I could do all that with a single ddwrt router behind my tv
My Overkill Home Network
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#32I didn’t read in details. Why esxi is not incorporating whatever that’s on the rpis?
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
as long as you're good that pfsense is not open and phones home.
and that BSD still cannot do line speed gigabit on an Intel gigabit nic.
I dunno if this is entirely true- my current pfSense router gets as close to line speed as I'll ever be able to get with my setup (~900 both ways to a test server in Chicago and on LAN) and I'm running an (overkill) i5 in my generic Chinese minipc. It's possible that I don't have Intel NICs but I swear I do
Got anything more I can read? Dunno if I'm just blind but I couldn't find anything on this. I'd like to learn more!
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#34Nice and clean, great work! If you don't mind me asking, does your energy bill take a huge blow because of this? I had a modest homelab set up and had to start shutting things off due to how much it costs to keep it running I apologize if I missed this info in the blog!
Perhaps there’s solar.
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#35Nice and clean, great work! If you don't mind me asking, does your energy bill take a huge blow because of this? I had a modest homelab set up and had to start shutting things off due to how much it costs to keep it running I apologize if I missed this info in the blog!
Having a rack alone doesn't consume anything, it's what you put on the rack.
I have a rack setup and most of the time it consumes around 200 watts during the daytime and 100 watts at night, but can spike upto 600 watts if I put a heavy CPU+GPU load on it.
I also put my desktop into suspend at night, something which I think a lot more people with desktops could do. Don't run 24/7 services (e.g. Home Assistant) on your massive desktop with an i7/i9 and a GPU. Run that stuff on a NUC or Pi4 or anything that has low power consumption. Then turn your desktop on only when you're actually using it.
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#36Nice and clean, great work! If you don't mind me asking, does your energy bill take a huge blow because of this? I had a modest homelab set up and had to start shutting things off due to how much it costs to keep it running I apologize if I missed this info in the blog!
Perhaps there’s solar.
That would definitely be a big help, lol. I also imagine part of my problem is my house wiring- the previous owner had the place reno'd in '96 and clearly got the landlord special
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#37...and I thought mine was overkill! Great job!
You might however want to read about the grocer's apostrophe: https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/apostrophe_error_wit...
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#38I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.
It’s a black hole for your wallet. Once you start. You can’t stop. But I also now have a bunch of electrician tools for running wires, some private cameras that aren’t google or Amazon spying on everyone that walks by, and a network that isn’t bogged down by a couple people watching Netflix. And I have plans for MORE.
What cameras do you use?
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#39I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.
It can be reasonable if you wait for good 2nd hand deals on equipment, especially from startups shutting down.
My 10G switch with PoE and 4 SFP+ ports cost only $100, for example, while many new products with similar specs cost $600+.
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#40Reading this post makes me happy we are in the world of cloud providers, but realize they don’t magically work. People build them. I’m glad I don’t.
It’s really not all that complicated. Although I still haven’t figured out if there’s some secret way to properly creating working Ethernet cables.
I get blisters on blisters on my finger tips when making lots of cables.