AmonWhat's with the overkill hardware setups?
deegeesePeople who are proud of their gear post it.
You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
We use containers now btw
My home lab is my windows gaming PC running containers on a Ubuntu VM as a guest os in Hyper-V.
We are all over the shop.
We are all over the shop.
I wish I knew how to do that. Can’t get my VMM or Virtual Box running well.
I run a cluster of VMs that run kubernetes and manage those VMs with containers that run Terraform and ansible. Along with baremetal RISC-V workflows and ASICs.
A tool is a tool and one should pick what works for them.
Why? Wouldn’t the VMs add extra complexity? Couldn’t you just run the containers on the machine?
Do you have experience with kubernetes or kubectln and DR?
I keep my laptop in a bookbag thanks.
You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
That’s probably me. Blame it to working with automation systems that span from the early 90s to present day.
comador You seldom hear from the folks running a half dozen VMs on a laptop.
That’s probably me. Blame it to working with automation systems that span from the early 90s to present day.
PTSD flashbacks of trying to get CFEngine configured for deploying Windows 2k, Redhat 3 and Solaris 8 lmao.
I used to sell a product that OEMed CFEngine. My condolences.
I want to hear from them because that’s the setup I’m aiming for.
Where are you all discussing your shit so I can eavesdrop and steal ansible playbooks?
I feel so seen rn
Less power is more power!
Just because you can afford to lose your weird niche fetish porn doesn’t mean I can afford to lose my calendar and contacts
Who says it’s overkill?
That said I literally started selfhosting on a Thinkpad W520. With the full 32 gigs of ram it ran ESXI great. I was going to buy a mini PC to run along with it when I needed more, but I just opted to take old desktop parts and combine my NAS with everything else.
Lucy :3Doing something scrappy with an old laptop is cool. Hey, built in UPS if the battery still works!
Doing something powerful and reliable with server class hardware is also very cool.
If it is meeting your needs, I’m happy for you.
Sorry to tell you I never had a battery
CaptainBlagbirdI guess I’m somewhere in between with a bunch of RasPis xD
Boomer Humor DoomergodEmbracing constraints makes you learn fast. I bet you could teach enterprise sysadmins a few things about performance monitoring and optimization.
Some people actually have the services they host get used by other people.
Best I can do is Samsung galaxy A71 with lineage os.
pelyaMissing a Raspberry PI setup which hosts a print server, an RTP server with two sirveillance webcams and no password, and also seeds a terabyte of torrents over the local flower shop’s unencrypted WiFi.
Wow, that was a journey… :)
Let’s be real though, What’s someone doing with three oscilloscopes
Darkassassin07Viewing multiple signals, signal generation, digital signal analysis.
You may be able to do most of that with the newer one on the top of the stack; but it’s nice to have backups/spares to use.
Mad scientist shit.
peoplebeproblemsMan crazy fun is to be had with sillyscopes
Build your own breadboard with ICs and you can play doom on it.
Well kind of. But dude, you can get all sort of crazy ass signal information from your circuits with em. Like watching SPI devices talk to each other is wild.
Playing Doom.
An experiment because someone once thought “you know what would be better than two oscilloscopes?”
Sometimes one or two just don’t have enough channels. The bottom one doesn’t look like a scope though. It may be a spectrum analyzer, but it’s hard to see.
jylI also host my stuff on oscilloscopes.
That pic looks very much like the corner of a memory validation lab I worked in at one point. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if someone who’s really into server hardware had a home setup like that.
bruhduhI have setup like that because i do a lot of repairs and I’ve yet to acquire minipc for server purposes, plan to buy n100 fanless one, for now i have rented vps for 2 years for selfhosting purposes
Working hardware is working hardware; form factor doesn’t really matter.
My primary DNS server is a rpi.
Mine was my SOs grandmother’s Pentium PC from like 2003 until something just stopped in it. Like can’t even tell what is wrong with it cause it’s just inconsistently down and then back up.
So now it’s a small PC I got from eBay that came with like a free monitor and keyboard and stuff for like $60
That sounds like storage failure.
I actually ran into something similar with the RPI 2 weeks ago. It was running incredibly slow, certain file directories refused to load, DNS resolution was failing 1/3 of the time and was super slow when it did work…
Pretty sure the 6 year old sd card finally gave up.
Having a script automatically write a bootable backup of the SD card to an SSH server once a week makes that recovery super easy. Literally just write the last backup to the card, swap them out, and all’s well again.
FedegenerateI like my n100 mini and usb drives. A full fat server has little WAF when the selling point is an LLM. The n100 handles all our needs sadly.
A dozen or so LXCs. A dozen or so docker containers. A couple VMs, including a Mint VM to turn my android tablet into a desktop. They were sold as a great little home lab, and that they are.
Then again, it’s a year old and I’m only beginning in this hobby.
It even has an integrated UPS.
I never received the battery
I just have a dell optiplex sitting in the corner running Proxmox. then I can spin up whatever I need.
SurpI mean you aren’t going to host 100tb of porn in that laptop…yet 😘
DontTreadOnBigfootDon’t even have 256G installed in that thing
🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖I have 2 old dell prebuilt boxes of shit things stacked on top of eachother. I do need some recommendations for storage as I currently just have everything on a single ssd.
Get a few scrap hdds and fit them in or idk wire the sata cables out of the case?
Then create a raid 0+1 configuration and you now have a couple tb of redundant storage.
Bonus points if you can get even more hdds (use usb adapters maybe?)
I can probably 3d print something to hold the hdd’s and get a cheap pcie sata card. If u got any recommendations for where to get some cheap drives lmk.
I have an overkill hardware setup because it’s fun. No I don’t really need 4 servers in a Proxmox cluster with 64GB RAM each… but it’s cool lol. Besides the hardware was just gonna become ewaste anyway, I’m repurposing it
How did you get multiple 64 GB RAM sticks that would’ve been ewaste?
As it’s obsolete server hardware, I’m guessing each one has a bunch of low capacity ram sticks in it. And they’re probably not the regular consumer grade stuff, but some other spec.
ddhElectricity meter go brrrrr
Hey, free heat on the winter…
You’re not wrong. Currently running 4 “servers” (describes their role, they’re really just repurposed desktops) and averaging 350W. Oof. Time to try ARM soon I think.
It was the same in my house, with a 19" rack and old workstations. I’m downsizing to a 10" rack and so far it’s quieter and cheaper (in the long run!)
They’re not even real servers actually, 2 of them are my old gaming PCs I built in 2012 and 2017 and I have many Dell Optiplexes and the like lying around I reuse for various things
I have upgraded some of the parts in them - including the RAM, because ballooning VMs are annoying - but it’s still true they’d be ewaste otherwise
64GB total each haha. Well, one only has 32 but details.
I just upgraded my daily driver laptop to a new desktop, so now I’m using the laptop as a home server. Much more powerful than anything else I could afford.
I wonder how easy it is to get used server racks, and how cheap they are 🤔
I reckon the electricity is the real killer (and the noise!)