Carl

I rack gear in Chicago, not cloud. But I have used dehydrated on a Pi for internal certs. Good tool, but the bash syntax makes me want to cry.

For bare metal with actual RAID cards, I just buy DigiCert or Sectigo multi-year. Labor costs more than the...

Did anyone actually test the conduit vs synapse bandwidth claim? I migrated a small homeserver last year and federation traffic barely moved. The protocol overhead is the protocol overhead.

What *did* move the needle was dropping full-size originals in immich. Keep the raw in cold storage, let the...

Been shopping for a cheap box to colo at my buddy's place but figured I'd check what's out there turnkey first. $25-30 is what I used to pay for a E3 v3 back in 2019. Wondering if that's still doable in 2026 for something that won't cook itself in a month.

Looking for:
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[*]Real IPMI (not this...

Used market, my friend. I picked up a 5600x with board and 32GB for $180 on facebook marketplace last month. Sold the board for $40 because I already had one. $140 for a cpu that idles at 35W and turbos to 4.6GHz.

Your optiplex 9020s are what, hasw...

Zabbix poller got nuked by DDoS filter at 3am. 2U Supermicro X11, dual E5-2680v4, 128GB. Filter saw sustained 800pps from monitor node and dropped it. Took 45min to get IPMI going because I was lazy and used same path.

Never again. Separate management VLAN on dedicated NIC, separate switch....

Actually your Incident response policy should include PetAccessControl, oder?

Contexte: serveur dédié chez InterServer Secaucus depuis 18 mois. Facturation toujours en hors-TVA luxembourgeoise (17%), je récupère via mon numéro TVA intra-communautaire.

Facture du 13/08/2026: soudainement 20% de TVA française ajoutée. 147€ de plus. Aucun préavis.

Ticket ouvert chez eux. Répon...

Some of you need to learn about power efficiency

That 340W closet is burning money. A single modern ryzen 9 7950x at 65W eco mode will outperform that whole pile and sip power doing it.

I've got a 12U startech open frame in the garage. Proper 20A circuit, dedicated 30A pdu, cable management arms o...

Can't run prometheus, so what

I've got a gen9 microserver at a remote colo, 8W idle, 16GB total. Prometheus alone wanted 2GB just to exist. Scraped it.

Tried netdata. 150MB. Better. Still annoyed me.

Ended up with node_exporter + a 20-line shell script curling to a central box. 12MB. Survives on...

If youre dropping 11k on IPs you better have hardware that justifies it

My last pallet was 12x Dell R630, dual E5-2680v4, 128GB each. Whole pallet $3400 with rails. Draw 180W idle, 340W loaded. Fit 24U in a 42U cabinet at my RackNerd colo, $15/U/month so $15/month for the rack.

/24 on top of that...