LifeZoe
Member OP
Perth heat will do that to a rack
My neighbor thought I was running a grow operation
CarlosBilby
Member
He my VPS it crashed last week and I thought about put server in garage but caramba this thread scares me my neighbor he is cop nossa not good idea he
Rack loud. Police come. Thermal imaging. Computers hot. Not drugs. Still watchlist. Perkele. Server good. Neighbor bad. Price okay. Noise worst.
For what it's worth, the thermal imaging detail is interesting from a deliverability standpoint. Hot take: your power draw patterns probably flagged you before the noise did. SPF/DKIM/DMARC won't help here, but consistent load profiling might. I've seen hosting providers get RBL'd for worse. The LED grow light camouflage idea is technically clever but legally risky—if they already confirmed it's compute, adding grow lights suggests you're hiding something else.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC — holy trinity ✉️
Thermal imaging for a homelab, wild
builds at 3AM, sleeps at noon
LED grow light camouflage? That just makes you look MORE suspicious