My home server is definitely also a lab. Like they say, everyone has a dev environment; some people are lucky enough to also have a prod environment
My home servers are not a homelab
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Re: My home servers are not a homelab
#12Just call it a puddle :)
1. No fault tolerance or high availability
2. It can evaporate just as quickly as it formed
3. Same contents as the cloud (plus some local contaminants)
On a serious note: I wish more of the homelab community was focused on self-hosting (puddles should be awesome!), but it seems to mostly be folks justifying the purchase of large amounts of used equipment for “education” (internet points).
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#13Yeah I've posted a few times here and there that selfhosting and homelabbing are different concepts with different goals. You might use the same hardware but what solutions you choose will differ based on your goals.
For instance, I'd argue homelabbing with Kubernetes makes sense, selfhosting with Kubernetes is stupid. Because the only reason you should ever run that at home is practice for work.
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#14Home rack!
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#15How 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?
Sorry, did I get it wrong? I only ever see it as onprem ;).
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#16If home data center than this gentleman takes the crown https://youtu.be/-b3t37SIyBs
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#17Domicile servers?
I took from the article that the term homelab makes it sound like the use case is trite, hobbyist or not serious.
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#18It's pedantic - it's what's known as a homelab.
I have one at home, too, running pricetracker.wtf, among other things.
It has a 56G network switch i will never be able to saturate, more compute than i'll probably need.
Looking to add 24 disk JBOD - i will never probably saturate or fill either.
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#19I'm in the homeprod camp. The lab is on the other side of the room with the scope etc. Although come to think of it most of the electronics I do these days is fixing things, so maybe that should be considered production too. argh.
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#20A perfect example of creating problems out of nowhere. Does OP have nothing productive to say other than dunking on the term? Since when does "homelab" resemble to anything concrete?
Edit: Looking at your "de-googling" post, which resembles a lot of privacy theatre, this just seems like nothing more than an attention grab