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Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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I have my own (not nearly as sophisticated) home lab, with an old self-built desktop acting as a kvm host.

while it's not as pretty, the biggest win for me was to move all of the vm disks onto a Synology that I'm mounting via iscsi. it tends to work really well.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Sweet! Here's my homelab - https://i.imgur.com/QS0o4ni.jpg - I should self host an about page, too. - Netgear Cable modem - Edgerouter ER4 - 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network. - Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server - TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear. - 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host. - ESXi is pretty ligh…

> Synology DS918 This might be the best machine I’ve ever owned. It’s rock solid, a great Docker introduction and runs a load of small tasks without issue or intervention for a year+ so far.

I’ve been really happy with the DS1618+ we have at work as as well. I especially like that you can use the full size drive bays with SATA SSDs as cache drives. Some other products (Drobo for example) only let you mount cache drives on connectors for that explicit function or purpose.

Anyone know offhand if this year is getting a refresh to the 1618+? I think that Synology has a tick-tock upgrade cadence with consumer product lines getting upgrades in year x, and enterprise products get upgrades in year x+1.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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post #44

I feel like I've missed a meme. What exactly is a homelab?

Assuming you're not trolling, here's a decent intro: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/introduction

Not trolling, I had no idea. Obviously I got it was basically a home server setup but I couldn't see where the term came from.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

#47
post #26

A photo followed by a dozen Amazon referral links kind of rubs me the wrong way, even if I appreciate a nicely put-together setup like that.

The link about "full details" is probably what you're looking for: https://haydenjames.io/home-lab-beginners-guide-hardware/

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

#48
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you're not trolling, here's a decent intro: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/introduction

Not trolling, I had no idea. Obviously I got it was basically a home server setup but I couldn't see where the term came from.

If it helps you feel any better, I've never heard of it before either
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