My Overkill Home Network - Complete Details 2023

This guy selfhosts.

Wow, you must be rich

Feeling of inadequacy rising...

You must throw sick LAN parties...

I love the fact that you have a favourite switch!

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?

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.

It is beyond me that you dont get symetrical connection with fiber in the US.

Great job on the cabling and the setup! As an Apartment dweller, I hope you don't mind my living vicariously through your setup!

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You said complete details... So where's your private ssh key and public IP address?

Cool setup btw. Would love to get my hands on such a system.

I work in a school and I think you have more stuff than we do lol.

Yeah but can it host PiHole?

Hi OP. If you're reading this, I have a few questions:

1. 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.
2. Wouldn't a whitebox build for your NAS save power?
3. What are you using both switches for? Are you running out of ports?
4. Since you're running VMWare, are you running VMs for every service? Why not containers?
5. 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.

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?

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.

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!

Fucking amazing writeup, I haven't read it all yet but from what I read there's a lot of good information and inspiration

I don't know if you've mentioned this somewhere, but what's the purpose of the GPS on a home server?

Holy #%!@ng sh#%.

Very nice! Nothing wrong with a little overkill. :D

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"

You. I like you.

Honestly amazing setup. It's more robust than some industrial applications I've seen.

Thanks for such a great write-up. I'll definitely be referring back to it as I upgrade my homelab.

Cheers!

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Great setup! but is the thumbnail showing as George Takei for anyone else?

Sweet setup, what's the reason for the extreme attention to backup power? is the grid really that unreliable where you are?

I've had one unplanned power outage in the last 10 years so it seems like a crazy amount of backup to me.

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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)?

This amazing I great write-up/slash guide that people can follow.

I love that Verizon mounting solution! Velcro is the civilized man's duct tape!

That’s awesome!

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.

Holy cow, how long is that post?

I think, I need your setup to download and render it.....