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Me: hey, I own that exact Anker USB power supply. I'm basically as pro as this guy!
Narrator: his old laptop and external hard drive set-up was not as impressive, even with the Anker USB power supply.
Wow, you must be rich
I think the reason we aren't rich is because we do shit like this.
Anyway, I'm off to buy enough HDDs to get me through the end of the month.
Honestly its all cheaper than you think, 100% of it I bought used bar a few things, and over a long amount of time too. Plus messing with stuff like this has 100% helped me advance my career
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Feeling of inadequacy rising...
You must throw sick LAN parties...
I love the fact that you have a favourite switch!
Question. I have a home network that's more advanced than your typical house. I started holding back though as I figured when I die my family won't have a clue about all the stuff I have setup. Do you guys ever think about this? I'd hate to leave behind a nightmare for my family members to remove and replace with a regular ISP provided router.
Be single. Problem solved.
I’ve thought about it, and nobody will care about your/my elaborate setup after we are gone. It will just be replaced by a ISP router without regrets.
I've thought about that a lot. I don't know whether to try to type up a manual of how everything works or just leave instructions on how to revert to a more basic setup. Either way I think my family would struggle.
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Wow. That's really an overkill.
Any idea what's the power consumption of all that hardware?
How many hours a month do you spend upgrading or maintaining the network and all other software?
Also wanna know
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It is beyond me that you dont get symetrical connection with fiber in the US.
I am in the US and I do... In fact, I can upgrade to symmetrical 5Gb now with AT&T
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Australian here, I get 1000 / 50.. don't ask what it costs to upgrade that upload speed.
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Great job on the cabling and the setup! As an Apartment dweller, I hope you don't mind my living vicariously through your setup!
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You said complete details... So where's your private ssh key and public IP address?
Cool setup btw. Would love to get my hands on such a system.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| Jargon | Definition |
|---|---|
| Raptor | Methane-fueled rocket engine under development by SpaceX |
9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 20 acronyms.
[Thread #21 for this sub, first seen 11th Aug 2023, 00:35] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]
Who mentioned Raptor?....
Solid writeup. Good looking setup. I like how you have a great reason for every decision you made.
Crazy overkill for almost everyone, but you're living in the future!
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Yeah but can it host PiHole?
It sure can, but so far I've not found much use for it. I set it up to see if it can block YouTube ads in the mobile app, but it can't. Since I already use uBlock Origin, I don't know what I gain
At least from my experience, with a proper blacklist it shuts down a ton more stuff. Not just pure ads, but a ton of tracking and websites/apps phoning home too. You can configure it to be as strict or lenient as you'd like, basically. For me it's nice, because I can just apply it to the entire network, and I don't have to worry about trying to explain how this works to my family
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Crazy awesome setup! I noticed you had an enphase inverter next to your electrical meter, I assume for solar panels. Would you mind giving details about that system? What size array do you have and how efficient has it been? How are you monitoring the solar systems output?
I already made a detailed write up on the whole install and all the issues I faced, and monitoring. Here you go!
https://blog.networkprofile.org/17kw-enphase-solar-install/
https://blog.networkprofile.org/power-monitoring-setup-iotawatt-grafana/
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Hi OP. If you're reading this, I have a few questions:
- You're using the Linode box as the server, on which you forward ports for your services. Am I to assume that you somehow access your homelab via your VPN using the Linode box too? Usually people would access their lab at home directly.
- Wouldn't a whitebox build for your NAS save power?
- What are you using both switches for? Are you running out of ports?
- Since you're running VMWare, are you running VMs for every service? Why not containers?
- Even if most of the content on your blog is static, how are you hosting it for it to load so quickly? Are you using some sort of CDN in front of your Linode box to cache the static assets like pictures?
It was great reading about your lab. I'll try and follow your blog on RSS if you have a feed. Thanks.
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Gah, treasure trove of info. Thank you for sharing! How's the garage rack holding up? I'm so tempted to put some servers in my garage but the heat can get excessive.
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Holy #%!@ng sh#%.
I don't know if you've mentioned this somewhere, but what's the purpose of the GPS on a home server?
Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.
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- Its cool. Imagine being able to get data from 12 satellites at the same time to get super accurate time, with a $10 GPS board. What a time to be alive!
- I'm trying to reduce the amount of stuff I'm relying on the internet for. Time is pretty important, and having a local server solves all that.
Fucking amazing writeup, I haven't read it all yet but from what I read there's a lot of good information and inspiration
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You. I like you.
Honestly amazing setup. It's more robust than some industrial applications I've seen.
Thanks for such a great write-up. I'll definitely be referring back to it as I upgrade my homelab.
Cheers!
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Part of me looks at this man as a system God among us puny and unworthy users.
The other part is saying just keep paying for one drive and Netflix. As the saying goes "the first step to powerbill and uptime hell is the simple plex server"
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Great setup! but is the thumbnail showing as George Takei for anyone else?
Sweet setup, what's the reason for the extreme attention to backup power? is the grid really that unreliable where you are?
I've had one unplanned power outage in the last 10 years so it seems like a crazy amount of backup to me.
The grid both is and isn't unreliable. I've not had many random outages, but I have had 2 x day long outages on hot Friday's when they were replacing power poles, which the generator of course kept me through. Working from home, and being in the Texas heat, that would be bad. And I like many people now have really bad power outage PTSD after the 2021 Texas Freeze where we all lost power. I'll never let that happen again! And turning everything off is such a hassle, I want it to to all stay on no matter what. Since I work from home, that adds another layer too. Plus, I just like cool things
Yeah that seems kinda crazy to me too. I've lived in my current house for 8 years and the only time the power has gone out was when a vehicle crashed into one of the distribution boxes by the road. Our power and internet come from the same provider so it was a double whammy for several hours.
But I suppose it depends where you are - i worked at a place that had two independent power feeds from two different cities, massive UPSs to run the datacenter for 10 minutes and then two redundant diesel generators with several months of fuel on site. I still saw that go down twice in my time there.
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