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I'm curious to know details like what sort of house or dwelling this person lives in; anyplace with enough capacity for all that (4U rack space, power and cooli

I'm curious to know details like what sort of house or dwelling this person lives in; anyplace with enough capacity for all that (4U rack space, power and cooling, etc.) seems spacious. The article says it's right off a major street. So is it urban? Suburban? Single-family home? Inquiring minds want to know.

cmeacham98 4y ago
Just so you know, 4U of rack space is a whopping 7 inches of height. One rack holds many Us, with most "full size" racks clocking in at 42U. Open-air racks are typically less than 2 feet across and 3-4 feet deep (example [1]), hardly a significant stretch unless you live in a very small space. 1: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Open-Frame-Server-Rack/dp/B00O6GNLQE https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Open-Frame-Server-Rack/d...
zamadatix 4y ago
4u of space is less volume than many PC cases. I’ve got a 22u “half rack” in my apartment (half for testing gear for work, half because I like to tinker). Bigger concern would be noise. 1u network gear tends to have high pitched 20mm fans which can drive you nuts if you don’t have it in a separate room. Noctua makes a great kit I use in my own gear but Verizon probably wouldn’t be very happy with you if you tried to do that :). I went the route of “find a dirt cheap gigabit colo” ($150/m for quarter rack with gigabit and bgp peering) and just tunnel the IP space back home. Upside is you don’t have to pay to have the circuit put to where you currently live and you don’t have to worry about space/noise. Downside is if you want to use it locally at home you get extra latency due to the tunnel.
- cmeacham98 4y ago
  > Downside is if you want to use it locally at home you get extra latency due to the tunnel. I guess it depends on how your tunnel is set up, but shouldn't you be able to add a static route to your rack on the "home side"?
  - zamadatix 4y ago
    If your use case is just to use the unique space locally then you don't need BGP at all but the second you want to use it elsewhere you incur the latency of going through the tunnel.
    - cmeacham98 4y ago
      Ah, sorry, I misunderstood - I see what you mean now. I thought you meant "use the services hosted on your rack at home" (thus my suggestion), not "use the IP addresses you own at home".
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- icedchai 4y ago
  Currently I'm doing BGP over a wireguard VPN back to a couple of VPS providers. Actually, I only run OSPF to my home, the BGP part only happens on the VPS side. The tunnel does add about ~8 ms of latency worst case.
jordanbeiber 4y ago
I have a couple of 2U racks vertically mounted behind a door. Takes up zero usable space! It took me way too long to realize this option - many builds using miniture casings with cooling issues later, when buying large 2U cases with 120mm fan walls is the ticket.
ilyt 4y ago
You need like, a closet

cmeacham98 4y ago

Just so you know, 4U of rack space is a whopping 7 inches of height. One rack holds many Us, with most "full size" racks clocking in at 42U. Open-air racks are typically less than 2 feet across and 3-4 feet deep (example [1]), hardly a significant stretch unless you live in a very small space. 1: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Open-Frame-Server-Rack/dp/B00O6GNLQE https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Open-Frame-Server-Rack/d...

zamadatix 4y ago

4u of space is less volume than many PC cases. I’ve got a 22u “half rack” in my apartment (half for testing gear for work, half because I like to tinker). Bigger concern would be noise. 1u network gear tends to have high pitched 20mm fans which can drive you nuts if you don’t have it in a separate room. Noctua makes a great kit I use in my own gear but Verizon probably wouldn’t be very happy with you if you tried to do that :). I went the route of “find a dirt cheap gigabit colo” ($150/m for quarter rack with gigabit and bgp peering) and just tunnel the IP space back home. Upside is you don’t have to pay to have the circuit put to where you currently live and you don’t have to worry about space/noise. Downside is if you want to use it locally at home you get extra latency due to the tunnel.

cmeacham98 4y ago
> Downside is if you want to use it locally at home you get extra latency due to the tunnel. I guess it depends on how your tunnel is set up, but shouldn't you be able to add a static route to your rack on the "home side"?
- zamadatix 4y ago
  If your use case is just to use the unique space locally then you don't need BGP at all but the second you want to use it elsewhere you incur the latency of going through the tunnel.
  - cmeacham98 4y ago
    Ah, sorry, I misunderstood - I see what you mean now. I thought you meant "use the services hosted on your rack at home" (thus my suggestion), not "use the IP addresses you own at home".
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icedchai 4y ago
Currently I'm doing BGP over a wireguard VPN back to a couple of VPS providers. Actually, I only run OSPF to my home, the BGP part only happens on the VPS side. The tunnel does add about ~8 ms of latency worst case.

jordanbeiber 4y ago

I have a couple of 2U racks vertically mounted behind a door. Takes up zero usable space! It took me way too long to realize this option - many builds using miniture casings with cooling issues later, when buying large 2U cases with 120mm fan walls is the ticket.

ilyt 4y ago

You need like, a closet