Crazy awesome setup! I noticed you had an enphase inverter next to your electrical meter, I assume for solar panels. Would you mind giving details about that system? What size array do you have and how efficient has it been? How are you monitoring the solar systems output?
Another use case: when you look at activities that flow across multiple devices and you’re correlating the sequence of events, having every device set to the exact same, ideally correct time makes correlation of events less confusing.
Its cool. Imagine being able to get data from 12 satellites at the same time to get super accurate time, with a $10 GPS board. What a time to be alive!
I’m trying to reduce the amount of stuff I’m relying on the internet for. Time is pretty important, and having a local server solves all that.
What does your current connection cost per month? I get my 500/100 fiber next month for 59€/month. 1000/200 would be 79€, and that would be the fastest you can get :-/
I’m in Colorado and pay $49.95 for 1000/1000 (though i’m grandfathered in and i think it’s $69.95 for new users). There’s another ISP that offers the same at $70, or i can get 1200/35 cable for about $60.
I can get 2500/2500 for $149 and 10000/10000 for $249 (from my municipal provider) or I can get 6000/6000 for $300 (from the cable provider).
I was pretty happy with 100/40 but I have 8 TV’s often all streaming 4k hdr from various services at once, along with my constant downloads so i had fiber installed and went to 1000, I’m pretty happy now.
I also sync ser ers between home and work so not having to severely throttle that is nice, upstream bandwidth is still awful though.
Honestly its all cheaper than you think, 100% of it I bought used bar a few things, and over a long amount of time too. Plus messing with stuff like this has 100% helped me advance my career
I’ve been trying to hunt down cheap used network equipment lately. It’s a weird thing to be disappointed that there aren’t any failing businesses around me :(
I’m about to make an 8 hour round trip drive for a cheap server rack this coming weekend. Please send help.
Hi OP. If you’re reading this, I have a few questions:
You’re using the Linode box as the server, on which you forward ports for your services. Am I to assume that you somehow access your homelab via your VPN using the Linode box too? Usually people would access their lab at home directly.
Wouldn’t a whitebox build for your NAS save power?
What are you using both switches for? Are you running out of ports?
Since you’re running VMWare, are you running VMs for every service? Why not containers?
Even if most of the content on your blog is static, how are you hosting it for it to load so quickly? Are you using some sort of CDN in front of your Linode box to cache the static assets like pictures?
It was great reading about your lab. I’ll try and follow your blog on RSS if you have a feed. Thanks.
You’re using the Linode box as the server, on which you forward ports for your services. Am I to assume that you somehow access your homelab via your VPN using the Linode box too? Usually people would access their lab at home directly.
Yes, I also access the lab via the Linode box. I do however have direct VPN access too. The reason for using the Linode box is that for some reason, the speed and latency via the Linode box is far better that directly in. I can only assume its some kind of peering thing. I always connect in via my phone on T-Mobile, so perhaps the connection between T-Mobile and Linode, and the connection between AT&T and Linode, is better than T-Mobile to AT&T Residential? Unsure, all I know is that it works 100x better. And it also means I don’t need 2 different connections for the primary and secondary WAN, I can just connected to Linode and it will connect over whatever connection is active
Wouldn’t a whitebox build for your NAS save power?
This really is a whitebox build, it uses very little power. The disks use the most amount of power, which there is no getting around
What are you using both switches for? Are you running out of ports?
The 1Gb switches? yes, I ran out of ports on the Dell, or am very, very close
Since you’re running VMWare, are you running VMs for every service? Why not containers?
Everything that can run in containers already is, on Debian VM’s within ESXi
Even if most of the content on your blog is static, how are you hosting it for it to load so quickly? Are you using some sort of CDN in front of your Linode box to cache the static assets like pictures?
I am using CloudFlare in front of it, so that’s probably why. But even directly its pretty quick. I guess NVMe storage and decent internet means its fast?
How do you relay your VPN connection over your Linode box? I can understand a direct VPN connection, but I can’t understand the networking behind relaying the VPN connection around the Linode box.
Good to hear! I replied above about it, here was my reply
I am using CloudFlare in front of it, so that’s probably why. But even directly its pretty quick. I guess NVMe storage and decent internet means its fast?
Part of me looks at this man as a system God among us puny and unworthy users.
The other part is saying just keep paying for one drive and Netflix. As the saying goes “the first step to powerbill and uptime hell is the simple plex server”
Oh I’m already testing plex out on the desktop with a few of the *arr services. It’s very neat and satisfying but with power hitting $0.50aud/kW i need to be realistic about what hardware I want to run as investing too heavily early on will take years to pay off.
Still I’m very jealous of what you’ve got going on.
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Great job on the cabling and the setup! As an Apartment dweller, I hope you don’t mind my living vicariously through your setup!
I’ve been there! Such a hassle. It was great when I moved and was finally able to do what I wanted
Fucking amazing writeup, I haven’t read it all yet but from what I read there’s a lot of good information and inspiration
Thanks!
Crazy awesome setup! I noticed you had an enphase inverter next to your electrical meter, I assume for solar panels. Would you mind giving details about that system? What size array do you have and how efficient has it been? How are you monitoring the solar systems output?
I already made a detailed write up on the whole install and all the issues I faced, and monitoring. Here you go!
https://blog.networkprofile.org/17kw-enphase-solar-install/
https://blog.networkprofile.org/power-monitoring-setup-iotawatt-grafana/
https://blog.networkprofile.org/full-power-overview-and-qa/
These are great write ups. Much appreciated.
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Solid writeup. Good looking setup. I like how you have a great reason for every decision you made.
Crazy overkill for almost everyone, but you’re living in the future!
Thanks!
I don’t know if you’ve mentioned this somewhere, but what’s the purpose of the GPS on a home server?
Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.
What is the advantage of self hosting an NTP server?
After all, it just tells time
Knowing the time is pretty important to (networked) computers
One example:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/maximum-tolerance-for-computer-clock-synchronization
Another use case: when you look at activities that flow across multiple devices and you’re correlating the sequence of events, having every device set to the exact same, ideally correct time makes correlation of events less confusing.
It is beyond me that you dont get symetrical connection with fiber in the US.
I am in the US and I do… In fact, I can upgrade to symmetrical 5Gb now with AT&T
What does your current connection cost per month? I get my 500/100 fiber next month for 59€/month. 1000/200 would be 79€, and that would be the fastest you can get :-/
$70/mo for the AT&T Fiber, and $50/mo for the Verizon 5G
200 up isn’t too bad, nothing to really cry over. My old connection at my last place was 1000/30! What a joke
I’m in Colorado and pay $49.95 for 1000/1000 (though i’m grandfathered in and i think it’s $69.95 for new users). There’s another ISP that offers the same at $70, or i can get 1200/35 cable for about $60.
I can get 2500/2500 for $149 and 10000/10000 for $249 (from my municipal provider) or I can get 6000/6000 for $300 (from the cable provider).
Australian here, I get 1000 / 50… don’t ask what it costs to upgrade that upload speed.
Can I ask why you pay for that speed? I’m on 25/10 and I’ve never felt it was the 25mb download cap that is holding me back.
I was pretty happy with 100/40 but I have 8 TV’s often all streaming 4k hdr from various services at once, along with my constant downloads so i had fiber installed and went to 1000, I’m pretty happy now.
I also sync ser ers between home and work so not having to severely throttle that is nice, upstream bandwidth is still awful though.
ahh thats fair, there’s never really more than one stream at a time here.
Everywhere I have lived and seen does 🤷♂️.
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I love that Verizon mounting solution! Velcro is the civilized man’s duct tape!
I do wish I had some white velcro though!
You must throw sick LAN parties…
I love the fact that you have a favourite switch!
Honestly I’d love to throw a LAN party
I’m horrible at CS:GO but I’ll cheer you on
I’m not bad, but I suspect I’m worse than a lot of guys out there
Can I come?
If you bring the beer
Very nice! Nothing wrong with a little overkill. :D
Thanks!
Wow, you must be rich
it’s this or plastic surgery
I’m too ugly for plastic surgery
No way that’s true: possums are known for the natural majesty!
Honestly its all cheaper than you think, 100% of it I bought used bar a few things, and over a long amount of time too. Plus messing with stuff like this has 100% helped me advance my career
I think the reason we aren’t rich is because we do shit like this.
Anyway, I’m off to buy enough HDDs to get me through the end of the month.
You’ll be surprised how cheap some equipment goes for when a company runs out of business. Just sayin
I’ve been trying to hunt down cheap used network equipment lately. It’s a weird thing to be disappointed that there aren’t any failing businesses around me :(
I’m about to make an 8 hour round trip drive for a cheap server rack this coming weekend. Please send help.
“What would you do if you won the lottery?”
Me: points to this blog post.
This guy selfhosts.
Me: hey, I own that exact Anker USB power supply. I’m basically as pro as this guy!
Narrator: his old laptop and external hard drive set-up was not as impressive, even with the Anker USB power supply.
Funny you think I’m pro, I just like blinky lights!
Some people harness that desire into Christmas displays.
You made a mini-internet, complete with mini-mini-intenets!
Hi OP. If you’re reading this, I have a few questions:
It was great reading about your lab. I’ll try and follow your blog on RSS if you have a feed. Thanks.
Yes, I also access the lab via the Linode box. I do however have direct VPN access too. The reason for using the Linode box is that for some reason, the speed and latency via the Linode box is far better that directly in. I can only assume its some kind of peering thing. I always connect in via my phone on T-Mobile, so perhaps the connection between T-Mobile and Linode, and the connection between AT&T and Linode, is better than T-Mobile to AT&T Residential? Unsure, all I know is that it works 100x better. And it also means I don’t need 2 different connections for the primary and secondary WAN, I can just connected to Linode and it will connect over whatever connection is active
This really is a whitebox build, it uses very little power. The disks use the most amount of power, which there is no getting around
The 1Gb switches? yes, I ran out of ports on the Dell, or am very, very close
Everything that can run in containers already is, on Debian VM’s within ESXi
I am using CloudFlare in front of it, so that’s probably why. But even directly its pretty quick. I guess NVMe storage and decent internet means its fast?
Thanks!
How do you relay your VPN connection over your Linode box? I can understand a direct VPN connection, but I can’t understand the networking behind relaying the VPN connection around the Linode box.
Ah, yes CloudFlare is a great proxy/CDN. Thanks
Not OP, but also curious about number 5, I noticed that blog article loaded lickety-split!
Good to hear! I replied above about it, here was my reply
Part of me looks at this man as a system God among us puny and unworthy users.
The other part is saying just keep paying for one drive and Netflix. As the saying goes “the first step to powerbill and uptime hell is the simple plex server”
Just wait until they remove your favorite show and jack up the price
Oh I’m already testing plex out on the desktop with a few of the *arr services. It’s very neat and satisfying but with power hitting $0.50aud/kW i need to be realistic about what hardware I want to run as investing too heavily early on will take years to pay off.
Still I’m very jealous of what you’ve got going on.