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My Overkill Home Network

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Re: My Overkill Home Network

#141

...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...

I'll have to go over the whole post, I'm terrible at writing! Quite a few errors have been pointed out. But I can just edit them and pretend they never happened

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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THANK YOU! This is perfect!

I haven’t used it in a few years, but one downside of an HE tunnel was that Netflix blocked traffic from it (since people were using it like a VPN to avoid geoblocks). I had to run a DNS proxy to filter out AAAA records for any Netflix domains.

HE and Cogent are still feuding over IPv6 peering, too. Using HE for regular web browsing will work fine, but if you want to host through HE your services might not be reachable to visitors from a Cogent network, e.g. office buildings.

The norm seems to be for hosting services to contract with both HE and Cogent if they decide to go with one of them. This is why for typical client browsing you wouldn't notice--the other side has ensured you can reach them. HE seems to be the cheaper option, so people will route most of their traffic through HE, and then separately contract with Cogent for the smaller amount of traffic originating from/to Cogent networks. Alternatively, you contract with another network provider who handles that idiocy for you.

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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Reading 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.

Your time is too valuable to make ethernet cables. Either punch down to a keystone jack or patch panel, or buy patch cables

Gave up on that years ago

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#146

"This is also how you are probably getting to this blog, which is hosted at home." Curious to know how hitting HN impacted your setup (if at all)!

Not much, because a lot of it is cached by CloudFlare

Total bandwidth over the past 5 hours is 253.37 GB. But total cached and served by CloudFlare is 237.82 GB. Uncached is just 15.54 GB

Here is CPU load on the VM: https://files.networkprofile.org/apps/files_sharing/publicpr...

Networking on the VM: https://files.networkprofile.org/apps/files_sharing/publicpr...

Re: My Overkill Home Network

#147

> The generator is a 27kw Generator which powers everything in the house. This means the UPS's only need at most 10 seconds of runtime, as that's how long it takes for the generator to start and switch That Generac generator though: it powers everything but only in case there's a power outage right? P.S: there's a slight typo in TFA: it's Mellanox, not Mollonox.

Correct, only if there is an outage

Thanks, I'll correct that!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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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!

I have 17kw of solar, so usually very close to $0 or below!

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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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 ...

We don't do heating here in Houston. Maybe for the 2 days of Winter

Re: My Overkill Home Network

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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!

Perhaps there’s solar.

Correct, 17kw of solar on the roof
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