A quick look at my homelab.

I have a small homelab in my basement. Bits bits bytes bytes you know.

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

I uploaded a new video to answer a few of the questions people asked in the comments about my homelab. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYSqfaWwiNp2qq8

[@romayojr]

really incredible stuff - thanks for sharing your HL and answering the questions.

[@ryanmalone2681]

That’s not a homelab. That’s a corporate DATACENTER that happens to be located in your home.

[@Merrlin]

Casual IDF in a closet, nbd 😂

[@AlexanderWeurding]

I think you should go work in IT, think it would fit you right... "little" server room :P / Love the power monitor screen!

[@Gamez4eveR]

Punching in his name in Google seems to indicate he's a CTO so it checks out

[@RainMan52]

was about to say...

[@ryanmalone2681]

@@Gamez4eveR I’m a CTO at one the biggest banks in the world and my Homelab isn’t anything close to that. Being a CTO explains nothing. That shit is crazy. For the next video I want to know what type of porn he’s downloading and distributing! 😉

[@sutty101]

Sir you are a datacenter with a home on top of it.

[@dankatapich]

Agree👍🏻

[@Nossody]

power company thinking wtf

[@danilocianfrone670]

@@Nossody well, he uses solar, so maybe the power company doesn't ever register that

[@fr3ze_]

@@danilocianfrone670 aint no way he powers that 10kW draw by solar panels located on top of his house. but then again, this aint a "homelab" either so he might just have a "HomePowerplant" located next door too lol

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Yes, Solar does help some, but only on sunny days. In the summer my solar (53 panels) produces about 15kw for most of the day, but in the winter most days peak at 3-5kw, and sometimes 0. In net Solar makes about 1/3 of the power that I use.. so it helps, but I would need another 100 panels to be grid independent.

[@Denis-in6ur]

"So what are you running on these machines?" "Just a small minecraft server"

[@StephenHoldaway]

I'm genuinely curious about this - one person can only generate so much load I would have thought..? Maybe his other hobbies include high-resolution weather forecasting, flow simulations, FPGA synthesis, and building images for large embedded systems I guess it might be entirely for fun, since maintaining that amount of hardware and systems is a hobby itself. I'd certainly buy some overkill hardware for fun if money wasn't a factor

[@SusanPowers-wj2ow]

It’s all about convincing other corporations that AWS is just too expensive. I’ve got one client alone that requires 75 VMs. They could go to AWS and spend 75k at least, or they could pay someone to built it themselves.

[@Fiftykilowatt]

and a jellyfin for the kids lol

[@chrisl3540]

@@StephenHoldaway surely he needs this for all 32 of his KZbin videos.

[@HR-rt9nh]

@@SusanPowers-wj2ow this set up is more than $75K

[@theseabass]

Least sophisticated Linux user's backup solution:

[@_Lumiere_]

Linux users' setups are either a tin can or a server facility, nothing in between.

[@abdul201388]

"Homelab" 😂

[@johnharrison712]

Homelab to get views

[@pablopoo]

"pretty simple stuff", having a more advanced datacenter than any small business 😄

[@tollav]

Anything is a homelab if your brave enough

[@TheTorsti]

exactly what i was thinking about 🙂

[@sergylopez21]

How did you comment 1 month ago?😮

[@TechnoTim]

The next person who says my homelab is overkill I will promptly link this video to them. This is next level.

[@RyanMBananas]

My homelab consists of one used 1u dual zeon server 😂

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Your homelab still is overkill to me.

[@RyanMBananas]

@@BrunodeSouzaLino it started with an old dell optiplex. It takes time! I hope you get your dream homelab!!!

[@stocky9803]

Yeah this is incredible Anyone want to take bets on how many VMs he actually needs xD Nevertheless, awesome stuff

[@18Wheeled_Ray]

get em dude lol this guys stuff is a tru mini dc in his hoouse with grafana

[@ulqi]

"A quick look at my homelab." said the guy running Netflix from his basement

[@vulcan4d]

The best part of coming home from a day full of IT work, is more IT work.

[@kefsound]

yay, unpaid labor.

[@dondayday]

Yes.

[@gustavoarantes6156]

Dude has a whole AWS Region bellow his house and called it a homelab

[@JuniorShepherd]

I'm an AWS employee and I think this might not be a bad assertion at all. ha!

[@DG-kr8pt]

Yea and uses big word and symbolisms to sound smart for no reason. Bet he has a lot of reddit karma too.

[@Commission_]

@@DG-kr8pt "me dumb dumb, me no understand big word"

[@DG-kr8pt]

@@Commission_ I meant initialism not symbolism, but if you want to know what symbolism means you should be able to just google it.

[@lgfs]

"Tell me you've got a lot of money and ocd without telling me you've got a lot of money and ocd."

[@tobywhiting10]

So apparently he's CTO at some American healthcare corporation.

[@absak]

@@tobywhiting10ah yes, money

[@fxlltxtsearch]

@@absakwell also I mean. You have all those servers, they wouldnt be running for no reason. They serve customers clearly

[@TheLegoPerson]

​@@fxlltxtsearchum, no. This is a homelab. It's for home use. I'm sure he manages an even more impressive setup at a real DC where the customer data and services are running from. Running customer services and storing customer data at a CTO's house would be frowned upon to put it lightly

[@PhantomPhobos]

@@fxlltxtsearch A single one of those racks probably costs the cumulative salary of my life so far. In his following video he says its all home automation and shit, guy is a super nerd, why waste precious CPU cycles on making money 🤣

[@AviatorXD]

"I have a small homelab in my basement", casually shows a whole data center.

[@FaraiKowo]

Without a doubt, this is the most impressive "homelab" I've come across. The meticulous attention to detail and organization is truly remarkable.

[@DavidImmermans]

Except a bunch of cardboard and paper stuff in the UPS room ... electricity and cardboard/paper ?? really ?

[@JeffGeerling]

HomelabHaven

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Thanks Jeff... I need to add a couple of those Turning PI setups with RK1s!

[@pixselious]

Don’t see any raspberry pies! Blasphemy!

[@syrus3k]

This is bananas. Let me guess, you serve a static html page from this..

[@d.lasher]

but the power bill...

[@sepitbeats]

Bro about to become a cloud storage server

[@andikadioey4680]

this "Home Lab" setup is better than my ISP 😁😁😁

[@derpythecate6842]

To quote the guy, its just a "Little lab" 😂

[@heyheyhophop]

​@@derpythecate6842at least not THE little one 😅

[@Nurse_Xochitl]

Meanwhile me with 1.5 mbps Centurylink DSL... 🤬

[@theflyingdutchman22]

finally met the guy who still runs the cs 1.6 servers. Thank you for your service! Greatly appreciated.

[@SalemTechsperts]

"This lab also happens to run a small company called Cloudflare" Just kidding, super cool setup man! Thank you for sharing this!

[@Voigt_Analytics]

This is what most companies call a enterprise datacenter 😂

[@udirt]

that's because most 5 person shops love to call themselves an 'enterprise'

[@kairatkempirbaev7183]

​@@udirt I have a feeling it has enough power to serve multiple companies with 5K+ employees each for many many years.

[@_lenn.box_]

@@kairatkempirbaev7183 no way... lets say each of these servers in his rack has 128 cores (which i don't really think) he would need 78 of them to give 5K people each just 2 cores (5000*2/128).

[@kefsound]

No.

[@Trains-With-Shane]

Your local energy co-op thanks you for your patronage.

[@josealfredfernandes]

$100+ per bill. $1200 per year bill.

[@hipster2283]

@@josealfredfernandes if only it were that low

[@StephenHoldaway]

Yeah, a 10kW load is easily 1-2K USD per month 😅

[@josealfredfernandes]

@@hipster2283 come to India, Goa. It is this low here.

[@josealfredfernandes]

@@StephenHoldaway For 10 units per hour(10KW per hour) we pay rs 70 ($1 usd) approx.

[@NicholasRenotte]

😮 lawd. You could save on heating by just rerouting a few exhaust fans back into the lounge room. Seriously though this is freaking amazing 🙌🏽

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Indeed - I do have an economizer that pulls in outside cool air and vents the warm air into one of the lower garage labs - So I do get a little bit usable heat out of it in the winter.

[@CloroxBleach-hi6jd]

@@jeffsponaugle6339lol you sound like a loser

[@HTWW]

@jeffsponaugle6339 ... Into 'one of' the 'lower garage' labs. So let's break this statement down a little... You have multiple labs in your house. Normally, multiple simply means >1. You, however, have at least 2 labs in your 'lower' garage. Meaning that you have at least two garages. And, since you had to specify which garage you're talking about, I'm assuming that you gave labs in both/all of them. ... Are you running the Oregon branch of the Institute (Fallout)? Should we be worried? Do you offer unpaid internships in exchange for security guarantees? Edit: all jokes aside, this setup of yours looks absolutely epic. I used to work at a 'flag carrier' of a relatively big hotel chain, and there I had occasional access to their server room (I think it ran the majority of the VM array for the whole company). It can't ever compare. There, I would see filthy racks caked with dust and grime, poor ventilation, non-existent temperature control, dim lighting... And here... This! Major props to you, my man!

[@CloroxBleach-hi6jd]

@@jeffsponaugle6339 loser

[@santirubio3001]

The most humble homelab I've ever seen! It looks super clean, nice work!

[@Crand0m]

10kW power draw?? Insane. At my local electricity rates you're spending (or losing from not exporting solar) over $100/day or $38,000/year on electricity alone.

[@Crand0m]

10kW and it's *not all on yet*!

[@vincei4252]

I have a couple servers that draw 3.6kW each, I went 100% solar with battery backup. The good thing is I don't need those servers powered up all the time. Makes no sense to do so. All my machines have remote power management so I can power them up and down from afar.

[@StillConfusing]

ok I gotta ask what's the rate in your area? cuz where i am it's about 0.11 USD / kWh

[@romainseb1094]

That is cheap, for me it's 0.25€ / kWh = 0.27 USD / kWh

[@controlandpower]

For me it's $0.07/kWh so hopefully his is around that mark

[@osaether]

Nice video! I love your modesty: "I have a small homelab", "pretty simple stuff",... 🙂

[@maptopia3358]

I am currently a college student for Computer Networking, and this video is such a huge motivation for me to keep learning so I can have a dream lab like this.

[@CapsLock33]

I love the setup. So simple and clean.

[@InterFelix]

This is absolutely and I love it. I work in IT infrastructure and none of my SMB customers have as many servers as you. The really big enterprise customers are a different story (4PB redundant object storage cluster anyone?), but my SMB customers basically all have 4-8 servers max.

[@jimmyrogers918]

I used to do corporate IT and with SMB's if you have 3+ physical servers, that's a customer that's investing in their infrastructure. It's different.

[@james.telfer]

SMB owner, 20 staff: We've got 5 physical hosts (self built prosumer parts), 1 rack and a few NAS for backup (to 3 locations). Don't even have space for a server room!

[@todd1748]

Linus would be JEALOUS AF!

[@chbrules]

Linus should be. He's horrible when it comes to enterprise IT.

[@1985jhoward]

I highly doubt he is jealous af.

[@BloodyEpicG4m3rZ]

Which one 😂

[@ChillerDragon]

@@BloodyEpicG4m3rZ Torvalds Tech Tipps

[@Redknight535]

@@chbrules that's not his skill set tho

[@ardonbailey2654]

One of the coolest setups I’ve seen in a home

[@DougsGarden]

very great video please continue creating. Ive been researching building something like this for years now and this video is extremely beneficial to me. thanks

[@CihanDokur]

"Homelab" understanding has reached another level. good job!

[@MrTesna]

crazy stuff, even my office does not have that much kind of equipment lol. good job

[@Haimas]

Ha , the company I work for has multiple factories and our primarry server room has barly half of this , with 1G switches :)

[@ChrisFredriksson]

... WOW! So beautiful made and so much FUN stuff in there, I'm jealous! What an awesome server room you got ❤

[@TheInfamousToTo]

Jeff : so there we are this is the little lab everyone else : 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[@caarlos0]

apparently we have different definitions of homelab yours is pretty dope!

[@tylertc1]

Okay so I love this - but this level of home lab - like what are you doing - please help me understand so I can also have the excuse to build this big.

[@lextacy2008]

He is just running Outlook Express on Windows XP. It lets him send two emails at once.

[@wlockuz4467]

Plays Minecraft with his 3 friends

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

probably tor node

[@Sai-hc6il]

The car pp, the low effort chad thumbnail and the raw format i love it.

[@moekazi6564]

Absolutely stunning lab. Beauty!

[@technologyLife20203]

Do you backup data for the NSA or something? gawd dang

[@user-jw8jn7lh8c]

hes the neighborhood gov surveillance center, where do you think the insects retreat to when no ones around to be watched?

[@tokyodrifte1991]

All that to run Plex & Home Assistant 😂

[@bluesquare23]

Yeah but it’s gotta be a huge plex server. That many jbods it’s gotta be petabytes. Unless he’s using old ass low cap drives in there, but given the rest don’t think so.

[@SBlazeable]

@@bluesquare23 I struggle to fill 15T with media I'd be interested to see a petabyte collection, now that's next level.

[@user-ur5mm2hd8v]

Wow, so inspirational! I hope that someday I will be able to make a lab like this at my home. Thanks for sharing!

[@ssmith5048]

Simply beautiful. Nice cable mgmt as well. This is certainly a corner of nerdvana!

[@rocus80m]

We call it - cablep*rn!

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

I will post a video tomorrow answering the single most asked question - What do I do with all this stuff!

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Let met get my bingo card! ;)

[@AlexanderWeurding]

Surescripts ? / Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality. Sounds pretty cool.

[@stkmp4170]

we are waiting in anticipation

[@nichodula]

can't wait to see it.

[@Nathandontknowwhattosay]

how much does it cost to build? give us a summary how u built it what company provided the server or did you built it your self? i have so much questions

[@HksF16]

Those storage drives are surely storing some stuff...

[@josealfredfernandes]

Mostly corporate stuff. You can store. Maybe KZbin video editing, maybe some corporate files etc. No one spends money for plex media servers because all the data is mostly considered p1r@cy. Trust me, your ISP will see your t0®®ents of 50+ gb per movie and impose speed cap or terminate your connection. Because it has legal consequences on their ISP licence. Typical homelab or self hoisted companies do need such equipment maybe to hoist their own websites, apps, GPU clusters, nas for employees for maybe sharing files for editing etc. As long as you earn from these, it's good. Earning $1 million a year and investing $1 million for equipment is not much because roi is just 1 year. Then profit profit minus the cost of maintenance and recurring investment like internet leased line, firewall subscription etc. Note: I do not recommended mining or p1r@cy of games/movies/tv shows etc. He surely uses his homelab to support and run his business.

[@Botanical4038]

@@josealfredfernandes I on the other hand do recommend sailing the high seas.

[@HksF16]

@@Botanical4038 Arr Arr brother, keep them seeded.

[@josealfredfernandes]

@@Botanical4038 😹 conversations like these scares me down to my spine.

[@Macrike]

@@josealfredfernandes”Trust me bro, your ISP sees your torrents” No they don’t. 😂😂😂 Ever heard of seedbox + VPN? Please… We’re not rookies here. 😂

[@shaunlavoie6183]

Thanks for the video that I can show my wife when she thinks my homelab is too crazy! 😅

[@renesamaral1]

What’s up. Greetz from Brasil my dear Friend. I am pretty happy to see your HomeLab. Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉 The best homelab I see sow far

[@lordmushroom723]

dude wtf man, I have a single dell poweredge r730 running on residential outlet. This is next level ;)

[@MattO-hu8cd]

Million dollar server and electrical setup, 20 dollar chair / desk combo.

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Fortunately, I don't sit there much!

[@UnicastAdministrators-mc3nn]

This is the dream of every IT enthusiast :D I really like how this looks, especially the part where you monitor everything with Grafana on your monitor outside the room :D :)

[@Alberto.81]

This can be an MDF room for a mid-sized company. Really like how you keep the cabling net and clean. You did a great job. Oh boy let me say there is lot of money invested in this !

[@momomaz2516]

"this is My little lab" then pulls out an entire datacenter

[@thykesabre8033]

Holy shit, "Homelab" My ass🤣🤣 This is awesome, Please made some more content with this stuff, its dope

[@austinlux3293]

this is amazing. I am so glad this showed up on my feed.

[@nadtz]

I've done work for mid sized companies with less hardware than that setup. That is clean from the power to the wiring, well done.

[@FunningRast]

Watch his other videos. This guy is into everything. Amazing.

[@0fg4]

Walter White: "Let me show you my home lab. It's downstairs."

[@SPARTANTRAD3S]

This is the coolest shit I have seen set up in a home in a long time.

[@jacekruzyczka3058]

The LED rack illumination looks really cool! 🙂I once equuipped two racks with RGB LED reflectors when presenting our rack-mount chassis on CeBIT. This was in 2005/06.

[@deleuzersig]

So how much time do you send on running this place? Looks like a full time job!

[@arrueintegralnetworks1987]

Wow yeah thats a DATACENTER, I have a HOMELAB, and my wife thinks I spend too much in my 5K Network 😆😅 thanks for sharing you inspire me 🙌💪

[@gt-simdriver6716]

I LOVE IT!!!! Living the dream you are!

[@OneLoveDigital]

Randomly found your channel. OMG this video. Thanks for sharing!

[@JonathanSwiftUK]

Homelab? You may have gone too far. My advice, get an infrastructure job like mine, where you occasionally go to data centers, do it for 30+ years, then you will no longer have an obsession with data centers, racks, etc, and you'll be satisfied with a powerful tower PC, and a few mini PCs. We have now migrated 1200 servers from ESX on-prem to Azure, so the office Comms room, in my office, is about the same as your homelab. When I think of your energy bill I come out in a cold sweat !

[@ChristianJosephs]

This is the best comment so far... I just showed this to my wife and told her if you see me ever building something like this kick me out of the house :D

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Indeed - I did infrastructure.. built up data centers, BGP peering, lots of switching and routing, but that was in the late 90s as things were just starting to boom. I still enjoy this level of building perhaps because it is not my full time job. None the less I think any CTO should be able to not just talk architecture and strategy but also do and build.

[@JonathanSwiftUK]

​@@jeffsponaugle6339absolutely. If you can do it you certainly have an understanding of what it can do and can't, diagnosing problems gives insight, and honestly there is a pleasure in getting new systems installed, hooked up and doing useful work. Your other half tho, must have superhuman understanding. It is nice to see a small DC in somebody's home, but I wouldn't be happy with your electricity bill. But if you're happy that's what matters. 15-20 years ago if I had the space I might have done something similar.

[@hariranormal5584]

lol i'd like to do a DC job honestly. I have no experience so yeah

[@bcm50]

Now I’m curious on your ISP setup. Would love if you could elaborate on that.

[@ElmokillaXDK]

he is the isp lol

[@bcm50]

@@ElmokillaXDK he'd still have to have upstreams and peers lol, hes far far far away from being a transit-free network

[@RKBenchmarker]

Dang, I've got to up my game lol - Absolutely awesome!! Thx for sharing!

[@Mustafa-vz4uo]

great one bro my dream lab and house. but homelab what 😂😂. this is awesome lab

[@MichaelHughes124]

Bro, this is insane. Would love to know what the compute and storage is being used for...

[@daven6634]

Sweet Mary... Homelab is one SERIOUS understatement

[@TheCarmacon]

My guess is he was upset with IT in his company. He built this off-site to be independent and get his stuff done. Then IT found out and he was on the brink of getting fired. He showed the CEO his setup. CEO made him CTO.

[@MyFedora]

​@@TheCarmacon Shadow IT would be an understatement. This is a whole shadow enterprise IT department lol. Looks like multiple companies' technical infrastructure could run off of that one privately-owned corporate data center located in a guy's basement alone.

[@theaterdesignco]

Nice work. Great job colors coding the patch cables - often missed step!!

[@variancewithin]

meh. color coding patch cables is a pretty pointless thing. just follow the cable lol

[@Masicka123]

Absolutely gorgeous!

[@calvint3419]

OMG what do you do with these machines?

[@j.d.14]

Amazing!!!

[@Demoxx1]

that is awesome. I hope to have one of these in my house at some point

[@LawrenceSingha]

Absolutely excellent set-up 🤓

[@ceebee]

I'm not saying this as a joke, but that is literally not the definition of a homelab.

[@NiccyVan]

1: This is incredible. 2: Can I ask what all of this is for? I have a little server in my house for plex, cloud storage, data logging, and ML which is just a desktop tower. I can’t really imagine what you would do with all of this and would love to know.

[@vinsan98]

Exactly, I'm curious to know that too!

[@ipodtouchiscoollol]

my guess is he rents them out for profits

[@DJSolistica]

@@ipodtouchiscoollol Highly doubtful.

[@s.8494]

that's an awesome setup, I wish I can get something like this later in life.

[@Mmartins1097]

When you opened that door I literally shouted out DAMN 😍

[@anthonyr.589]

"IN Dexter's Laboratory.. lives the smartest boy you've ever seen... But DeeDee blows his experiments; to smithereens!!..."

[@iCrimzon]

Classic

[@randallsmith2521]

When you have "Pimp-Tier" homelab...

[@MikeB-np7co]

Wow. That looks fantastic!

[@AvBYedits]

when i get older i dream of having my own bunker, and this lights my heart 😅

[@Ruben-pq5iu]

I wanted to see where the Oompa Loompas live, that's too bad... 😪

[@joaoruss0]

Same :(

[@ismailtilki]

My Home Lab is a Raspberry Pi😎

[@gabrielporto.mikrotik]

Cool lab ya got there friend. I am going down that path too. Am building a basement on my house that’s gonna have two separate rooms for the DCs, a theater and a room for food storage. Your video inspired me even more. Thanks.

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Excellent!

[@ryanbaker7419]

Does the lab serve any purpose other than just building for fun? I'm genuinely curious

[@AntisepticHandwash]

Honestly this is probably not more expensive than a couple supercars, which a lot of richer people have. It's just this guy has the knowhow to build a dream computing system instead. Dope af 🤙

[@JeremyMeeler]

One question -- why? I love the idea of a server closet in my basement, but at this level it is way more cost effective to just colo it in a legitimate datacenter.

[@guytech7310]

That would costs a fortune to colo

[@ferni777]

Very nice and interesting video! thanks for the look

[@Eagle8_5]

Running everything in Germany for just one hour with our electricity costs means my financial ruin. What an amazing project, I'm really celebrating!

[@hidekxyz]

more like homedatacenter instead

[@sagittarius_sq4]

Your running a major cyber tech technology lab/ company from home you're dealing with a "teraflop's" of data in your mini data center. Its a sick set up!

[@ignazzioxyz]

The urban legends says that Goggle hires this guy "homelab" to backup their entire Drive Suite.

[@andre-le-bone-aparte]

Just found your channel - Excellent content - Another sub for you sir!

[@RyanTaylor03]

This is better than 95% of SME server rooms I've visited, it's data centre quality in a small form factor

[@DeltaMusicTV1]

Big Kid with Big Toys and Big Dreams. Keep it up, this is pretty much all of us's dream and Endgame. Cheers, Alex':)

[@276ent]

beautiful as hell honestly good work brother

[@WastedScriptz]

FBI bout to store top secret files in there! AMAZING work.. i can tell you put alot of love in this project and one day i hope to have something this dope..

[@Arkensor]

LED strips on the server racks hahaha, awesome.

[@matthewlewis8605]

Inspiring! Love it.

[@notmyregret]

From what I understand, it's recommended to replace your UPS batteries roughly every 1-2 years. Of course, I work at a company that requires 24/7 uptime and reliability so we service ours annually.

[@coocat231]

So this is the guy on r/homelab that everyone is jealous of... Edit: as a Grafana user myself, good job on using the superior monitoring ;)

[@jeffsponaugle6339]

Yea, Grafana is great and easy to use, especially if you have everything in InfluxDB.