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If people are showing off a lab. My lab always sparks a conversation. I wanted to prove I could beat twilio's texting rates. https://i.imgur.com/gKknrJn.jpg
I haven't self-hosted a website in a long time. Do you still need a static IP in order to do so, or do you have some kind of service that updates the IP? How does it interact with DNS?
Something I want to experiment with is IPv6 DNS. IPv6 has enough address space that individual devices are universally uniquely addressable. With an AAAA record you can point DNS at an IPv6 address. So I want to try setting DNS to point to a specific device... though I haven't gotten around to it yet.
It makes it difficult to even use IPv6 internally, because the LAN tracks the prefix, so addresses keep changing.
If people are showing off a lab. My lab always sparks a conversation. I wanted to prove I could beat twilio's texting rates. https://i.imgur.com/gKknrJn.jpg
I worked in telco in Indonesia where this type of thing is taken to the next level. Back in the day you would walk into a rooms filled with racks full of phones for SMS / Airtime sales "optimisation". I tried to google some pictures now but it turns out Im behind the times. They've gotten rid of the phone part completely! [0] Now you just buy the sim cards and let modems do the rest.. [0] http://modempool.net/wp-cont…
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…
My home test xen hypervisor is an older Dell desktop mid-tower workstation dual socket/8-core xeon, because it's reasonably quiet.
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> 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…
Is there a good guide to start researching that isn't a top-ten list with just affiliate links?
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Care to share more details? Interested in the software stack, and what you use it all for. This is really intriguing. I'm currently running a SFF machine as a server, and thought about adding some Pi devices to play around with a local kubernetes cluster.
It was a fun project - but I wouldn't use old cellphones. Having these old cellphones plugged in all day - basically just made the batteries enlarge and broke the casing. But you can get old android phones for nothing -- even cheaper than a raspberry pi.
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I don't know where it comes from, but the distinction's basically 'when a home server becomes home servers', or at least becomes a hobby, as opposed to just setting up and forgetting a Pi-hole once or something.
Originally, a "home lab" is specifically for learning and testing, primarily for professional reasons: i.e. someone going for a Cisco networking certification might get a stack of old Cisco routers and build test environments with them, someone learning windows networks might setup a windows domain on multiple PCs, ... It's kind of morphed and people fold their home "production" environments into the term too.
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Some not very technical reasons: 1) Run once, use everywhere. (Including devices without a browser, like an Android/Apple/'smart' TV.) 2) iPhones. 3) Configure alongside rest of networking, not clicking buttons to manually sync within browsers of the same type.
iPhones can run DNS blockers locally[1], and Apple has a good API for privacy-preserving content blocking[2]. [1] https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dnscloak-secure-dns-client/id1... [2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
Specifically, iPhones cannot do in-browser content or domain blocking if the browser is not Safari.
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…
Don't you find the R720 to be astonishingly loud for something to keep at home? 1U/2U size servers are not really designed to be quiet. Maybe if it's way out in a far corner of your garage or basement somewhere... My home test xen hypervisor is an older Dell desktop mid-tower workstation dual socket/8-core xeon, because it's reasonably quiet.