cablepick

I use namesilo. I moved there before they sold in 2018 and I haven’t found a reason to leave despite the changes. It still does everything I need and pricing is good enough.

I’m on cloud flare now so that’s probably where I’ll go if I’m ever bothered to move

At home I have a Proxmox cluster consisting of two Dell R340 and one Intel NUC. There are 25 VM’s across all three machines. They do various development duties along with home assistant, plex, and Blue Iris. The rack lives in a closet under the stairs and I have fiber ran to my office. We did a massive renovation when we purchased so I wired the entire house since the walls were all opened. Average power draw is around 480 watts.

Here is a picture of the rack back when it was all R330. Those have since been sold and upgraded to R340. I added vents during the renovation. Inlet temps stay around the house ambient, and exhaust is about 20 degrees F hotter. I cover the front with additional sound baffles to better route fresh air and control noise. Its pretty much silent outside the closet.

This is the patch panel. I have perimeter cameras all the way around the house plus more than enough wifi access points. Each room also got 2x ethernet on each side, 4x total. My office has got 6x ethernet plus 4x fiber and a 2-inch conduit to pull whatever else I can think of later.

I use Grafana and custom-made scripts for monitoring and alerting. Most of the infrastructure is automated with scripts. One of these days Ill learn Ansible but I really enjoying just figuring it all out. This isn’t my job I just do it for fun. Here is the dashboard I run on one of my desk monitors.

I run my hobby websites, and my Lemmy instance, in the colo but its primary purpose is to be an offsite backup. Proxmox backup server performs best on SSD hence the large array. I also do a lot of travel for work so that’s my remote dev machine too. I run my own mail servers with some small VPSs acting as SMTP and IMAP bouncers to internal servers at home and in the colo working in parallel. HA proxy does the bouncing for high availability and dovecot and postfix do the heavy lifting with solr providing lighting fast search. I do use a third party for outbound mail for better deliverability.

Dell R350 - Colo Proxmox

• Intel E-2388G processor
• 128gb 3200 ECC ram
• Dell H755p raid
• 8x Crucial MX500 4TB in raid 6
• Samsung 990 2TB NVMe

Dell R340 - Proxmox Node 0

• Intel E-2278G processor
• 128gb 3200 ECC ram. Despite the spec sheets and irdrac saying these only support 64gb they run 128gb just fine.
• Ultrastar DC SN640 7.68TB NVMe
• Dell H810 Flash with LSI firmware. HBA for SC200 disk shelves.
• Mellanox CX354A @ 40GbE

Dell R340 - Proxmox Node 1

• Intel i3-9100T processor
• 64gb 2400T ECC ram
• Ultrastar DC SN640 7.68TB NVMe
• Intel X520-DA2 @ 2x 10gbe

Intel 7th Gen Nuc - Proxmox Node 2

• Intel i5-7260U processor
• 32gb 2400 ram
• Ultrastar DC SN640 7.68TB NVMe

This is mounted to the wall under my desk in a silent case. I use Verizon Wireless home internet as a backup and this server is the router. My entire closet rack can go offline and Ill still have internet access.

Dell R730 - GPU

• 2x Intel E5-2696 V4 processor
• 512gb 2400T ECC ram
• SanDisk Skyhawk 3.84TB NVMe
• 2x Nvidia P100 16gb GPU
• Intel X520-DA2 @ 2x 10gbe
• This one stays powered off when not in use. I built it to play around with tensorflow and AI but haven’t had much time.

Dell SC200 Disk Shelf 1

• 12x WD 8TB 5400 rpm shucked drives
• Single z2 pool
• Roughly 74 usable TB
• Cold backups of the primary array. Only powered on once a month to sync.

Dell SC200 Disk Shelf 2

• 12x HGST 10tb SAS drives
• 2x z2 pools
• Roughly 72 usable TB
• Primary storage array. Sitting at about 70% utilized so its time to upgrade.

Bears do not--- What is going on--- What are you doing?!

We need to all post the content we want to see.

And to add to this the universal links with a ! should automatically be fetched by your instance instead of going 404 if they haven’t been searched before.

Agreed. Beyond just no ads because I go out of my way to block them on my network and devices its nice to browse new and be able to have discussions instead seeing complete shit posts or popular ones with 1,000+ replies already.

No way. I don't care if Lemmy doesn't succeed I'm never going to tolerate that shit. I stopped using Twitter when they killed third party apps and forced even more ads into their piece of shit app.

I run opnsense, which has a long a storied history with pfsense and in my opinion is better, on a VM in proxmox.

I have a cluster of three servers and I can live migrate the VMs around to do maintenance. It gets backed up to proxmox backup server so restoring from a bad upgrade, which I’ve never had happen, or severe experimentation, which happens frequently, is simple.

It’s also one less device to power on, and pay for. My cluster is running regardless and every watt less helps keep my wife happy.

I’ve never had any issues that I could attribute to it being run in a VM. It does my 1gbe fiber and a dozen vlans with no issues.

This reminds me of when digg blew it self up and everyone was complaining that Reddit wasn’t like digg. In time something good enough will come along if lemmy isn’t it. In the meantime I’m enjoying myself here.

I tried pasting a kbin magazine link into the search box but nothing ever showed up in my communities. I would love to be wrong but I’m not sure we can subscribe to their native groups.