• 0 Posts
  • 23 Comments
Joined 10 months ago
cake
Cake day: February 12th, 2025

help-circle


  • Mine is primarily a 4u server, in a rack. That’s screwed to the wall (for added stability).

    They’d need a couple guys to unrack it. It’s in the garage I rarely ever lock, behind the cars which are more valuable and easier to steal. Behind the much more valuable tools.

    Garage does get warm in the summer and cold enough in the winter the fans do funny things.

    Anything important gets replicated to another location as well as backed up to a cloud bucket. So if it got stolen it would suck, but not the end of the world.








  • I used to really like esxi, but broadcom screwed us on that.

    Hyper-v sucks to run and manage. It’s also pretty bloated.

    Proxmox is pretty awesome if you want full VMs. I’m gonna move everything I have onto it eventually.

    For ease of use, if you have Synology that can run containers, it’s okay.

    I also like and tend to use unraid at my house, but that’s more because of my insane storage requirements and how I upgrade with dissimilar disks fairly frequently. (I’m just shy of 500tb and my server holds 38 disks.)




  • Haha. Thanks. I really didn’t want to pay Netflix or any other streaming service. But it might have been cheaper than hdds and electricity.

    This is something I’ve been building for over 10 years at this point. I’ve gone through so many iterations of servers and storage architecture. I’ve lost my entire TV and movie library multiple times. (I don’t back it up because a. It’s expensive at this scale and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.)

    It’s been a part of learning about hosting and data management that I’ve brought to/from my work.