You’ve forgotten about raid0…

I fed it to my AI and intend to sell access rights to it.

It’s a laziness thing. Easier to just cut around “problems” then to actually get a good take in.

So it isn’t whether you’re using Azure, it’s whether you’re using CrowdStrike (Azure related or not)

No. Azure platform is using Crowdstrike on their hypervisors. So simply using Azure could be sufficient to hurt you in this case even if your Azure host isn’t using Crowdstrike itself. But yes, otherwise it’s a mix of Windows+Crowdstrike.

Yes, but Azure platform itself was using it. So many of those systems were down overnight (and there’s probably still stragglers). The guy you responded to specifically called out Azure-based services.

Ebay and decommission. I got really lucky on my SSDs, those were all from a decommission. Company was going to pay an ITAD for destruction. I picked it all up and wiped it on site. The rest are relatively cheap hardware, supermicros and such… but with enough of them you can build a resilient cluster.

A lot of my stuff is Ebay… I did recently purchase a new rack as probably the only “new” item I have in regards to my setup. The old one had issues… and I didn’t want to deal with thrifting broken racks anymore. And I needed a taller 45U rack rather than a 42U standard rack… Also the more depth means I can accommodate the 60 bay server in the future if it comes to that.

But things like 40gbps networking… ebay. The proxmox servers are decomissioned. the truenas server was ebay. switches was ebay… Oh! The firewalls… That was new purchase. I am stupid lucky to live somewhere with 8gbps fiber. I needed real horsepower to push that with IDS/IPS enabled. So this was a new purchase from supermicro. The SAS spinning rust drives I picked up on Reddit homelabsales or something like that a while back. PDU’s were ebay… UPS were ebay… Expansion batteries were craigslist. Most cables were new from FS

Previous versions of my rack were government liquidation/auctions. My dad has a lot of that equipment now. I found one auction that was 1400$ that was basically a whole racks worth of shit… most of it pretty usable 12 and 13th gen dells. And another auction for 600$ that had a dell m1000e with some 4TB of DDR4 ram…

But you can do a lot of this shit with a cluster of little N100 boxes if you really wanted. I just happened to get my hands on enterprise level equipment… So I joined the Romans…

I do not have full proper offsites… yet.

I run proxmox, so if it’s live on a server it’s probably on my ~70TB (really 40*2TB ssd) ceph cluster. Which makes 3 copies across the 5 boxes, so it’s more like 23TB of usable space for all my vms and such. The 400TB of storage is Truenas is really closer to 300TB after all the losses in raidz vdev and hot spares and what have you, there’s 30x 16TB SAS seagates in the box, of which 2 are hot spares and 7 are parity for raidz1… For things that are slow or linear loads (a movie file could be a good example of that type of workload!). Backups of the the proxmox boxes… and mass stored stuff, 99% of it I could easily obtain again if I had to. Although I’d probably be pretty flustered about it.

Truly important stuff gets written to 100GB bluray(s) (specifically m-disc blurays) and put in the safe. I do this probably about once a year or so…

My dad was in the process of setting up his own cluster that’s running 14TB drives rather than my 16TB… When he’s finally done I intend to requisition probably about half of his space for offsite storage (maybe more). I’m figuring about 100TB of space is what I’ll have there. Maybe more. He’s about 65 miles away from me, different electrical grid and all.

So the count as it stands now. Everything running has at least 2 copies on 2 mediums (ceph cluster, and spinning rust). My “linux iso” repositories only live on the spinning rust storage, but is low priority anyway. Super important highly sensitive shit lives on at least 3 copies and 3 mediums, although one of the mediums may be out of date and none is offsite… Though it’s rare I add to this category. There is plans for adding another copy of data, offsite on harddrive storage for most of my dataset as it is now.

Truenas usages:

And here’s Ceph

I have to really dislike something to delete it.

The velma tv show was the last item I just deleted.

But for me this is the same story. I’m up to 400TB… I’m just over half full. I’ve got plenty to go, and if I make to to 75-80% full, then I’m going to get me a 45 or 60 bay server and upgrade from my 36 bay one. 6 of the bays are wasted on SSD caching currently… Just finding a chassis that doesn’t waste the 3.5 inch bays on 2.5 drives would allow me to add a full vdev(another 100TB…).

Old chassis can be had on ebay relatively cheaply.

Oh god this make so much more sense…

I had read a comment from OP talking about random shit, then ran into this thread… I thought they just lost their shit. I still wonder… but a lot less now.

If it’s a raidz, you can.

Yes, but at the very least they have to do queries to build that profile out across dozens or hundreds of recipients… And they only get what I explicitly sent to them/their users.

Google collects 100% of the emails you’re getting on gmail and it’s already sent directly to you… so they see it completely… including emails being sent to other sources since it originates from their server (so collecting information that would be going to an MS Exchange server as well…).

Self hosting this means that you’re collecting your own shit… And companies can only get the outgoing side to their users. And never the full picture of your systems/emails.

This matters a lot more than you think. Lots of systems for automation sends through systems like Mailchimp, PHPmailer, etc… So those emails from your doctor likely never originated from MS or Google to begin with. When it hits your inbox on Gmail or Outlook… Well now it’s on their system. Now they can analyze it.

Mailcow.

Personally. No. The hardest part is getting a clean IP and to setup PTR records for a static IP. The rest has been easy for me personally… but I do this shit for a living so I might be biased.

What do you use for that?

Because emails can have a boatload of sensitive information (especially when collected en masse, think years and years of emails)… In the day of AI bullshit. Minimizing all that data being directly attached to an account associated with you and owned by google or some other corp seems like a sane desire. If you primary a gmail account… and they start (they probably already are) training on that dataset. Shit is going to get real testy.

We get it, you’re a Trump supporter.

LMFAO. Yeah sure. If you actually read my posts you’ll see that I want both parties to be better. Neither candidate is worth my vote. And I’ve never voted Trump.

I’m glad you felt safe during his presidency, unfortunately an easy 45% of the American population (queer and minority groups) did not feel this way and were vilified by Trump and his supporters during his presidency

I’m in a (several) minority group. Don’t speak for me.

so that “assassination” attempt that definitely wasn’t staged

Man… And you idiots call the right leaning groups conspiracy nuts. It’s impossible to have a discussion with any of you when you say really dumb shit like this. 1 person is dead. 2 are in hospital. You think that was staged? Killing people on live TV was staged?

All the hatred and vitriol he created just poof wiped away because supposedly a leftist “shot a pellet” at him, which is an assassination attempt?

A PERSON IS DEAD. THE “PELLET” KILLED 1 AND PUT 2 MORE IN HOSPITAL. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/corey-comperatore-trump-shooting-victim/index.html

Trump will kill more Palestinian’s in a year through his rhetoric

Ah cause so many are making it through now right? Israel is doing so much worse because Biden or Trump is in office! Holy shit you’re something special.

I have nothing I can positively say to you. You’re hook line and sinker for the cult of Biden. God forbid we acknowledge even basic facts like someone fucking died.

Edit: Corrected a sentence… missed a couple of words.

Edit2: Oh and to clarify, I’m not counting the shooter in the dead count. There’s really 2… But who gives a shit about someone who kills random civilians.

So the person in the stands that died protecting their family… That’s special effects?

How about the other 2 that are in the hospital? That’s special effects?

Please tell me you’re not that stupid.

All of your points boil down to things that actually can’t be found in Project2025 it seems. Removal of DEI is the only point I see here that is actually in there… And honestly… DEI just doesn’t/isn’t work/working IMO. Working for an R1 University, I sat on the board that hired people in my department. Those with qualifications were overlooked and were not hired… those without qualifications were voted against by the board and were still hired… They held some form of desired racial quality.

Those links… none of them actually state what parts of the Project2025 say these things. It’s more of the same handwavy “well it says it somewhere in there” with no direct quotes or evidence otherwise.

Also, I’m sorry if I made you feel disrespected, I wasn’t trying to do that.

I don’t expect civilians to understand military at all. I don’t hold you to any standard in that respect (unless you try to speak authoritatively on any of it). However, commander in chief, I would hold to the highest standard.

But I still think Trump is clearly the more dangerous choice - hell any Republican would be seeing what they’ve done in red states, not to mention how he plans on not conceding if he loses. (Not how democracy works)

Not from my perspective. And especially not after seeing the assassination attempt of Trump on the news literally an hour ago.

Edit: fixed a non-clear point… poor wording.

Of Biden? No… of the commenter for claiming the speech was “Fantastic” when it was just read off a teleprompter? Yes…

Otherwise you are supporting the felon, Putin, Orban and insanity.

And this is where you’re wrong. I can support “nothing”. Until either side actually puts up a reasonable fucking choice. I’ll choose to support myself, and that’s it.

Edit: Are you vote botting yourself? The same people are upvoting your comment… hours apart. Very odd that the same couple people are upvoting all your stuff hours apart on a thread they presumably would read once and move on from.

but even with all his problems hes still a way better choice.

I don’t think so. I, and everyone I know lived considerably better under Trump. And I’m not getting much valid argument to sway me otherwise of why what we have now is worth the cost.

Also I never said it didn’t matter about getting the troop numbers wrong.

There’s a difference between getting a number wrong off the top of your head to claiming IT NEVER HAPPENED. If I eat half a pie of pizza and claim I ate 3 slices when it was really 4… That’s a completely different thing than forgetting that there was even pizza to being with. Now up the scale to people who died under your orders. You’re downplaying this rather than owning it and pushing for a better fucking candidate.

when has he disparaged veterans?

Seriously? “Clap for that you stupid bastards” to a room of military members who were forced to attend his speech. We already covered him shitting on dead soldiers under his watch. Why do I have to give you more evidence when you ALREADY acknowledged at least one instance of it? Do I have to write you a book on it? We’ve already acknowledged it. Accept that he’s done it.

I can tell you as a VA-going veteran… The VA was better under trump. So if he shits on veterans in speeches (telling them to stand up when they’re disabled and wheel-chair bound), can’t even sit through a proper ceremony where HIS DEAD SOLDIERS returned in casket, his veteran policy leads to shittier care for myself and everyone I know… Yes… He shits on veterans. I’m sorry that you have to hear it from me. There’s very few Veterans that I’m aware of that actually want to vote Biden. (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3078007/bidens-big-lie-on-veterans/ the facts here [not the shitty editorializing] matches what I observe in the VA system as a user of the system.)

Trump is the one doing major shitting on the military and veterans:

Which nobody heard first hand… Most military members believe this to be bullshit (me included). With Biden it’s all on tape. With Trump, I have to take the third party account and word of 1 person against many others’ word saying that it didn’t happen to begin with. There is no actual evidence that it was said at all https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/06/28/trump-soldiers-suckers-losers-2/… people like you keep claiming that he said it like you can wish it into existence. If he says it in private, fine… Even if he said it in public… Veterans under Trump got better care (IME). Actions speak louder than words as the adage goes. Biden both speaks and acts as if the Military is a burden on him. Where at “worst” trump said one thing in private… and then takes actions to better millions of veterans lives. It’s an obvious “win” here.

Edit: Ah shit! I see you edited the comment while I was making this one… Let’s address the shit you ninja’d in there…

Trump is a convicted rapist

So not child rapist as you claimed? Why are you lying to get your point across then?

The Biden assaulting his daughter thing has been debunked https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-diary-afraid/

This isn’t what I said… nor the claim I made. You can read the diary for yourself. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ashley-biden-leaked-diary-accusation/ This is the claim I’m referencing. And here’s the diary you can read yourself. https://archive.org/details/ashley-biden-diary/page/n43/mode/2up. My claim here is that I view showering with your daughters as a form of sexual abuse(and I understand that this is subjective), I never said assault. I have 2 daughters, I’ve never once showered with them. I’ve bathed them… I’ve made them shower (shampoo’d their hair, etc…). I’ve never showered with them. I would also argue that many of the topics Ashley covers in her diary should not have been able to happen if Biden was actually a decent father. But that’s a different topic all together.

As for project 2025 it was written by his advisors, along with the heritage foundation (who worked closely with his administration as well).

So you’re not going to tell me how it’s fascist? I’m giving you that it’s probably Christian-based. From what I read it follows a lot of Christian beliefs… But point me to anything in there that’s fascist. Here’s a copy of it for you. https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf Once again… Please show me SPECIFICALLY what policy he’s pushing that’s going to force fascism?

Why did you ignore both questions and dodge them into other points that were barely related?

You want me to ignore 95% of the speech to address comments at the end that amounts to literal moments? And judge his “fantastic” speech on just those moments…

It’s not a matter of me “already deciding” something… It’s being objective.

When the man is forced to talk off prompter for longer than literal moments. He fails… EVERY time. And even oftentimes fails ON prompter. But for some reason this 90 seconds or so proves otherwise for you. This speaks more for you than for me.

Trump is lying about being a child rapist, and his plans to institute a christo-fascist state, which seems significantly worse than getting some statistics wrong.

Please source these items individually for me.

Trump is a child rapist -

This sounds like deflection from Biden sexually abusing his own daughter. Snopes doesn’t even give any credence to this one… which historically was anti-trump and pro-biden (having to revise many articles in the past year in more favor of Trump). https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-child-rape-settlements/

his plans to institute a christo-fascist state -

Are you talking about Project2025? Can you a) source that he subscribes to it? b) source what part of it is facist, I mean specific article/page/chapter… something more meaningful that just screaming Project2025?

I mean, overlooking troops dying is more significant

Overlooking? The fucker shits on veterans everywhere, regularly. Yet I have people telling me that I should overlook that myself, as a veteran. Fuck that.

but he has cracked down on the border. He tried passing a border control law but the Republicans killed it.

No he hasn’t. We’ve had well over 30 million illegals cross the border in his 3.5 years in office. Border encounters are still at record highs. With sources saying that we have 6 million encounters alone from 2021-2023 FYs alone (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/29/us/illegal-border-crossings-data.html). Remember that encounters do not count those that make it through without being captured. And pushing lies like this doesn’t help you lend any credibility to Biden. Waiting until t-6months to finally do something about a problem that was a non-issue under your predecessor is an abysmal take to argue for something that matters a lot to border state residents and to the safety of our country (with active known terrorists being caught at the border regularly). Your argument is basically “he’s doing something”… Doing “something” against 1240% increase is not sufficient. Stop acting like it is.

https://homeland.house.gov/2024/05/22/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year/

Arguing that they are both liars and therefore equally as bad seems ludicrous.

Only to people too stupid to realize the alternative is to run LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE WITH A FUCKING PULSE that’s preferably below the age of retirement. Only idiots believe that Biden is the only answer.

So you think he did a good job? We agree.

No. I don’t hand out trophies for reading words off a screen. My 7 year old daughter can do that.

Nextcloud AIO on a Proxmox LXC container. One instance for home, one instance at work. All works great. Both are on fast ceph storage (SSDs at home and NVMe at work).

You think he hasn’t lied?

“I’m the only president this century that doesn’t have any — this decade — that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world, like [Trump] did.”

So the video of Biden checking his watch over and over again as military members were passing him… They weren’t dead. They were just sleeping extra hard.

The US Border Patrol union “endorsed me, endorsed my position.”

https://x.com/BPUnion/status/1806501048724430943

“Black unemployment is the lowest level it’s been in a long, long time.”

In April 2023 under Biden, black unemployment hit a record low of 4.8%, beating a previous low of 5.3% reached under Trump in 2019.

However, the rate last month was 6.1%. Far from “lowest” by several percentage points.

“We have a thousand millionaires in America, I mean billionaires. And what’s happening? They’re in a situation where they in fact pay 8.2% taxes.”

The top 1% of taxpayers (income of at least $548,000) paid an average tax rate of nearly 26% in 2020, while the top 0.001% — 1,475 taxpayers with at least $77 million in adjusted gross income – paid 23.7%

“I’ve changed in a way that now you’re in a situation where there are 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally. That’s better than when [Trump] left office.”

HAH. I not even gratifying this lie with the truth. I think we all know the southern border is a serious problem and that it’s still not even close to Trump levels.

These were JUST from the debate… Several other statements weren’t outright lies, but definitely misrepresentations of the truth. You’re not going to convince anyone that Biden ISN’T lying. There is no single “big liar”. They’re both lying.

Hard to fuck up when you’re reading 100% from a teleprompter. Click to a random spot in the video where he’s talking. Notice his face is ALWAYS locked on a specific location. Literally the glass panes that you can see. That’s the teleprompter. He seems to favor the one on his right.

Yeah… when you pull up stats for Netflix library, you learn some things… Like how little content they actually had. Never cracked 7000 movies… And while that may seem like a lot to a lot of people out there. Those of us that remember blockbuster stores, you ignore like 90% of them cause they’re dumb or silly movies that you’d never watch anyway (or stuff you’ve already watched). Then you can put actual numbers to it… If each of these are full bluray rips (which they’re not as far as Netflix goes) they only take up 175TB… It’s not a lot of movies at all.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-netflix-movie-and-tv-show-catalog-changed-over-time-2020-2

It’s pretty easy to see how an individual could collect more content than netflix easily. Now add money to the equation… I think it would be possible to collect double or triple netflix easily.

The real fun is going to be when he’s finally up and running… I have ~250TB of data on the Truenas box. Initial sync is going to take a hot week… or 2…

Edit: 23 days at his max download speed :(

Fine… a hot month and a half.

Ceph has been FANTASTIC for me. I’ve done the dumbest shit to try and break it and have had great success recovering every time.

The key in my experience is OODLES of bandwidth. It LOVES fat pipes. In my case 2x 40Gbps link on all 5 servers.

Nah, that’d be mean. It isn’t “simple” by any stretch. It’s an aggregation of a lot of hours put into it. What’s fun is that when it gets that big you start putting tools together to do a lot of the work/diagnosing for you. A good chunk of those tools have made it into production for my companies too.

LibreNMS to tell me what died when… Wazuh to monitor most of the security aspects of it all. I have a gitea instance with my own repos for scripts when it comes maintenance time. Centralized stuff and a cron stub on the containers/vms can mean you update all your stuff in one go

40 ssds as my osds… 5 hosts… all nodes are all functions (monitor/manager/metadataservers), if I added more servers I would not add any more of those… (which I do have 3 more servers for “parts”/spares… but could turn them on too if I really wanted to.

2x 40gbps networking for each server.

Since upstream internet is only 8gbps I let some vms use that bandwidth too… but that doesn’t eat into enough to starve Ceph at all. There’s 2x1gbps for all the normal internet facing services (which also acts as an innate rate limiter for those services).

I could… But it would be a royal pain in the ass to find a VPS that has a clean address to use (especially for email operations).

Exactly this. 2 phase into house, batteries on each leg. While it would be exceedingly rare for just one phase to go out… i can in theory weather that storm indefinitely.

Nope 240. I have 2x 120v legs.

I actually had verizon home internet (5g lte) to do that… but i need static addresses for some services. I’m still working that out a bit…

Fire extinguisher is in the garage… literal feet from the server. But that specific problem is actually being addressed soon. My dad is setting up his cluster and I fronted him about 1/2 the capacity I have. I intend to sync longterm/slow storage to his box (the truenas box is the proxmox backup server target, so also collects the backups and puts a copy offsite).

Slow process… Working on it :) Still have to maintain my normal job after all.

Edit: another possible mitigation I’ve seriously thought about for “fire” are things like these…

https://hsewatch.com/automatic-fire-extinguisher/

Or those types of modules that some 3d printer people use to automatically handle fires…

Absurdly safe.

Proxmox cluster, HA active. Ceph for live data. Truenas for long term/slow data.

About 600 pounds of batteries at the bottom of the rack to weather short power outages (up to 5 hours). 2 dedicated breakers on different phases of power.

Dual/stacked switches with lacp’d connections that must be on both switches (one switch dies? Who cares). Dual firewalls with Carp ACTIVE/ACTIVE connection…

Basically everything is as redundant as it can be aside from one power source into the house… and one internet connection into the house. My “single point of failures” are all outside of my hands… and are all mitigated/risk assessed down.

I do not use cloud anything… to put even 1/10th of my shit onto the cloud it’s thousands a month.

Week? I’m betting on hours.

The site is already available in HTTPS. Why would you even serve content non-encrypted?

If you need an education on the matter… Here you go. https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/why-use-https/

“I don’t handle sensitive information on my website so I don’t need HTTPS”

A common reason websites don’t implement security is because they think it’s overkill for their purposes. After all, if you’re not dealing with sensitive data, who cares if someone is snooping? There are a few reasons that this is an overly simplistic view on web security. For example, some Internet service providers will actually inject advertising into HTTP-served websites. These ads may or may not be in line with the content of the website, and can potentially be offensive, aside from the fact that the website provider has no creative input or share of the revenue. These injected ads are no longer feasible once a site is secured.
Modern web browsers now limit functionality for sites that are not secure. Important features that improve the quality of the website now require HTTPS. Geolocation, push notifications and the service workers needed to run progressive web applications (PWAs) all require heightened security. This makes sense; data such as a user’s location is sensitive and can be used for nefarious purposes.

I don’t feel the need to be your teacher. You can easily google why you should always be using HTTPS. There’s numerous reason… all overwhelmingly obvious. Forget the basic “Not every ISP is an angel, and they all will collect as much information as they can get”. But I already said that… “It’s still best practice to limit sniffing.” Not sure why I need to elaborate any more on that. Very much akin to “why close your window blinds”, because nobody likes a peeping tom.

Ultimately for this specific website it’s literally changing a couple lines of code in their apache or nginx instance (or whatever proxy they’re using). It’s called best practice for a reason.

Edit: Hell it’s even a bit more of a guarantee that your site makes it to the consumer unaltered. Would be odd for that site to have it’s packets intercepted and midget porn be added to every page wouldn’t it? Think that would hurt the guys reputation?

An SSL here is nothing more than security theater, or marketing.

Or like I already said… is best practice.

Why would the lack of SSL concern you?

Because it means my traffic to that site is in the clear. And while we’re not transacting anything sensitive necessarily. It’s still best practice to limit sniffing.

Automatically swapping to https should be default behavior for every website.

I just want to point out the Technitium project as an alternative to unbound and bind resolver as well.

Regardless, it’s really easy to setup your own DNS resolver that resolves to DNS roots.