I'm going to paint my office in the next couple of weeks, which'll mean taking down my homelab and recabling everything. I'm lookng forward to
it. The walls are sort of a pale blue, and I have to correct for a blue cast when I'm on video.
I have an old Asian armoire that serves as my server cabinet - it's got
16 apothecary drawers full of cables, drives, old phones, earbuds and assorted crap. Inside are a color inkjet printer, color laser and one Proxmox node running in a desktop PC.
On top is the mess - https://realitycheckbbs.org/images/homelab.jpg
A Synology NAS, 8 port gig switch, thinkpad running Proxmox and an
OpenWRT router. The cables are a complete mess, as is power. I have a
UPS on the floor with a couple of power strips fed from it inside the armoire.
I'm going to shore up the legs of the armoire, it's already holding way more than it should. Once it's pulled away from the wall, it's time to manage cables. It'll be nice to get everything labeled, documented and cables dressed before putting it back up against the wall.
That reminds me, I should place an order with Monoprice for a couple of different sizes of cables. I think I have 6 foot cables where a 1 foot cable would do.
I've seen some interesting deals on rough-condition newer thinkpads,
would like to find one with more than the 4 cores, 4 threads I'm
currently running. NVMe would be nice, too.
That reminds me, I should place an order with Monoprice for a couple of
different sizes of cables. I think I have 6 foot cables where a 1 foot
cable would do.
Have you considered buying a reel of it and making your own? Then you can ge just the right length for each cable for extra cable pr0n =)
Perhaps if you're ready to advance to the next level, a cheap used rack moun server could be a thing? I use Dell PowerEdge servers for my homelab, the R620 is nice, dual xeon cpu, mine has 32 threads total. I also have an R810 in the data centre, that is something I may consider bringing home at some point lol... but that's way OP... 64 threads, 428GB ram =) vroooom!
Have you considered buying a reel of it and making your own? Then you c just the right length for each cable for extra cable pr0n =)
Been there, done that, never doing it again. I worked in a shop where the manager wanted custom length cables, so we'd route the cable through the cable managers then cut and crimp each end. I'm *horrible* at crimping connectors!
Perhaps if you're ready to advance to the next level, a cheap used rack server could be a thing? I use Dell PowerEdge servers for my homelab, t R620 is nice, dual xeon cpu, mine has 32 threads total. I also have an in the data centre, that is something I may consider bringing home at s point lol... but that's way OP... 64 threads, 428GB ram =) vroooom!
Yeah, I missed the opportunity to take home 2 DL380 Gen8 boxes with dual xeons, 256 gb of RAM and a ton of disk. Way too much noise and power, though.
All I'm running full-time is the BBS, then a couple of containers - PiHole, Nginx Proxy Manager and a self-hosted bookmark manager. I don't need a whole lot.
MeaTLoTioN wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
All I'm running full-time is the BBS, then a couple of containers - PiHole, Nginx Proxy Manager and a self-hosted bookmark manager. I don't need a whole lot.
"I don't need a whole lot" - =) Once you get something more capable, you'll find something to use the extra horsepower I'm certain! haha.
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