Yes! Glad to see this thread back!
I've got a grand total of ZERO changes in my lab this month since it's still sitting in my in-laws basement. ππ We're halfway through building a new place and I absolutely can't wait to have my lab back!!
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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Ohh thatβs exciting!
Any big hardware plans with the new house? Planning on running ethernet/fiber to the rooms?
Thanks! I got cat6a and smurf tube run all sorts of places lol yep. That, some security camera upgrades, and (hopefully) kick ass 6e wifi are my biggest plans!
I had to move most of my switching equipement to my gf's house to prepare for a big move in the fall. My server are still at home, i only kept a small unmanaged switch. When I get to my new appartment in the fall I hope to finally buy a rack to be able to rack everything I have! I'm also getting a few HP G5 servers for free as well as some 1U boxes with PSU, hot swap bays and rails to build some awesome stuff! In the future, all of this for free!
Having a rack is a massive QOL improvement IMO, I originally had a stack of rackmount servers in an IKEA Lack (LackRack), and it was okay, but the rack is so much nicer.
The only thing I wish I had done was get an enclosed rack to help with noise and dust, rather than just a startech 4 post from Amazon.
And that's a lot of awesome stuff for free!
Enclosed rack are way too expensive tho... For my current setup my servers are sitting on a weird HP 192 port switch, I posted it when I joined lemmy here: https://lemmy.world/post/14870
Not many changes in my lab this month, other than figuring out that the lemmy issues were related to liveness checks timing out due to the required DB migration on startup that Lemmy implements.
In hindsight, this makes a lot of sense.