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A quick look at my homelab [video]

by robinhood on 4/29/24, 12:37 AM with 12 comments

  • by apantel on 4/29/24, 3:12 AM

    There’s another video on his channel where he tries to answer why he built it:

    https://youtu.be/OSGLrzSuCtM

    It sounds like a bunch of little pet projects that could be run on a very small cluster. I think he just has a lot of money to burn on what is essentially a curiosity, where the scale of the system necessitates all of the complexity in it… but it doesn’t actually DO anything of importance besides run. It’s not like he had workloads and needed a setup of that scale. The setup IS the workload.

    It’s like the marble machine. The build is for the build’s sake.

  • by evanjrowley on 4/29/24, 5:21 AM

    That's incredible!

    I was not prepared to hear him say the UPS was "only outputting 3.74 kilowatts because not a lot of stuff is running".

    What struck me as slightly ironic were the two converted desktop systems in the "applications" rack appeared to have Noctua fans.

  • by CyberPioneer on 4/29/24, 1:47 AM

    That's truly impressive! Even though we're a startup of about 30 people with our own server room, our setup pales in comparison to yours. I'm going to take some time to seriously study how you've done it.

  • by eternityforest on 4/29/24, 4:53 AM

    Seems like he's a big fan of Proxmox even for very small scale stuff. Maybe I should be looking into it even though I don't have a homelabs?

  • by JohnSSS1978 on 4/29/24, 1:50 AM

    Did you previously work for a company specializing in IDC or data centers? Your setup is very professional.

  • by justusthane on 4/29/24, 2:18 AM

    Ha, I came here to comment that it can’t possibly be as good as this[1] homelab that I saw on Reddit recently…then I realized it’s the same guy. Seriously incredible.

    Anyway, some more info here:

    [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1bn3p75/comment/kw...