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Home lab beginners guide (2021)
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#142I've never understood why fiddling with IT equipment in your home is considering a "home lab" since you aren't necessarily creating anything (like a laboratory would do), you are just integrating together other people's industrial components to serve non business purposes. The most egregious factor of this hobby is that you are often buying equipment that costs enterprise prices with your own money, whether or not it…
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#143Anyone else annoyed at how narrow the term Homelab really is relative to what it could be? Any scientific or maker hobbies could take place in a "home lab," from breeding seedlings, to soldering and electronics work, to 3D printing. But it really means just networking and servers? Seems too narrow to me.
>Anyone else annoyed at how narrow the term Homelab really is relative to what it could be?
I wasn't before I read this thread!
I mean, my "home lab" are old computers from 2008 to 2016 and half of what I "do" involves simply testing what weird installations (eg netbsd) I can get up and running. It's for tinkering -playing; the "lab" part coming from experimentation: "What happens when I do this...?"
I agree when it comes to the definition being to narrow. Then again, I mostly engage with it on /r/homelab and the HN attitude seems to be much more restrictive...too restrictive for my tastes, personally.
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#144I've never understood why fiddling with IT equipment in your home is considering a "home lab" since you aren't necessarily creating anything (like a laboratory would do), you are just integrating together other people's industrial components to serve non business purposes. The most egregious factor of this hobby is that you are often buying equipment that costs enterprise prices with your own money, whether or not it…
Meh. My motorcycle is ostensibly for use in endurance racing. I use it to go out for coffee and sandwiches.
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#145Anyone else annoyed at how narrow the term Homelab really is relative to what it could be? Any scientific or maker hobbies could take place in a "home lab," from breeding seedlings, to soldering and electronics work, to 3D printing. But it really means just networking and servers? Seems too narrow to me.
I often wish, that this kind of thing would be called something more like home datacenter
/r/homeserver ?
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#146I manage a network of a few hundred multi-layer switches, several routers, and a couple thousand wireless access points across a couple dozen campuses. My home network is an Eero. The network engineer’s kids have no homelab, as it were. Occasionally, I get the urge to build out a proper homelab but quickly realize I don’t want to come home and deal with the same stuff and put the Eero back in. It’s not that I don’t l…
I feel as I get older I have less and less desire to geek out at home, especially now with Covid/WFH. When I log off for the day I really don’t want to go back upstairs to my home office to do anything.
I used to have a FreeBSD server running pf and jails to partition out services. Now I simplified everything with a little tiny Ubiquti cube that I use an app on my phone to control.
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#147I've never understood why fiddling with IT equipment in your home is considering a "home lab" since you aren't necessarily creating anything (like a laboratory would do), you are just integrating together other people's industrial components to serve non business purposes. The most egregious factor of this hobby is that you are often buying equipment that costs enterprise prices with your own money, whether or not it…
Because you're experimenting.
what happens when I use this combination, what would it take to be able to get this group of computers to do that task
And learning also fits into this: like the computer version of a school chemistry laboratory. Setting up computers to perform tests for certification.
For what it's worth I agree with you about the equipment -but I read on reddit a lot of /r/homelabbers getting equipment for work so that would make sense.
I don't work in the field so for me personally it's more a question of wanting to experiment with software while not throwing away perfectly working (but old) computers.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Verizon FIOS and Comcast/Xfinity already offer 2+ Gbps, plus AT&T and Frontier.
Maybe in your area, but it's extremely far from typical.
Heh, yep. Where I live, Comcast is the only choice and they know it. I pay $60/mo to get 25Mb down. And pushing bits upstream is so slow that I have to schedule any "big" uploads to start around bedtime.
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#149This is really cool. I’ve been wanting to build my own lab, but I’m a bit worried about power consumption. If I do build something, then it would probably be something I power up and down as required.
That said, are there “Cloud” versions of this? Can I get my feet wet that way?
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#150This is really cool. I’ve been wanting to build my own lab, but I’m a bit worried about power consumption. If I do build something, then it would probably be something I power up and down as required. That said, are there “Cloud” versions of this? Can I get my feet wet that way?
> I’ve been wanting to build my own lab, but I’m a bit worried about power consumption.
I’ve been concerned about this too. Initially I wasn’t worried, but in some arguments some people have warned me that even a single rack can incur significant monthly bill increases. I have a lot of retro hard too which I imagine is less power efficient.