After my first job as a printer technician I can believe some of the horrors to expect. Training on a nice shiny new printer vs one that had been installed upside down, backwards and whilst drunk…20 years ago haha

Ah it’s on three bits of wood screwed into the wall. Can still unscrew it and flip it over though so I may do that.

Thanks! I’ll check it out

I’m going to shore it up

Oh no the left picture is the before… Its gone downhill in terms of the mess

Good luck on retraining!

Honestly, throw a couple services running on ubuntu servers on the proxmox machine. It’s not the same as book learning, but it does help a lot with the basics and patchy knowledge I found. Not saying I’m an expert or anything, but I do know a lot more about managing Linux servers now than I did 5 years ago from running 15 of them on Proxmox

This is actually my second foray into IT work. I went to college for software development, failed that, went to work as a printer technician, left that, went into retail and now I am here. Thanks!

Those are the best places to find hardware to be fair. That and ebay/Facebook around the end of the financial year

Hey that’s my old CPU which I just retired from my old pc. If it wasn’t somewhat set aside for a pc for my SO it would be my new video encoder. The two servers I do have running do have some issues. The proxmox machine has a dead RAM slot and several dead fans or dead fan connectors. (Enough run to keep it cool at least). The Truenas box keeps showing an error with the second PSU and the vga out does not work (Either on front or back). Both work well enough for me.

Prism is my go to …it’s allright but I am still looking for new options. Have heard good things about Immich so might look at that

Nice! That is a decent setup, what are you using it for?

Ah it’s all good it’s holding on with the power of sheer will… Plus it was flexing that bad before the hardware got put on it and barely moved after… I hope…haha

Honestly, I just got lucky with a lot of the hardware. The two Dell servers cost a total of about £140, and I got three for that money. Sadly one needs a new motherboard but the rest of the hardware works fine

Apologies Mods I just realised this might fit better in a homelab community, please remove if it is not suitable

For anyone who is interested on the software I’m running through my proxmox server -

• A fan controller for the two Dell Poweredge servers
• NGINX Reverse Proxy
• Nextcloud
• iRedAdmin and Roundcube Webmail
• Vaultwarden
• Jellyfin
• Windows 7 (For development purposes, not always on)
• Guacamole
• Frigate NVR
• Foundry
• An ubuntu server purely to access the camera apps as they and the camera are all completely separated from the rest of my network
• Mosquito MQTT
• Home Assistant
• pfSense (For the camera network)
• Second Pihole Server
• Prism photos
• Deepstack
• and three lab pcs for the CCNA-