It’s so worth that I did it twice.

well … times are hard for dell … it’s not like anyone is building any data centers or investing into digital infrastructure anymore.

it should be illegal period … or at least SEC regulated (if we had an SEC that wasn’t a captured agency) There should be a legitimate reason other than shareholder greed.

for a miini PC I recomend the M720q from Lenovo … it’s kind of overkill but it has a PCIE slot which means you can add a network card inside the original case and because it’s 16x you can go up to 10G if you wanted to.

I add external 2.5G cards on my other models via the USB3.0 ports but it’s messy and then I have to setup LACP on the switch

how low are we talking? I run a homelab with mini pc’s and pi

The raspberry pi runs at 3-9W each mini pc runs at 25-65w

Beware tho … open sense is not stable on ARM, and requires some hacking around to work

The only way that would happen … is if Palantir gets a backdoor large enough to fit all of Alex Karp’s ginormous forehead

BTRFS is not production ready (by their own admission)

1 disk redundancy leaves you exposed whenever you have to rebuild … has significantly higer chances of having a second disk fail so you should use double redundancy. Raid z2 doesn’t make sense because with raid z10 you get performance gains AND double redundancy.

Go with raid z10

Which is why he moved there in the first place

Not to butt in into your conversation, just wanted to drop that me and my colleagues use what we call the “clone cars” method to combat our company’s naming scheme

So for example we dubbed CAPROD01 “Cappy” NASPROD01 became “Nasir” LTPDEV02 became “Luigi” (because he’s always number 2)

Of course in written communication we use the full name (which is much less of an inconvenience) and we always double check in conversation or spell out full names before doing anything critical

good bot pats head

I mean, you can always install Proxmox on Debian XD

or for that matter LXD … it’s all kinda the same.

Gotta love OSS

Haven’t heard the gossip, please pray tell.

That’s AWESOME, I also named my NAS Atlas … because it carries the weight of all my backups

Good call on those names, you’re giving me some pretty cool ideas for my next servers

There are a TON of different tutorials and videos.

If you’re looking for a beginner friendly interface for your servers; I recommend “Cockpit” you just “sudo apt-get install cockpit” and it gives you a nice to use web interface to manage most of your servers, you can then install plugins as needed, for example you can install net bird or Pangolin to make it accessible from the internet.

If you want something more like what I’m doing here (Virtualization) you can try Canonical’s version of this which runs on ubuntu, They’re called LXD https://canonical.com/lxd/manage

Basically they’re tiny ritualized linux instances inside of your main ubuntu server (Containers) with their own kernel so that changes on the base server don’t bother your other apps.

Nice.

🤣 do you switch to elf names after the first 12?

Very good advice, also backup daily and test for backups often !!!

Amen, feels cold and unimaginative

Close, LCC. I do have a portrainer instance for docker images, but I like the extra control that San lxc gives you

There are a ton of guides out there, but the problem with open source software is that you can make it as yours as you want so every deployment is different. You would be better off doing some googling on what you want to get to, and asking more specific questions. Everyone in the community loves to help, but we need to know how.