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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

#81

I need a silent ECC server. Doesn't need to be super powerful but I'd rather have at most one fan. Any advice?

Some Ryzen chips (I think- might be TR) often support ECC- see if you can find a compatible mobo that supports ECC modules and Ryzen sand! When I last checked there were a few products out there

I've just checked and there's some mobos for $60 with ECC. Is that for real? Supermicro costs like $1000, half that for refurbished.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#82
post #8

Nice 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!

energy bill might go up, but the heating bill goes down ...

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some Ryzen chips (I think- might be TR) often support ECC- see if you can find a compatible mobo that supports ECC modules and Ryzen sand! When I last checked there were a few products out there

I've just checked and there's some mobos for $60 with ECC. Is that for real? Supermicro costs like $1000, half that for refurbished.

Without looking at the listing I can't earnestly say what you're seeing isn't fake but I know back when I had the same question you're asking here I saw similar offerings. Ultimately I bought a used ITX supermicro mobo+CPU combo unit from eBay for like $200

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#84
post #58

Is there a post that covers the "why?" of all this? As someone researching maybe running some Ethernet for more stable WiFi and faster Internet access for general stuff, maybe some fiber for infotainment other purposes since it can lengthen various cables, and hooking up some security and nature cameras, I can't fathom why all of this is needed outside of it just being a hobby or running some sort of business (tradin…

Speaking personally, it's just another form of tinkering. Nobody HAS to do it, much like nobody has to buy and maintain their own computer, car, home, etc... We do it because we can and it makes us happy. Extra note- I would NEVER recommend a business use their home resources for work unless you know what you're doing (and why you're doing it). Even my homelab has vulnerabilities and I'm a security professional- more…

Pretty much this. I wanted to learn about networking and server management that I no longer get to do as part of my day job.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#85
post #10

All that and no mention of IPv6? At least get the basics down first.

Looks like they've got dual-wan (at&t fiber + verizon 5G backup). It's pretty easy to do ipv4 failover with NAT as long as you've got an indication that it needs doing; ipv6 failover is a lot harder; unless you're going to NAT the v6 traffic too. I don't know about Apple devices, but I couldn't get Android or Windows to play nice with two v6 ranges in radvd. They wouldn't listen to priority, and they would do derpy things like pick an address from one router's advertisement and then send the traffic to the other router.

In some magic happy land where you can use your IPv6 prefix over both WANs, then yeah, things can work, but that doesn't work for residences, generally.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#86
post #58

Is there a post that covers the "why?" of all this? As someone researching maybe running some Ethernet for more stable WiFi and faster Internet access for general stuff, maybe some fiber for infotainment other purposes since it can lengthen various cables, and hooking up some security and nature cameras, I can't fathom why all of this is needed outside of it just being a hobby or running some sort of business (tradin…

Most of the time it's the IT Infrastructure, Operations, Security guys that love to do this for (WHY) learning, testing and as a hobby. Check out r/homelab and r/selfhosted for more on this.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#87
post #8

Nice 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!

energy bill might go up, but the heating bill goes down ...

"Chestnuts roasting on an open server rack"

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#88
post #53

SpeedTest.net tests are useless, as ISPs give higher priority to traffic to known speed checkers. They can legally do that as we don't have Net Neutrality anymore.

Is this true? Do you have a link?

I used to work for a small ISP. The boss specifically wanted speed tests to be exempted from traffic shaping.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#89
post #8

Nice 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!

energy bill might go up, but the heating bill goes down ...

Great for the arctic circle.
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