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More random home lab things I've recently learned

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Re: More random home lab things I've recently learned

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Post by walthamstow »

srjilarious wrote: post #10

I just learned about the whole homelab thing a week ago; it's a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected. I'm planning to setup ProxMox today for the first time in fact and retire my Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well for last couple years. I hadn't heard about mealie yet, but sounds like a great one to install.

I have Proxmox running on top of a clean Debian install on my NUC, I wanted to allow Plex to use the hardware decoding and it got a bit funny trying to do that with Plex running in a VM, so it runs on the host and I use VMs for other stuff

Re: More random home lab things I've recently learned

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Post by woodrowbarlow »

immibis wrote: post #9

I've recently learned that "homelab" is a specific thing meaning you run certain software (like Proxmox), and not a generic term for running a 'server lab' at home.

some people think it's not "homelabbing" unless you're doing things the way it's done at large scale. i think these people are aiming to enter IT as a career and consider a homelab to be a resume project.

but proxmox and kubernetes are overkill, imo, for most homelab setups. setting them up is a good learning experience but not necessarily an appropriate architecture for maintaining a few mini PCs in a closet long term.

you can ignore the gatekeeping.

Re: More random home lab things I've recently learned

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Post by ryandrake »

Not sure I understand the need to use a Raspberry Pi here. They're cool and all, but wouldn't a regular old PC be simpler to setup, maintain, and attach hardware to? It's a hobby--and you can do whatever you want, but I wouldn't involve a Pi in a home server setup unless I specifically needed something it bought me, like the small form factor, low power usage, GPIO pins and so on.

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Post by wltr »

srjilarious wrote: post #10

I just learned about the whole homelab thing a week ago; it's a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected. I'm planning to setup ProxMox today for the first time in fact and retire my Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well for last couple years. I hadn't heard about mealie yet, but sounds like a great one to install.

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Re: More random home lab things I've recently learned

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Post by Havoc »

Aurornis wrote: post #7
Havoc wrote: post #4

My most recent learning - DDR4 ECC UDIMMs are comically expensive. To the point where I considered just replacing the entire platform with something RDIMM rather than swapping to ECC sticks. >No space left on device. >In other words, you can lock yourself out of PBS. That’s… a design. Run PBS in LXC with the base on a zfs dataset with dedup & compression turned off. If it bombs you can increase disk size in proxmox &…

> My most recent learning - DDR4 ECC UDIMMs are comically expensive. To the point where I considered just replacing the entire platform with something RDIMM rather than swapping to ECC sticks. DDR4 anything is becoming very expensive right now because manufacturers have been switching over to DDR5.

Yeah, built on AM4 and in hindsight spending more on mobo & CPU to hop on AM5 would have been the smart move. Live & learn.

On the plus side I have a lot of non-ECC DDR4 sticks that I'm dumping into the expensive market rn

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Post by tom1337 »

srjilarious wrote: post #10

I just learned about the whole homelab thing a week ago; it's a much deeper rabbit hole than I expected. I'm planning to setup ProxMox today for the first time in fact and retire my Ubuntu Server setup running on a NUC that's been serving me well for last couple years. I hadn't heard about mealie yet, but sounds like a great one to install.

If you want to go another, related rabbit hole, check out the DataHoarder subreddit. But don't blame me, if you’re buying terabytes of storage over the next few months :)

Re: More random home lab things I've recently learned

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Post by fartfeatures »

ryandrake wrote: post #14

Not sure I understand the need to use a Raspberry Pi here. They're cool and all, but wouldn't a regular old PC be simpler to setup, maintain, and attach hardware to? It's a hobby--and you can do whatever you want, but I wouldn't involve a Pi in a home server setup unless I specifically needed something it bought me, like the small form factor, low power usage, GPIO pins and so on.

I always need lower power consumption. I'm in the UK and my power costs are $0.40 per kWh. Even running a raspberry pi 5 24/7 would cost me $25 per year

Re: More random home lab things I've recently learned

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Post by icyfox »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

One of my favorite CyberPower perks is their RMCARDs for network monitoring: It's a separate module that works in basically all of their rackmount UPSes. You can replace the entire UPS without having to pay for the little mini web server again, it'll just pop right into the new unit.

It's a neat chip but I couldn't bring myself to spend in excess of the price of the UPS ($439.00 for RMCARD at time of writing). I ended up hooking my UPS via USB to my existing home server via NUT and it's been working well.
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