ] iSnark 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 18:06:46 ago (+1/-0)

Good on YOU! Nicely Done!

How do you afford the electricity to keep that setup going>

[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 19:25:03 ago (+0/-0)

It's actually not that much. At some point I may be using some machines to mine crypto as a dump load for an upcoming solar system, but then the solar system will be providing the electricity.

[ - ] iSnark 1 point 11 monthsMay 19, 2024 19:38:32 ago (+1/-0)

You had me for a minute there, when you said "solar system", I immediately though of space, which led me to "Men in Black", where they have an entire universe in a piece hanging a cats neck. (YouTube It) In all that sounds like a pretty smartly built system. Best of luck with the future mods.

[ - ] UncleDoug 0 points 11 monthsMay 20, 2024 05:11:17 ago (+0/-0)

Crypto mining?

[ - ] o0shad0o [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 20, 2024 05:37:58 ago (+0/-0)

I plan to do some mining as a dump load for a solar system - spending electricity that would otherwise be going nowhere when the sun is out and the batteries are all charged.