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My home servers are not a homelab

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Re: My home servers are not a homelab

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Post by vhodges »

How about 'On Premise Micro Data Centre" :-p

Doesn't quite role off the tongue though, not even a good acronym. Maybe Personal Data Centre (pdc)?

There's some cross over with r/selfhosted but that generally includes people hosting things on VPS/Bare metal.

Re: My home servers are not a homelab

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Post by p_ing »

vhodges wrote: post #3

How about 'On Premise Micro Data Centre" :-p Doesn't quite role off the tongue though, not even a good acronym. Maybe Personal Data Centre (pdc)? There's some cross over with r/selfhosted but that generally includes people hosting things on VPS/Bare metal.

Which premise is this based on?

Re: My home servers are not a homelab

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Post by CobaltFire »

I actually really feel this. Before I retired I had a homelab in the learning, testing, experimenting sense. I didn't run anything for home "production" on it because the downtime wasn't appreciated.

Now I have a more capable rack, but it's all just running stuff I use. I don't experiment on it at all, and I don't use it to gain any new skills.

So I do call it a homelab, but its not quite what people understand that to be.

Re: My home servers are not a homelab

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Post by bee_rider »

It is a bit of a shame, IMO, that the concept of an always-on home computer has basically died out, or maybe never even really caught on. A sort of digital shadow of the house, it could run a home email server and do any home automation/content hosting.

Anyway, I think it is unusual enough that it will need describing whatever he calls it, so no need to stress about the name. I’d call it the home computer, haha. Every computer is actually a network of chips anyway nowadays, this one is just physically much larger I guess.

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