I diagrammed out my home lab/home server setup, mostly to keep a complete overview of how everything connects. I didn’t want to get bogged down in aesthetics around colour scheme, or layout – as you can no doubt tell. After a while diagramming it started to feel like a meme where I was trying to convey some crazy conspiracy theory on a wall of pinned paperwork and connecting threads. I think I am done documenting everything. But now I am wondering how obsessive I should be about detailing every little thing and VLANs and IP assignments. I don’t really care if it looks like a dog’s dinner, I really just care about “okay, where does this wire go to?” Is that the right approach?
This has evolved to a HomeCloud setup.
Home datacenter
Good God, man! On the one hand, I think you are absolutely insane. But on the other, I am completely envious. Rock on!
A homeserver is just a component(s) of your homelab…
HOLY FUCK! Dude so many things I’ve never though of.
Tell me you take adderall without telling me you take adderall. OP was locked in on this one boys.
When I liked have a AD domain and DHCP running on it and the whole Media server part as well. I am working to seperate the two and have running my lab off of old Dell desktops from the servers I was using since my power bill went up. Also anything like my game server, Media Server, and Casa OS server and AD server I have moved to micro PC’s when I feel like blowing stuff up it wont affect the entire house.
It’s always been a home server.
Can you do rm -rf / on everything in your “lab”? Yes: still a lab. No: not a lab.
God damn dude. You are running a medium size office at this point. Not a home lab. Also why did you decide to go with 2 different data center and what’s the purpose of the data center in taxes(I can’t see the text very well from mobile). Also what is your current IP schema for home and DC.
Ohio runs my personal server in a data center. Handles email, personal websites such as justin-lloyd.com (down and to the right if you’re on desktop), offsite-backup. Texas data center is a web application server hosting a “funny pictures” website I am building in my spare time. MS SQL => Kestrel => NGINX = ATS => Android/iOS/Web/Terminal clients.
You are asking the wrong question… when does server become lab (multiple servers).
One man’s way too much shit is another man’s enjoyable hobby.
This isn’t a hobby, it’s a horde /s
Most people have a homeprod… Some of us also have a homeLab! (Modified from an old IT saying)
Bro, you are running a small/medium size office at this point. Not a home lab. This MF has a rack in 2 different data centers. What are you using those racks for? Off side backups? Redundancy?
When it starts to carry any level of production workload from an outside network :)
are you running 9" displays in place of physical photos in frames? Curious how this is setup. Is there a write-up somewhere?
edit: same for “the wall” with the 6x 55" screens.