What's running in my HomeLab?

If you've ever wondered what servers, networking, NAS, and even low power PCs I am running in my HomeLab, here it is!
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[@wildlonewolf5506]

This video called me poor in 25 different ways..😢😂

[@TechnoTim]

Sorry!

[@savvyshopperr]

@@TechnoTimWhat was the total cost of everything

[@nifigasebe]

Good network admin can easily stole all this rack from work 😅

[@bopal93]

@@savvyshopperr You don't ask that question to the homelabbers.

[@seanh8546]

​@savvyshopperr if I had to guess, about a house mortgage

[@AlexandrOakway]

That's enough to power a reasonably sized office to a pretty high standard, that is no longer a home lab, that is an entire production network

[@syrialyze7654]

There's a subreddit for that! forget /r/homelab, it's /r/homedataserver

[@sylviam6535]

Most offices don’t even need 2.5 Gb Ethernet for regular users.

[@IanBPPK]

​@@sylviam6535multigig to APs is, however, pretty standard now.

[@nxxynx5039]

Most offices run off of a bootleg Microsoft Office account and a shared outlook account 😅

[@cocacola3269]

1gig is en😂

[@bedri1]

"home lab" = he runns multiple moon missions

[@zedus4042]

Wouldn't something like today's average phone be able to run hundreds of "moon missions" with its power if we compare it to the computer used in 1969?

[@channel-ch2hc]

​@@zedus4042still believe moon landing is real

[@Cryo_Gen]

@@zedus4042 a Casio solar calculator has more horsepower that the apollo 11 mission

[@zedus4042]

@@Cryo_Gen lmao yeah, that's why I thought that a modern phone could probably run hundreds or thousands of Apollo type missions.

[@eoghancullen]

I have similar, plugged into my neighbours power

[@xArratax]

We almost all started like this 😂 keep going. Upgrade if necessary - not for flex! Im running a mini office pc with proxmox. That's all i need at the moment. It works and its cheap! With this minimal setup i host a pi-hole, bitwarden and a Fileserver. 😅

[@epochphilosophy]

My wallet hurts looking at this. But my heart yearns.

[@StaK_1980]

You and me both, man. You and me both...

[@honaker326]

To be honest, I bet his power bill isn't bad. His 48 port POE switch is probably using the most power as a single device and the rest are barely sipping. The specs on the 48 port is 720W of total POE power and up to 150W to run the actual unit at full tilt. The next highest sipper might be the hypervisor. The rest are barely doing any power consumption. I love nucs for clusters/hypervisors. The power savings are too good and small form factor.

[@Maxjk0]

Oh yeah i raise you: old pc sitting in the corner hooked up to my router

[@gergelysoki1705]

Now show us ur electricity bill.

[@abel4776]

$0... He probably has an Enphase/SolarEdge/Tesla rig.

[@TK27319]

​@abel4776, what would the monthly be for the loan to buy that system?

[@abel4776]

@@TK27319 Solar system? I'm guessing 15k to 30k.

[@whyomgwhywtf]

That is a home office business expense. It doesn't matter what the power bill is, the portion required to power the rack is a tax deduction.

[@555calex]

@@abel4776 ; Yeah, that's my guess and even that might not be enough...

[@Prevok]

At this point, I don't think it qualifies as a home lab. I've seen businesses with worst setup.

[@joelnrs]

I think a good word to summarize your set up would be overkill. I love it!

[@-Good4Y0u]

This must be where all the KZbin ad rev goes

[@TechnoTim]

Ha! I wish it paid for more than 1u of it 🤣

[@MrTschip]

and this my electricity bill 😂

[@AlienXSoftware]

Hi Tim, love the setup. Are you planning on making a end of year "What software do i run in my homelab" type video, going over that part? We've seen your hardware and it'll be nice to see what you're running on it now, and perhaps what you plan on running on it in 2024 :)

[@TechnoTim]

That's the plan! I do it every year!

[@AlienXSoftware]

Fantastic, looking forward to the video. My homelab grew a lot in 2023 and I'm looking around for ideas!

[@JasonBrain]

Your home lab rack is worth more than my home.

[@vincentnthomas1]

That is so fucking overkill 😂

[@spearian]

A home lab with a fully patched 48 port switch? Why would you need so many patches at home?

[@ponkeyplonkey6969]

I don't understand anything you just said but looks really cool

[@Gren4te]

Oi. Is that the new pro max switch with etherlighting? Never thought I’d see the day with RGB in enterprise apparel, but yet here we are. It is kinda neat for high density racks where you can easily identify the port and cable for a specific thing though.

[@wyattbottorff2473]

Im interested in learning enough to do a small home lab I do a lot of organic work making fertilizers, raising livestock, growing crop plants, and I also dabble in designing off grid networks that automate essential processes like homemade HVAC, security systems, lab test results, etc. Individually I handle these things well but Im only now really getting into networking everything together, automatically writing data from cams and environmental sensors to storage drives.

[@Honzo64]

Really cool setup! What is the the rackmount that you use for the NUC cluster?

[@bjw8qsrmhgxn4wwk30]

Ubiquiti and enterprise need not be in the same sentence. It's Soho at best.

[@droidbhai2145]

What you do at home after using these setup please tell in detail because most of the people don't understand such a nice setup

[@exaltedb]

My home lab is in its early stages, being two old pcs and a pi 3b+ wired to a 4-port switch. Planning to put k3s on it as I’m entirely new to this

[@davidg.250]

Nice Fridge mate.. :p

[@cjhackerz]

You have my dream setup but i am yet figure out owning house of my own, love your vids, i got job in application security because of your homelab videos i setup CI/CD security testing playground and demo it during interview. All running on intel nuc mini PC 32gb ram, ubuntu vms containers, pfsense vpn to access vm LAN etc.

[@ShoaibChaudary]

Me, who only owns a pc with 4 storage devices enough for me. watching this server thing. Interesting stuff 😅

[@MrTechnician_]

Can’t wait for the software/services video! 😮

[@TechnoTim]

Soon!

[@muafaa]

computers in a showcase

[@spyware1100]

How much power does it draw? Electric bills must have skyrocketed

[@terrabyte-techy]

That's so cool. What is the use case of all that computing power?

[@StellarEnvoy]

I have the same case you are going to switch out for your conversion! It's honestly been a bit of a hassle, so planning to replace it hopefully.

[@RobberClobber]

A single good Epyc processor would like a word with your NUCs 😉

[@bigkahunauk1]

Would help if you gave the reason for your setup?

[@pingpt]

Hi Tim, I saved A LOT of space in terms of cable management using the ubiquiti cat6 cables, they’re a lot thinner. I used to have all cat8.1 very thick like yours, and everything became a lot easier with the ubiquiti ones. Just a suggestion 😊

[@IanBPPK]

There's a few alternatives too like Monoprice SlimRun. Not strictly recommended for high wattage PoE but I've run flex mini's without issue.

[@Austin_159]

Damn two hue hubs? Somebody has a LOT of hue lights. At very least 51 but... Gonna guess more then that lol.

[@TechnoTim]

Funny, I just posted a picture today on my twitter, I now have 4 hubs....

[@pau1phi11ips]

What's the wattage?

[@OShackHennessy]

All of them

[@ulyssesmullins3181]

Over 9000

[@user-sl4th2pu1z]

overkill

[@_JoeMomma]

I need a backup and recovery server so bad but need to blow stupid money away at SSDs for a server. One day it’ll be love and my conscious will be a little bit calmer…. Just a little…. Need to get azure blob storage for data to rest

[@UKsystems]

Enterprise sas SSD and sas hard drives are very cheap on babe because people buy them for computers accidentally

[@hlubradio2318]

I have multiple computers attached to a switch with a few laptops running virtual machines

[@brunobmartim]

What a beautiful masterpiece you have in your house. This is a dream that everyone what to owns.

[@ClacKeyTech]

aggregation pro🤤 built in 2 of those in my schools network cabinet

[@CoolJZero1]

Its Beautiful!

[@ExitSignAficionado]

I have a 5 port gigabit auto managed switch in the basement plugged into the old cat5e phonelines that I put rj45 ports on each end. At the attic I have a wired hotspot pulling 5g from a nearby cell tower. No waps on the network at all. Power consumption is not worth talking about

[@Metaman9000]

very cool!

[@TheKingTywinLannister]

Beautiful

[@rsomel6628]

I want one now… but won’t be able to get… unless…

[@cklennie1]

Enough with a mod or 2 for an ops centre 💯💎

[@Chuuchuu0]

That looks so beautiful 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@user-wk9nn4hq3t]

Крутая сборка

[@shawnmcqueen3488]

home lab!!

[@ejwebsites2452]

I've seen business with way less equipment than that

[@jlr_]

Damn, how many people do you have living at home? lol and I thought my set up was overkill

[@UKsystems]

Most of it is redundancy

[@Alex-bc3xe]

He runs his own AWS wtf

[@Nathan15038]

I’ma need that😂😊

[@iiitsjean]

Meanwhile my servers are 2 connected phones LOL😂😂

[@jorad4887]

what brand of servers would you recommend for a small and medium size business?

[@dandogamer]

Damn that's impressive, I would love to build a home lab but I dont know where to start?!

[@cklennie1]

eBay Amazon ,,even used as these run for years 🎯👌😊

[@19Elicar]

That cool what do you used it for?

[@Yiep_]

This is great

[@rynax009]

I just have a 32 cores server all in one esxi. including router openwrt vm, firewall pfsense vm, pihole vm, storage nas unraid vm, performance nas truenas vm, and other vm having scsi disks from truenas or direct passed through didks .

[@computersales]

Something I've been wondering recently is why do we put our switches on the front other than for cooling reasons? I think when I redo my rack here I'm going to put all my switches on the back since that's where the ports on my stuff is located.

[@rajivravio]

Yes it’s not logical, why is it designed that way?

[@SuperSpecies]

In data centres, switches are often put at the back. You need to get the reversed fan modules for them to maintain hot/cold aisle separation.

[@ofadiman]

Bro is living in 2077

[@SirWallace2]

Homelab? Thats suitable for a medium sized Business

[@whyomgwhywtf]

I want a ubiquity sponsorship!!

[@aliens1990990]

Who wouldn't!

[@bluemagic3800]

bro all of this could've been just 1 pc

[@nalo1728]

4-5 kwh of power right there. so roughly 9.6$ a day @0.10$ a kwh.

[@WReCk3000]

Just curious, for a setup that size, is there really a benefit to the 10gig aggregation device?

[@alainsabum]

Add a firewall let’s see

[@dancingpotato4899]

What does aggregation do and what device are you using for it?

[@jacobbrown8561]

Nice!!!! How much $$$$ that cost?

[@vitalis]

For homelad aficionados, do you guys do it as a hobby or you actually gain/save money with it?

[@topofwoodleague7180]

for a big setup with a lot of equipment, i'd imagine the vast majority of personal users spend more and just treat it as a hobby, but you can get a lot of functionality out of an old pc or laptop and certainly save yourself time and money.

[@ZonkedCompanion]

My "homelab" (cringe) consists of a 10 year old HP hypervisor, a qnap NAS and some networking gear, the cost of the electricity = roughly the same cost of the equivalent cloud services. The only advantage of doing this is I have complete control over what I can do with it. In reality when you take maintanence into account it would be cheaper to use cloud services over the course of a year.

[@Jose-og909]

Seems like tech for the sake of tech

[@Extra_Mental]

I dont get why people do that with the short patch leads, yeah it looks nice but the point of patch panels is to easily reroute patch ports, might as well wire the cables in directly to the switch

[@Prevok]

Typically it's to prevent damaging the drops. Once connected to the patch panel, the drops are pretty secure. If you damage the patch, it's super cheap to replace.

[@mv_292]

What’s that black box below the raspi in the wall? What are you running in the raspy/esp that cannot do any pc?

[@RottenRyebread]

But what do you do for your hot aisle? Does it just go into the room out the top?

[@ihorvenhliuk8206]

Unglaublich 😮

[@marongayo3217]

I don't know what happens in these things but I wish I owned one

[@henryd4331]

For a mere 10,000 W 😂

[@rynax009]

nuc cluster

[@earthchanger604]

What do you do on it i always wanted to knoe if a home server is worth it

[@bldrxyz]

for somebody who pretends to be enterprise level you have a lot of unifi boxes running

[@quackoramic]

How much did your total setup (everything in the rack and on the wall) cost you?

[@beakerwsw]

The ubiquiti stuff is probably around 6k, I know my 10 gig switch was like 1800

[@eopest]

I wanna see the electrical bill.

[@raggedclawstarcraft6562]

This is my homeland lab. What do I do with it? Run a minecraft server [:

[@jeslinmx22]

Homelab with minecraft creative mode

[@blankenfelderstubenadler8006]

I have only a router, 3 pc 2 tablet and one mobile phone. I dont need more. That eqiipment would be too much 😂

[@pravadonisproductions6399]

I obviously don’t know as much as I should about computers and network servers

[@Austin_159]

Why you say that? What do you have questions or wondering about?

[@nqomax]

😂This guy is the reason I now call mine a "homelab" yeah.. With quotes😔

[@TechnoNates]

All to run a media server 👻

[@Digi-nv9ut]

OK but how to monetise the latest skills?!

[@bluesquare23]

How long did it take you? I’ve got a few and it’s a mess and I want to add more but that’s only going to make it more of a rats nest. Your is so clean. Mine is made of 2x4s and standard 10+ year old atx boards. Wish I wasn’t broke :(

[@seesharpist]

Looks amazing! What cabinet is that?

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks! You can see it all (along with the full video) here technotim.live/posts/homelab-hardware-tour-2023/

[@seesharpist]

​@@TechnoTim great, thanks!

[@nicoswiatecki9314]

Do you have the components for the Intel Nuc Cluster? I am currently considering whether to take a Nuc Cluster or three self-built servers. It would be great if you had a few links or even a video of yourself.

[@TechnoTim]

Links in the full video which is linked here 😀. Or l.technotim.live/gear

[@hamzahdwahdeh7606]

Sophous firewall is not really a firewall 😂

[@steve_main]

on $300/month in electricity costs. Seriously though this sounds like a lot of money in energy! Not to mention this is about $2K+ in hardware !! I love the look of this but the frugal side of me says nope...

[@TechnoTim]

A lot lower on the energy bill and a lot high on the hardware cost 😅

[@steve_main]

@@TechnoTim haha I can imagine..

[@jgalela]

I am curious... How much is your power bill?

[@thespecialist75]

What's on thr wall, and why 2 hue hubs?

[@mv_292]

Same question!

[@shadowrob7709]

unifi = Enterprice = Joke 2023 ^^ you can replace the whole rack with 1 server and have even more power ^^

[@andrewenglish3810]

where is your redundant power setup? The PDU and the APC UPS right now are the single point of failure.

[@GATTY22]

All that thing for a computer, and too much electronic radiation

[@rachonavisagrawijna5951]

For real, I am questioning Sometimes i am seeing like this Short or Video, i kinda curious and want to have but doesn't know for what purpose Can you please tell me what purpose of your homelab? What people do with these kind of setup?

[@TechnoTim]

You're welcome to check out the full video where I explain everything!