Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this
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.
Best I can do is my public key on the contact page!
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I don’t know if you’ve mentioned this somewhere, but what’s the purpose of the GPS on a home server?
- 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.
Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.
What is the advantage of self hosting an NTP server?
After all, it just tells time
Knowing the time is pretty important to (networked) computers
One example:
Another use case: when you look at activities that flow across multiple devices and you’re correlating the sequence of events, having every device set to the exact same, ideally correct time makes correlation of events less confusing.
After all, it just tells time
It’s for making your computers clocks be very, very close to each other. Not milliseconds close, but nano seconds. That is more important than one might think, especially for networks.
I’m going to have something similar at home at some point, just need to make a few more cable runs so one GPS can see the sky (= more accurate)
Fucking amazing writeup, I haven’t read it all yet but from what I read there’s a lot of good information and inspiration
Thanks!
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?
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
Also wanna know
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.
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.
Got it, sharing the password to my obscure furry midget porn collection with my people
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.
Hahaha true for me too that they would struggle
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 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
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)
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)?
Ops got a diesel backup generator, says it takes 10 min to kick in if there’s a power outage.
its a Natural Gas generator, and it actually takes 10 SECONDS!
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
I work in a school and I think you have more stuff than we do lol.
I don’t know if I should be happy or sad
Proud.
Holy #%!@ng sh#%.
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!
Thanks!
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.
Loved the UPS article itself. If you wanted to level it up one more time, you could do something like this: https://hackaday.com/2023/07/31/automatic-transfer-switch-keeps-internet-online/
It is a automatic transfer switch, so that in the case of a UPS failure, the power can be transferred to a wall outlet fast enough that you shouldn’t experience an outage.
Yeah that’s on my to do list, I’m looking for some ATS PDU’s for cheap, like the CyberPower PDU20MHVT10AT
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Who mentioned Raptor?..
I love that Verizon mounting solution! Velcro is the civilized man’s duct tape!
I do wish I had some white velcro though!
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
“What would you do if you won the lottery?”
Me: points to this blog post.
You’ll be surprised how cheap some equipment goes for when a company runs out of business. Just sayin
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.
it’s this or plastic surgery
I’m too ugly for plastic surgery
No way that’s true: possums are known for the natural majesty!
