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I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.

by lxe 3y ago

vdfs 3y ago
Cost of electricity is an other factor to consider
wredue 3y ago
It’s a black hole for your wallet. Once you start. You can’t stop. But I also now have a bunch of electrician tools for running wires, some private cameras that aren’t google or Amazon spying on everyone that walks by, and a network that isn’t bogged down by a couple people watching Netflix. And I have plans for MORE.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
  What cameras do you use?
  - wredue 3y ago
    It’s all ubiquiti. I use the Bullet G4 pro and doorbell g4. I’m not in any position to state anything about the competition. I am glad to have went the PoE route, even if running those wires sucked ass. I only did UI cameras cause everything else I have is ui. There wasn’t much more thought than that.
    - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
      I have ubiquity APs and a USG but the camera are so expensive. I'll have to stick with my Chinese crapware and a DNS blocker for the meantime.
  - megraf 3y ago
    Axis communications, exclusively.
hqsolomo 3y ago
If you're crafty you can work around this- three of my servers (2 NAS boxes and a Proxmox box) were custom built from commodity hardware. I literally bought plain ol uATX and ITX decommed business gear from my local uni surplus store and a P-Link chassis for each used from eBay. I spent more on drives than I did machines (Y'ALL WANNA KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BUY 16TB WORTH OF SSDS FOR ZFS MIRRORS? TOO. DAMN. MUCH.) You really gotta do some due diligence to make sure you're not buying lemon parts but it's very possible to get a beefy homelab at fair prices!
dheera 3y ago
It can be reasonable if you wait for good 2nd hand deals on equipment, especially from startups shutting down. My 10G switch with PoE and 4 SFP+ ports cost only $100, for example, while many new products with similar specs cost $600+.
- hqsolomo 3y ago
  Can I guess what you're running? It sounds so much like my switch- Brocade ICX series? Best $60 purchase I ever made!
  - dheera 3y ago
    Aruba S2500-24P
    - hqsolomo 3y ago
      Oh, still very nice!
monstermunch 3y ago
I make sure to never count the cost! But, its all used and all over a number of years, so not as much as you'd think. If you went out and tried to get it all at once, it would be crazy. Most things I spent a good while waiting for the right deal to come up Like the UPS alone, I saved probably close to $3000 off MSRP

I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.

by lxe 3y ago

I'm curious what the total cost of all this is. My reservation of rack mounted setup has been cost of hardware.

vdfs 3y ago

Cost of electricity is an other factor to consider

wredue 3y ago

It’s a black hole for your wallet. Once you start. You can’t stop. But I also now have a bunch of electrician tools for running wires, some private cameras that aren’t google or Amazon spying on everyone that walks by, and a network that isn’t bogged down by a couple people watching Netflix. And I have plans for MORE.

KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
What cameras do you use?
- wredue 3y ago
  It’s all ubiquiti. I use the Bullet G4 pro and doorbell g4. I’m not in any position to state anything about the competition. I am glad to have went the PoE route, even if running those wires sucked ass. I only did UI cameras cause everything else I have is ui. There wasn’t much more thought than that.
  - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
    I have ubiquity APs and a USG but the camera are so expensive. I'll have to stick with my Chinese crapware and a DNS blocker for the meantime.
- megraf 3y ago
  Axis communications, exclusively.

hqsolomo 3y ago

If you're crafty you can work around this- three of my servers (2 NAS boxes and a Proxmox box) were custom built from commodity hardware. I literally bought plain ol uATX and ITX decommed business gear from my local uni surplus store and a P-Link chassis for each used from eBay. I spent more on drives than I did machines (Y'ALL WANNA KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BUY 16TB WORTH OF SSDS FOR ZFS MIRRORS? TOO. DAMN. MUCH.) You really gotta do some due diligence to make sure you're not buying lemon parts but it's very possible to get a beefy homelab at fair prices!

dheera 3y ago

It can be reasonable if you wait for good 2nd hand deals on equipment, especially from startups shutting down. My 10G switch with PoE and 4 SFP+ ports cost only $100, for example, while many new products with similar specs cost $600+.

hqsolomo 3y ago
Can I guess what you're running? It sounds so much like my switch- Brocade ICX series? Best $60 purchase I ever made!
- dheera 3y ago
  Aruba S2500-24P
  - hqsolomo 3y ago
    Oh, still very nice!

monstermunch 3y ago

I make sure to never count the cost! But, its all used and all over a number of years, so not as much as you'd think. If you went out and tried to get it all at once, it would be crazy. Most things I spent a good while waiting for the right deal to come up Like the UPS alone, I saved probably close to $3000 off MSRP