yea, but this this 15 years ago. nowadays cell phones is equal to a land line.

a self hosted PBX does not give any value for a single number.

root@sw-core> show system uptime
fpc0:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current time: 2023-11-30 12:31:41 UTC
Time Source: LOCAL CLOCK
System booted: 2023-04-01 10:08:51 UTC (34w5d 02:22 ago)
Protocols started: 2023-04-01 10:14:36 UTC (34w5d 02:17 ago)
Last configured: 2023-11-12 12:38:21 UTC (2w3d 23:53 ago) by root
12:31PM up 243 days, 2:23, 1 user, load averages: 0.16, 0.08, 0.08

my apartment recently had some renovations done and the worker today asked my if my electric bill was high.. yea .. kind of.. I replied.

. "well your apartment was much warmer compared to all your neighbours..." go figure.

I have also had issues with Microservers and even HP PCI cards. Can you in BIOS disable firmware on the PCI slot? Dont remember if the microserver bios have that feature.

Most ppl might even have spinning drives, they can do ~100 Mbyte/s..
Some have upgraded to SSD, that can do up to ~500 Mbyte/s.
And a few have upgraded to NVME, most are in the range of 1000-2500 Mbytes/s

All these numbers are for fresh new drives.

3 Gigabit = 375 MBytes/s. Yes I can do the math!

yes and no.

you might be able to bond two connection but it is preferable to use LACP and that is normally not available on standard windows drivers / NICs.

on top of that you're internet speed won't go beyond 2.5G for a single session. lets say you download games from stream = you will be limited to 2.5G. But you might be able to download a game from steam at 2.5G/s and another one from EA at 2.5G.

also bear in mind that no HD will be able to save things at 3G/s and a SSD might be able to saturate it f you're lucky.

if you decided to get a 3G connection you must have been thinking about 10G all the way?

The hardware Mikronik has does not do L3 on-chip so it will be CPU based, and will be horrible. I also find RouterOS really hard to use compared to things like JunOS. I'm bias here.

Why can't you use OPNsense if you for some reason dont want to sit in the same boat as PFsense? I have not followed whatever happens there as I left PFSense years ago.

Having L3 at the access switch layer have other benefits.

without seeing your Nginx.config it will not be possible to help. you can also run curl with -vv and troubleshoot. I assume you just get two re-directs that append the path based on existing path, so you are doing the re-direct twice somehow. I don't know what Daminion or NPM are.

however its possible to route traffic in nginx with location and a normal proxy_pass.

Even then, idling (no OS,

And how would power management work without a proper OS? If you buy enterprise hardware honesty you need to educate yourself first.

a good backup strategy should follow the 3-2-1 rule (I recommend google it so you understand the concept)

I use tape for the pure purpose of easily having a backup offsite. Even if we don't foresee [insert your worst nightmare] happening it might, and having your data save outside of your house is for me a must.

Now its quite easy to store pictures and documents in the cloud and its fairly safe, but storing a lot of virtual machines, databases etc. in the cloud can be expensive. Storing the data on hard drives might be easy, but in 10 years who knows what interfaces your computer will have, that will be compatible? Also hard drives are clumsy.

Tapes allows me to take a backup every night, every week, and a monthly backup, as well as one quarterly backup without having to having to buy 10 hard drives.

I can easily store each tape at remote locations. Currently I only have tapes at work and at a family place, but all in the same city. Backups have saved my life 10+ times due to hardware issues.

A tapeloader might be better than having a single backup drive, but is more expensive and would require a tape backup software that can handle the loader.

There are VPNS that offer public IPs, some more enterprise grade VPNs can offer static IPs as well. But its not cheap.

Another way if traffic is mostly HTTP(S) based you can use cloudflare, seems to be the norm here.

Why are you moving to an ISP that does not support your needs? are you moving?

did you read the manual and connect power the way you are supposed to?

I don't need to worry about getting appropriate local storage for the computers that host these services

not sure I understand, what OS should these computers run? should this also be NAS storage? Or is it just the database filesystem that should be on the NAS?

honestly it looks like you don't have the knowhow to setup shared storage, it seems you are more a developer type of person, so KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)

run local storage, your databases won't be even gigabytes in size, get some cheap SSD drives instead (SATA) if you want I/O.

also all your databased won't dive when your accidentally pull the power plug to your NAS or trip over the ethernet cable.

I have never used TrueNAS but I guess you could provision a separate volume and use iSCSI on top of that, and serve your very large database just to make things easier.

you can in theory connect multiple hosts to the same JBOD with SAS, there are even "SAS Switches" that are built for that purpose.

But if you do this incorrectly and initiate the incorrect drives your TrueNAS data is bye-bye

generally 1U servers are not loud in the datacenters, that's just a myth, the main reason might be misconfiguration, or a datacenter that does not have any cooling....

if you control the fans your pizza boxes will run hotter, and might be throttling, or just shutdown completely.

running customers in your basement seems to be a horrible idea, but its your business :)

These are over 10 years old and are not really useful for anything, they are passively cooled. All this is quite easy info from google....

So useless unless you really want to get your hands dirty on VDI but it seems a bit out of your league at this point in time. that's why the cost like $40 on eBay.

the only good news is that they do not require a license to do vGPU / vVDI

, but $1,000 in cash

not sure how this would help me, I've spend 10k or more, but I could get a t-shirt I guess?

SQL server express is available even for Linux so that might be an interesting homelab setup.

Otherwise you can use a trial license for (any) windows client or server to run SQL Express. This of course implies that you dont run any commercial stuff, but you posted in homelab

want the f**** ?

Let's make this sub higher quality.

6 years on reddit and not a single post in homelab, perhaps you can share your own homelab, or perhaps sign up to be a mod, or create your own sub? You can raise quality by contributing as well....