Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this

  • @TDCN@feddit.dk
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • @moody@lemmings.world
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    52 years ago

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

  • @mordred@lemmy.world
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    52 years ago

    Fucking amazing writeup, I haven’t read it all yet but from what I read there’s a lot of good information and inspiration

  • @Fabbbrrr@lemmy.world
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    112 years ago

    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?

    • @GiantPossum@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 years ago

      Honestly, I’m not 100% sure. I don’t have a way to monitor just the stuff in the rack as the UPS also powers a lot of other stuff in the house. Either way, I’ve worked to make everything fairly low power, or at least as low power as feasible. The things that use the most power is the disks

      I can tell you its less than 800w though, as that’s the lowest the UPS goes at night. But that also does include both me and my wifes desktops which stay on 24/7, and an Apple TV, and standby power for all devices etc

  • @Swarfega@lemm.ee
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    112 years ago

    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.

    • withtheband
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      12 years ago

      Also thought about that a lot. The most important is that your people can access your data. My partner and bestie both have LUKS keys on all of my devices.

      Maybe do a test run with them to see if they can actually access it.

      • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        Got it, sharing the password to my obscure furry midget porn collection with my people

    • @BendingUnit@lemmy.world
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      42 years ago

      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.

    • @monotux@lemmy.world
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      42 years 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.

    • @GiantPossum@lemmy.worldOP
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      12 years ago

      I have Bitwarden set to give my wife access if she requests it and I don’t respond in X days

      Things generally “just work” so she would have access to everything, and she can figure out what she wants to do. All the passwords are there and all of the configs are fairly easy for stuff she cares about anyway

    • Cole
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      12 years ago

      My opinion is that your spouse will have to get rid of any other hobby related stuff. If you’re a fisherman, she’s going to have to find something to do with all the tackle, boat/s, gear.

      I know a guy that was a woodworker who had a shop full of well over $20k worth of tools. Poor guy got cancer and died, and his wife had to try to get rid of all of it. Luckily she had some of his woodworking friends who helped her price and sell the stuff. (I got a pretty nice used planer out of the deal)

  • @Fredy1422@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Like the idea of multi-room UPS. Question, once the UPS battery run out during a power outage, is there any other type of power generation (Solar, Propane or gasoline) as a backup (aware of the servers will consume more watts than it can generate)?

    • @GiantPossum@lemmy.worldOP
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      Yes, I have a 27kw Natural Gas standby generator with an ATS. It takes 10 seconds from power failure, to it switching to generator power. So, the UPS just bridges that gap

      In the extremely unlikely even the natural gas goes out, I have a 7.2kw Tri-fuel portable generator (Gasoline, NG and Propane) and I keep around 80 gallons of gasoline on hand, and I have an inlet and interlock on the main breaker, so I can switch to that if needed

  • @Foreverwinter@lemmy.world
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    42 years ago

    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!

  • @HellAwaits@lemm.ee
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    42 years ago

    That is definitely overkill, so you must be an enthusiast.

    That’s OK. I have a old Dell Poweredge that I use for simply torrenting and backing up everything I ever torrented.

    • @GiantPossum@lemmy.worldOP
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      22 years ago

      Yeah that’s on my to do list, I’m looking for some ATS PDU’s for cheap, like the CyberPower PDU20MHVT10AT

  • @Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzB
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    2 years ago

    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]

    • Faceman🇦🇺
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      192 years 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.

    • @GiantPossum@lemmy.worldOP
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      182 years 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

      • @LrdThndr@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        I’ve been trying to hunt down cheap used network equipment lately. It’s a weird thing to be disappointed that there aren’t any failing businesses around me :(

        I’m about to make an 8 hour round trip drive for a cheap server rack this coming weekend. Please send help.