Question. I have a home network that's more advanced than your typical house. I started holding back though as I figured when I die my family won't have a clue about all the stuff I have setup. Do you guys ever think about this? I'd hate to leave behind a nightmare for my family members to remove and replace with a regular ISP provided router.
Gah, treasure trove of info. Thank you for sharing! How's the garage rack holding up? I'm so tempted to put some servers in my garage but the heat can get excessive.
Crazy awesome setup! I noticed you had an enphase inverter next to your electrical meter, I assume for solar panels. Would you mind giving details about that system? What size array do you have and how efficient has it been? How are you monitoring the solar systems output?
Hi OP. If you're reading this, I have a few questions:
You're using the Linode box as the server, on which you forward ports for your services. Am I to assume that you somehow access your homelab via your VPN using the Linode box too? Usually people would access their lab at home directly.
Wouldn't a whitebox build for your NAS save power?
What are you using both switches for? Are you running out of ports?
Since you're running VMWare, are you running VMs for every service? Why not containers?
Even if most of the content on your blog is static, how are you hosting it for it to load so quickly? Are you using some sort of CDN in front of your Linode box to cache the static assets like pictures?
It was great reading about your lab. I'll try and follow your blog on RSS if you have a feed. Thanks.
Part of me looks at this man as a system God among us puny and unworthy users.
The other part is saying just keep paying for one drive and Netflix. As the saying goes "the first step to powerbill and uptime hell is the simple plex server"
Like the idea of multi-room UPS. Question, once the UPS battery run out during a power outage, is there any other type of power generation (Solar, Propane or gasoline) as a backup (aware of the servers will consume more watts than it can generate)?
It is a automatic transfer switch, so that in the case of a UPS failure, the power can be transferred to a wall outlet fast enough that you shouldn't experience an outage.