- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
- cross-posted to:
- technews@radiation.party
Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this
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This guy selfhosts.
Me: hey, I own that exact Anker USB power supply. I’m basically as pro as this guy!
Narrator: his old laptop and external hard drive set-up was not as impressive, even with the Anker USB power supply.
Funny you think I’m pro, I just like blinky lights!
Some people harness that desire into Christmas displays.
You made a mini-internet, complete with mini-mini-intenets!
Wow, you must be rich
it’s this or plastic surgery
I’m too ugly for plastic surgery
No way that’s true: possums are known for the natural majesty!
I think the reason we aren’t rich is because we do shit like this.
Anyway, I’m off to buy enough HDDs to get me through the end of the month.
Honestly its all cheaper than you think, 100% of it I bought used bar a few things, and over a long amount of time too. Plus messing with stuff like this has 100% helped me advance my career
You’ll be surprised how cheap some equipment goes for when a company runs out of business. Just sayin
I’ve been trying to hunt down cheap used network equipment lately. It’s a weird thing to be disappointed that there aren’t any failing businesses around me :(
I’m about to make an 8 hour round trip drive for a cheap server rack this coming weekend. Please send help.
“What would you do if you won the lottery?”
Me: points to this blog post.
I love that Verizon mounting solution! Velcro is the civilized man’s duct tape!
I do wish I had some white velcro though!
You must throw sick LAN parties…
I love the fact that you have a favourite switch!
Honestly I’d love to throw a LAN party
I’m horrible at CS:GO but I’ll cheer you on
I’m not bad, but I suspect I’m worse than a lot of guys out there
Can I come?
If you bring the beer
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I don’t know if you’ve mentioned this somewhere, but what’s the purpose of the GPS on a home server?
- Its cool. Imagine being able to get data from 12 satellites at the same time to get super accurate time, with a $10 GPS board. What a time to be alive!
- I’m trying to reduce the amount of stuff I’m relying on the internet for. Time is pretty important, and having a local server solves all that.
Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.
What is the advantage of self hosting an NTP server?
After all, it just tells time
After all, it just tells time
It’s for making your computers clocks be very, very close to each other. Not milliseconds close, but nano seconds. That is more important than one might think, especially for networks.
I’m going to have something similar at home at some point, just need to make a few more cable runs so one GPS can see the sky (= more accurate)
Knowing the time is pretty important to (networked) computers
One example:
Another use case: when you look at activities that flow across multiple devices and you’re correlating the sequence of events, having every device set to the exact same, ideally correct time makes correlation of events less confusing.
Solid writeup. Good looking setup. I like how you have a great reason for every decision you made.
Crazy overkill for almost everyone, but you’re living in the future!
Thanks!
Wow. That’s really an overkill.
Any idea what’s the power consumption of all that hardware?
How many hours a month do you spend upgrading or maintaining the network and all other software?
Also wanna know
Honestly, I’m not 100% sure. I don’t have a way to monitor just the stuff in the rack as the UPS also powers a lot of other stuff in the house. Either way, I’ve worked to make everything fairly low power, or at least as low power as feasible. The things that use the most power is the disks
I can tell you its less than 800w though, as that’s the lowest the UPS goes at night. But that also does include both me and my wifes desktops which stay on 24/7, and an Apple TV, and standby power for all devices etc
Holy #%!@ng sh#%.
Loved the UPS article itself. If you wanted to level it up one more time, you could do something like this: https://hackaday.com/2023/07/31/automatic-transfer-switch-keeps-internet-online/
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.
Yeah that’s on my to do list, I’m looking for some ATS PDU’s for cheap, like the CyberPower PDU20MHVT10AT
Great setup! but is the thumbnail showing as George Takei for anyone else?
What the heck! Not for me. Got a screenshot?
I’m on a Beta Kbin app so maybe that’s why? But as far as I can tell it has nothing to do with your webpage lol
I pasted into Discord and it just shows the rack, that is so odd
Even in a Discord lol
I am on the floor laughing
I work in a school and I think you have more stuff than we do lol.
I don’t know if I should be happy or sad
Proud.
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Encrypted mesh networking is cool.
I really think so too, really looking forward to getting it properly deployed
yes, but it’s throughput must be measured in Kbps, right?
If that! its 915mhz
Yeah but can it host PiHole?
It sure can, but so far I’ve not found much use for it. I set it up to see if it can block YouTube ads in the mobile app, but it can’t. Since I already use uBlock Origin, I don’t know what I gain
At least from my experience, with a proper blacklist it shuts down a ton more stuff. Not just pure ads, but a ton of tracking and websites/apps phoning home too. You can configure it to be as strict or lenient as you’d like, basically. For me it’s nice, because I can just apply it to the entire network, and I don’t have to worry about trying to explain how this works to my family
Maybe I’ll give it a go again, after all it does have a really nice slick WebUI
Also has the benefit of being a completely local DNS server for all your devices to use. I think you are also able to add custom entries if you wanted to be able to refer to your devices using dns. It also has some caching benefits so there are less DNS requests going out of your home network.
Personally I set up AdGuard Home because it has DNS over HTTPS support out of the box, which means your ISP cannot see your DNS requests. Pihole supports this too, but it requires additional setup.
Check out the Star Trek theme for PiHole! It’s one of the default options.
