My Overkill Home Network

Side effect of introducing less noise into AV equipment is a nice bonus!

If I hit it big, I'll make an apartment with an attached datacenter and a quarter rack available for colo per unit

there's no kill like overkill! i thought this was going to be pretty meh, but indeed it was amazing. my favorite:

> Raspberry Pi 3B+ NTP server with GPS/PPS time source

Just one though? I have a triple LeoNTP device. Terminated my own cables to outdoor GPS antennae. Been working on designing my own but it's slow going.

I also have UPS power routed elsewhere in the house. But just to 1 room, where I had a powered ISDN phone. I couldn't find an ISDN phone I liked that took power from the line, if that's even a thing. I don't remember as that's ancient history now and I don't use the remote 240v power at all, just PoE everywhere.

The one thing missing is EPO (Emergency Power Off). I built my data closet into the garage, stealing part of a garage bay. It is the size of a smaller sauna room. I have an EPO on the outside, wired to the UPS.

I added card access to the data closet last year, because I also added it to the outside entries of the house, and I had one controller port left over.

I don't have nearly as much switching, and no fiber. But many servers. I would buy an 0xide rack if they weren't $500k.

I don't either but certainly it's a big part of it since I rarely have seen a US household without some sort of cooling and of course heating. Add to that we have larger houses than Europe, like larger.

A part time job of mine is helping a buddy's solar company and right now I'm working on a project, for an older couple who are building a 4200sqft house with 4 mini-splits, 2 electric boilers that switch to gas when it's cold, 3 refrigerators, 2 deep freezes and a potential future electric vehicle. There's a pool too but that changes the dynamics of the system greatly but I don't design and quote that unless they really want to spend $$$.

I'm glad they're deciding to go solar but I see this so often it hurts. An older couple without kids in a giant house in the desert that requires immense heating and cooling wants some solar to help offset their gross over consumption. Rather than scale down to a, still large, 2000sqft high efficiency house they go with cheap construction so they have more than enough space for the one time a year all the family shows up. Oh yah then they fill it with crap that's rarely if ever used.

There's no judgement thrown to the customer as this is the reality of the world we live in, but I see this as seriously problematic. Especially going forward as these older individuals die. Can a family of 4 or 6 afford that place? Do they even want a place so large which requires such an inordinate amount of maintenance? Three 1400sqft high efficiency homes could be built on approximately that same space bringing down the price of the home, reducing maintenance and providing more than one couple space to live.

Sorry, that was more of a rant than anything. Europe is not the promised land but the US really has some screwy priorities when it comes to housing.

Go with Proxmox, you'll love it even more