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When does it stop being homelab and become homeserver? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I diagrammed out my home lab/home server setup, mostly to keep a complete overview of how everything connects. I didn't want to get bogged down in aesthetics around colour scheme, or layout -- as you can no doubt tell. After a while diagramming it started to feel like a meme where I was trying to convey some crazy conspiracy theory on a wall of pinned paperwork and connecting threads. I think I am done documenting everything. But now I am wondering how obsessive I should be about detailing every little thing and VLANs and IP assignments. I don't really care if it looks like a dog's dinner, I really just care about "okay, where does this wire go to?" Is that the right approach?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It stops becoming a "homelab" when it's impacting your family.

My entire "homelab" is contained in one box- if something fails on it, no one cares- it won't impact anyone. My home network consists of a simple mesh network.

This is something I don't think a lot of people consider. If you're the one that set this up, and you expire tomorrow, do you really want the burden of figuring this out on your spouse/partner/kids???