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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny you think I'm pro, I just like blinky lights!

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's this or plastic surgery

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm too ugly for plastic surgery

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Feeling of inadequacy rising...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You must throw sick LAN parties...

I love the fact that you have a favourite switch!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly I'd love to throw a LAN party

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Be single. Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also wanna know

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is beyond me that you dont get symetrical connection with fiber in the US.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I am in the US and I do... In fact, I can upgrade to symmetrical 5Gb now with AT&T

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Australian here, I get 1000 / 50.. don't ask what it costs to upgrade that upload speed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Who mentioned Raptor?....

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I work in a school and I think you have more stuff than we do lol.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but can it host PiHole?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe I'll give it a go again, after all it does have a really nice slick WebUI

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hi OP. If you're reading this, I have a few questions:

  1. 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.
  2. Wouldn't a whitebox build for your NAS save power?
  3. What are you using both switches for? Are you running out of ports?
  4. Since you're running VMWare, are you running VMs for every service? Why not containers?
  5. 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Holy #%!@ng sh#%.

[–] erre 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know if you've mentioned this somewhere, but what's the purpose of the GPS on a home server?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the advantage of self hosting an NTP server?

After all, it just tells time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Knowing the time is pretty important to (networked) computers

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
  1. 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!
  2. 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.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very nice! Nothing wrong with a little overkill. :D

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Encrypted mesh networking is cool.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Great setup! but is the thumbnail showing as George Takei for anyone else?

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