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Once you work in enterprise IDC, setting up home labs is nothing but a liability. Unwanted stuff like UPS, cooling and more bills. I have one Intel NUC running
by nixcraft 4y ago
Once you work in enterprise IDC, setting up home labs is nothing but a liability. Unwanted stuff like UPS, cooling and more bills. I have one Intel NUC running FreeBSD 13 (dual SSD with 32 GB ram and Intel i7 CPU 8th GEN) with one jail and VM. It acts as a backup server for my Ubuntu laptop and MacBook pro. Nightly I dump data to cloud providers for offsite reasons. Finally, I set LXD, Docker and KVM on my Ubuntu dev laptop for testing. That is all. No more FreeNAS or 3 more servers including 2 RPis. I made this change during the first lockdown. They (I mean fun and excitements) went away once I handled all those expensive IT equipment/servers/firewalls/routers/WAFs funded employer ;)
- neoromantique 4y agoAgreed, I used to run enterprise hardware at home, and it was certainly fun to tinker with (Not to mention all of the blinking lights!). Last year I ran some numbers and realized that it just wasn't worth it, as electricity costs alone make it fairly close to what Hetzner/OVH would charge for similar hardware. I also had power go down in my area, for probably first time in 5 years or so that I lived there, which I took as a sign to just migrate away. I peer it into my internal network using WireGuard, so I barely notice a difference in my use and now that electricity costs are skyrocketing in Europe I'm certainly very happy I went this route.
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- ianai 4y agoYou’re still doing a lot of home serving/IT there. I take your point and generally agree. Leave the major hardware to the actual data centers. Stuff at home should be either resume driven or very efficient.