Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this
This guy selfhosts.
Feeling of inadequacy rising…
Fucking amazing writeup, I haven’t read it all yet but from what I read there’s a lot of good information and inspiration
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Wow, you must be rich
it’s this or plastic surgery
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.
Sweet setup, what’s the reason for the extreme attention to backup power? is the grid really that unreliable where you are?
I’ve had one unplanned power outage in the last 10 years so it seems like a crazy amount of backup to me.
Yeah that seems kinda crazy to me too. I’ve lived in my current house for 8 years and the only time the power has gone out was when a vehicle crashed into one of the distribution boxes by the road. Our power and internet come from the same provider so it was a double whammy for several hours.
But I suppose it depends where you are - i worked at a place that had two independent power feeds from two different cities, massive UPSs to run the datacenter for 10 minutes and then two redundant diesel generators with several months of fuel on site. I still saw that go down twice in my time there.
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
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!
Holy #%!@ng sh#%.
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.
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)?
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
Be single. Problem solved.
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
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?
Also wanna know
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.
Hi OP. If you’re reading this, I have a few questions:
- You’re using the Linode box as the server, on which you forward ports for your services. Am I to assume that you somehow access your homelab via your VPN using the Linode box too? Usually people would access their lab at home directly.
- Wouldn’t a whitebox build for your NAS save power?
- What are you using both switches for? Are you running out of ports?
- Since you’re running VMWare, are you running VMs for every service? Why not containers?
- Even if most of the content on your blog is static, how are you hosting it for it to load so quickly? Are you using some sort of CDN in front of your Linode box to cache the static assets like pictures?
It was great reading about your lab. I’ll try and follow your blog on RSS if you have a feed. Thanks.
