Here’s my beautiful unemployed-for-too-long-have-no-money-dont-care-about-looks lab :)
Hey it’s more than good enough to run all this ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Such professional. Much clean.
Not pictured: my raspberry running adguard. It’s tucked behind a TV, because it also runs Kodi.
That 95% unused switch 😱
Such electricity waste. Much unclean.
The used 48 port was cheaper than the used 24 port.
You call it waste, I call it reuse.
But you seem to only need a 8 port at most 🤯
It is a MANAGED switch, my guy. A simple 8 port switch would not work here.
I have multiple VLANs running.
Also, one of those connections is a 10gbe DAC to the big machine which is my NAS and main server.
Not too many 8 port managed switches out there with an sfp+ 10gbe port for 50 bucks, which is what I paid for that Brocade switch in my picture.
But hey, if you feel like buying one for me, I’ll happily take it, and start using it instead.
Not too many 8 port managed switches out there with an sfp+ 10gbe port for 50 bucks
Easy to get these days actually, with 10gbit sfp+ and 8x 2.5gbit, managed switches. About $60.
But my actual argument was that your 48 port switch eats electricity like crazy. That aint a cheap switch at all.
The only brand new, 10gbe managed switches that I can find for less than 60 bucks are off-brand chinese junk. No thank you.
As far as electricity cost goes? After doing that math, it might cost me a dollar fifty a year to use. That machine sitting on the bottom is a much bigger chunk than the switch itself, as it has 6 7200rpm SAS drives in it. Plus it’s a Xeon E3 CPU.
Those drives, each, use as much electricity as that switch does, even before considering the CPU itself.
It’s a work in progress!A little late to the party, but here’s mine.
Oh yeah, now that’s a HOMElab
What are the specs on that pepsi box? How’s it handle the load???
It’s only the mini Pepsi cans iirc, so they aren’t as load bearing as I’d like. God willing, I’ll upgrade to fanta boxes one day.
Love it.
people put too much “lab” and not enough “home” in homelab. we need more dust, more cables, more jank. love this.
This is the best thread so far. Really enjoying seeing peoples setups! Thanks @northernlights@lemmy.today !
When did people start using the term ‘lab’ for this sort of thing, and why?
I think because it lets them see themselves as scientists or so
This guy home labs 😂
more dust
Believe it or not I cleaned before taking the pic lol
I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(
How dejected could you be when you can bring someone such joy?
Dust and jank you say? Behold, my old basement homelab when I rented just outside Boston with a very permissive landlord who agreed to let me have Comcast gig pro fiber pulled into the basement, running off an outlet I installed without asking on a free slot in our breaker box. The dust was terrible, the rack was a hodge podge, I had to put up that sign because maintenance guys kept plugging their power tools into the UPS when I wasn’t around and tripping it. But Comcast fucked up the billing and the 2gig + 1gig symmetric internet is still active to this day for free, which I left behind minimally working for the next tenants after parting out the rack. The tower by the side was a friend who wanted to colocate on my fiber, and I had some fun stuff like a slide out vga console. I also pulled Ethernet into every room, most of them installed with nice wall plates all bundled down to the rack, so with a house full of gamers, you could have multiple people pulling a gig on a game download without anyone stepping on anyone else’s toes.
Dang that’s the dream. Never move out :D
Very nice. You guys with all the toys. I bet she’s fun tho.
That desk is about a million times cleaner than mine.
the hardrive just out in the wild, living life like it was meant to be lived.
What are its natural predators?
gravity
beverages
drunk sysadmins
Spill your beer on it and get all three in one go!
Cats and very young humans
Keys, paperclips and coins… they kinda work their way towards the PCB and short out crtitical things
The home server under my desk. Very professional, as you can see.
Buco seems to be having a good time. 9/10, unsure how Eaton feels.
The Eaton unit is a UPS that’s connected to the whole setup. It works really well, I can recommend it.
Oooh that’s neat.
Hard-drives deserve to be free to their cases! Free the drives!
¯_(ツ)_/¯
You want a double-backslash in Markdown.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯yields
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Whereas:
¯\\_(ツ)_/¯yields
¯\(ツ)/¯
Indeed, I really should have caught that.
You need to add backslashes to your underscores since Markdown is turning them into italics.
¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯yields
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Thanks!
In a walk-in closet. Hdd laying on power cable to reduce vibration, works unexpectedly good.
What’s that web interface thing? Is it home made? I keep thinking about doing something like that to save me having to remember port numbers for the different services on my home server.
It’s just heimdall.
Projects that im running:
General Web server out of junk
Old system 76 machine from a while back. Its what is running a majority of my services for self hosting. Only one screw keeps the case together, since I get into the insides quite often.
Solar powered web server on a phone
Solar powered web server. Its going to be repurposed into a meshtastic node soon.
Ebook reader on a heltek v3
Somewhat jank setup of a heltek which is also an ebook reader. It runs a webserver to upload the book in txt format, then I can take it on the go. I still have to do some work on the text.
That ebook reader is wild! Does the text stay in place while you read, or does it scroll past like a stock ticker?
If the latter doesn’t exist, I guess I should go push a PR to make that happen on meshcore firmware haha
Stays in place. It was a weekend project so I still need to do some work on the text in particular. Im not sure if ill go any farther, but the code is here if you want to take a look.
Old system 76 machine from a while back. Its what is running a majority of my services for self hosting. Only one screw keeps the case together, since I get into the insides quite often.
If you get bored and adventurous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_case_screws
Computer case screws are the hardware used to secure parts of a PC to the case. Although there are numerous manufacturers of computer cases, they have generally used three thread sizes.
The #6-32 UNC screws are often found on 3.5" hard disk drives and the case’s body to secure the covers. The M3 threaded holes are often found on 5.25" optical disc drives, 3.5" floppy drives, and 2.5" drives. Motherboards and other circuit boards often use a #6-32 UNC standoff. #4-40 UNC thumb screws are often found on the ends of DVI, VGA, serial and parallel connectors.
You might be able to get a box of thumbscrews in the appropriate diameter and go toolless. I’ve had a number of computer cases that ship with those (my current desktop case just uses magnets, doesn’t even have the thumbscrews). I have had a lot of less-than-ideal toolless things in the past, including poorly-designed toolless hard drive mounting stuff that wound up being a lot more work than the traditional tool-requiring stuff, but for the screws that keep the case closed, going toolless has always been a big win for me.
Thats good to know! Although if I am honest, ill probably just repurpose my current desktop that I am using for this conversation and get a new one if I end up re-doing my homeservers again.
Last thing I want to do is more work at home. So these are just “for fun” projects. If im not having fun, I start removing things from the setup.
Now that’s a crafty homelab, love it
The best homelab is the one you already have.
The second best is the one you want to buy :D
Is that a PI in your setup?
Yeah it’s just haproxy + uptime kuma
Okay I’ll bite.
Re: the cabling up top there, there’s some Reddit subreddit devoted solely to people showing off their spiffy cable-routing.
searches
Might be:
https://old.reddit.com/r/CableManagement/top/?sort=top&t=all
Though that looks like in-PC-case cabling. I thought that it dealt more with network cables.
searches more
Ah. I think this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/cableporn/top/?sort=top&t=all
It looks like we do have a !cableporn@lemmy.world, but basically nobody is posting.
Oh man, your server has its own closet!
Dang so very jealous. When I finally get a job i’m so building a little datacenter in my walking closet :D
hell yeah.
Did someone ask for jank, dust, and cables?
This looks like an after-work special. Nice setup. That APC is awesome. I need to get a new one.
Hey, shock-absorbing floor, stable structure to put the servers on, and a UPS. I bet that’s much better than the vast majority of us (1st thing I buy when I get a job is a UPS).
Classic blue 5-port gigabit switch. Chef’s kiss!
These things will be with us until the heat death of the universe. Still chugging along.
Right? Took it from a job I left 10 years ago.
Those HP Elitedesks are all over Amazon as refurbished machines. I was actually considering getting one earlier today for a server.
Love 'em. Medical offices around me are selling them like hotcakes, fed up of Win11’s promises of being capable of delivering a light terminal.
