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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 (5 children)

A homelab is whatever you use to tinker and try things out A homeserver is whatever you use for stable workloads

Both can coexist at the time

Next level is a home datacenter, and that's where you have a 24 U rack or something that shouldn't fit in an apartment You have a homedatacenter!

I'm if you can post more about the hardware software and network config really curious about your setup, it looks well thought

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The growth has been purely organic. I cannot say any of it is really planned ahead of time. I use 16U vertical rails for each rack, and then build a cabinet around them that works for the space it is in, e.g. 32U in the cat bathroom rack, which is 16U side-by-side with another 16U. The arcade cabinet rack is 16U technically, but I only have 6U of rails in there, as the other space is pull out drawers to make it easier to work on the workstations without having to deal with cabling issues. 16U at the RV.

For permanent infra, I tend to buy new, because I want that extended warranty and am not interested in buying somebody elses problem. For projects, it is a mix of ebay finds and road-side or ewaste center salvage. I don't watch TV, but I probably own more 55" 4K TVs than any one person I know, because I salvage them (people in big cities throw out all sorts of stuff with minor electrical faults) and then turn them into personal projects, e.g. a touchscreen cat toy, a waterfall ring toss game in the door of an art gallery, a virtual window.

Some days it feels like everything is held together with string and chewing gum.

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

I was wondering on the sheer amount of monitors you had in your diagram....that helps explain it. Tip of the hat to you and your setup!

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