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Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by calibas »

ashitlerferad wrote: post #110
calibas wrote: post #82

I was impressed by the performance, especially with ExpressJS, and started digging deeper until I noticed "cf-cache-status: HIT". What I'm seeing is not really a "self-hosted website", but a Cloudflare-hosted cache of a self-hosted website. Edit : I wanted to get an idea of the "real" performance, so I went to a non-existent page so the cache would miss. I waited 930ms for a 301, then another 590ms for the 404 page.

Of course it's using cdn/Cloudflare. I live in the Caribbean. Good thing it was! A topic such as Home Lab will see traffic from all over globally. No cdn would be terrible idea. Not sure of you are located but Pingdom test for 404 does not match your claim: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5ca8d73c1e400000 And of course 404 pages will be slower. Because Cloudflare still has to receive the request first, then check origin s…

I understand the need for Cloudflare in this case, I just didn't realize it was being used at first and got rather excited about the prospects of self-hosting. I don't mean to insult, I just got a false impression and wanted to make sure people here knew that the resources aren't really being served by your server, at least in most cases.

I just ran that Pingdom test again, 938ms for the 301 and 3861ms on the 404 on a missed cache. Now that it's in the cache, everything loads in less than 247ms.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by whalesalad »

larrywright wrote: post #89
whalesalad wrote: post #12

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…

Is that an RTL-SDR antenna on the top?

Yes!

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by LeoPanthera »

jlgaddis wrote: post #102
LeoPanthera wrote: post #92

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I wanted to try this too, but my Comcast IPv6 prefix is unstable, and keeps changing. It makes it difficult to even use IPv6 internally, because the LAN tracks the prefix, so addresses keep changing.

If you aren't already aware, you probably want to use Network Prefix Translation (NPT) with Comcast.

I've been told that, and my router is pfSense, which claims that it is possible, but the documentation says something along the lines of "You can use NPT!" and then doesn't explain HOW.

I haven't figured it out yet.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by ashitlerferad »

calibas wrote: post #111
ashitlerferad wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course it's using cdn/Cloudflare. I live in the Caribbean. Good thing it was! A topic such as Home Lab will see traffic from all over globally. No cdn would be terrible idea. Not sure of you are located but Pingdom test for 404 does not match your claim: https://tools.pingdom.com/#5ca8d73c1e400000 And of course 404 pages will be slower. Because Cloudflare still has to receive the request first, then check origin s…

I understand the need for Cloudflare in this case, I just didn't realize it was being used at first and got rather excited about the prospects of self-hosting. I don't mean to insult, I just got a false impression and wanted to make sure people here knew that the resources aren't really being served by your server, at least in most cases. I just ran that Pingdom test again, 938ms for the 301 and 3861ms on the 404 on…

No worries. I understand what you mean. I have not seen high response times (3 secs u report on first request) for 404s yet via Pingdom but then again the site has only 3 or 4 pages so not worried about 404 performance.

Thanks!

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by whalesalad »

simon1573 wrote: post #109
dzelzs wrote: post #99

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You can either manually control the fans with some form of IPMI tools or by disabling the fan offset (needs to be done every reboot though). Then it is actually very bearable, asuming you have good ventilation around it.

Could you expand on this? My SO is about to kick out my home lab due to noise, so lowering the fans RPM would be amazing!

https://gist.github.com/whalesalad/711d57bf4c3a37a5a5a5855c5...

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by whalesalad »

walrus01 wrote: post #94
whalesalad wrote: post #12

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.

This thing is dead silent. I have hard-coded the fans to run at around 1600 rpm (I think they redline around 12-14k rpm)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHz_AIWMc_E

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by lostlogin »

fomine3 wrote: post #104
tomato2juice wrote: post #95

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I've been putting off researching home network/backup devices, because I feel like it is a big decision that I don't know enough about. And they all tend to have bad reviews. Is there a good guide to start researching that isn't a top-ten list with just affiliate links?

Definitely r/homelab links and posts.

> Definitely r/homelab links and posts.

Definitely have a look though the relevant reddit subs and by and large the relavant ones are positive and helpful, eg /datahoarder /synology /homelab. It's good to scan them pre purchase too - for example it's been interesting watch the Western Digital drive issues play out over those subs

There are some off-the-shelf solutions that are expensive and well regarded (eg Synology DS918 DS1019) but expensive. There are a lot of pretty nice systems you'll be able to hack together too. Freenas is excellent in this regard, but it gets into personal favorites very fast.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by whalesalad »

larrywright wrote: post #115
whalesalad wrote: post #112

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Yes!

I thought so! What do you use it for?

I bought it a long time ago back in 2014? to prototype an idea ... then it went into a bin and has been there forever. I discovered it the other day and thought I might be able to use it to try and find what is causing interference for my bluetooth and other wireless devices (logitech univ. reciever). I keep getting these bursts of what I am calling interference throughout the day and would love to figure out what is causing it.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by kohtatsu »

OJFord wrote: post #98
kohtatsu wrote: post #71

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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...

Sure, but that's not (or equivalent to) AdBlock Plus, which is what I was replying to. Specifically, iPhones cannot do in-browser content or domain blocking if the browser is not Safari.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/220/

https://github.com/ShingoFukuyama/AdsBlock_WKWebView_for_iOS...

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