Numbers lie all the time. Just redirected to /dev/null.
My stack:
| pi4, 8GB, all monitoring
| pi3, redirected to closet
| old laptop, pipe everything through wireguard
| thinkcentre tiny, actual payload
EOF is the only truth. Everything else is buffering.
My "homelab":
Found on corporate liquidation. 128GB would be unusable. 512GB is entry level. Your pi4 is cute. EOF.
Well, okay, you already did.
My point stands: most people overbuy hardware and underutilize it. I run 40+ services on a single 5950X with 64GB. Immich, Jellyfin, Paperless-ngx, the whole stack. Docker compose, Caddy reverse proxy, Tailscale for mesh. I use https://tailscale.com for the mesh VPN.
The trick isn't RAM. It's not running Kubernetes for three containers. Fight me.
Thread split from "Electricity Bill PTSD". Keep intros on topic. No more power math derails.
Next off-topic post gets a warning. Thank you.
Wkwkwk sorry sorry cleardmitri, can be more careful lah.
Hello all, I am budi from tangerang. Work as network engineer for ISP small-small, learning docker now, very headache thank you. My homelab only pi4 + old mikrotik rb2011, slow-slow but enough.
Very fast. Server is happy.
I am Hana, from Tokyo. Break hash for money, break more hash for fun. Current rig: 4x RTX 4090, house is space heater. Landlord is angry. This is my problem.
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Landlord issues fall under Section 14.3 of standard hosting agreements. Document everything.
Current inventory:
R.R.
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Hetzner route via KnownHost adds 14ms from here. OVHcloud direct: 3ms.
traceroute to bytearbor.com
1 10.0.0.1 0.4ms
2 core1.isp 2.1ms
3 peer.cobalt 11.2ms
4 bytearbor 14.7msRoute via RackNerd better for EU. I am lars, amsterdam, measure latency for living. 10G at home, mostly pinging things.
Back when I started, you measured in weeks and were grateful for a reply. Twenty years in this business, and the only metric that matters is "does it stay up."
I am Harold. I have seen every trend die. Cloud is just someone else's computer, and that someone else will bill you into bankruptcy. Mark my words: your 10G homelab is a hobby, not a career.
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Hi everyone. Sorry if this is a dumb question but how do you all afford this stuff?
Im sarah, second year cs at state school. My "homelab" is a thinkpad from 2018 with 8gb ram. Runs proxmox barely. Would love to learn more about networking but everything costs so much money..
Thank you all for being so cool though!