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How did you build your own data center? Is it in your house, or renting a place somewhere? How much did it cost? I would be curious about any details you can s

How did you build your own data center? Is it in your house, or renting a place somewhere? How much did it cost? I would be curious about any details you can share.

bambax 2y ago
I self host on an NAS at home with a free Cloudfront CDN on top; it's really easy to do and for simple websites (including dynamic ones backed by an sqlite db) that don't receive excessive traffic, it works well and is almost free (since the NAS would be on in any case). Of course it wouldn't work for all cases but I find it beats having a vps somewhere that can be taken down for no reason at all.
- bdndndndbve 2y ago
  This is like saying "I got kicked off a plane so I bought a Civic and bolted a wing on the back". Cloud front is doing all the heavy lifting and you're not really getting data center level reliability.
  - bambax 2y ago
    Does a Civic fly when it has a wing bolted on it? Coz my setup serves pages alright.
    - SahAssar 2y ago
      Sure, but that is not what people will read when you say "I built my own data center". "I setup my own server" would be a lot less misleading.
      - bambax 2y ago
        I never said I built my own data center; I think you have me confused with the OP.
unixhero 2y ago
Os: Proxmox Hardware: 4x Old decommed 19" dells on Ebay with plenty of DDR4 memory, HP Proliant G10+ are also good Ups Eaton Pro Gigabit Fiber Internet, which is more than enough. 10-50mbit can suffice for compute nodes too. Bought ssds and m2 storage plus some spinning ols rust drives Temp and humidity monitoring Google Nest Protect smoke detector TP link 16amp smart plugs on all, to have a control plane to turn it all off remotely Workloads: Most are LXC Some Docker KVM virtual machines Zero trust: Some Cloudflare Tailscale Proxmox backup server to back it all up, lots of retention Monitoring: Deployed remote uptime monitoring on fly.io Read and experiment a lot Hang out on /r/homelab /r/homedatacenter and /r/selfhosted for learning, community and inspiration
unixhero 2y ago
I have space in my house, using up half a shed I have 1 gbit fiber

How did you build your own data center? Is it in your house, or renting a place somewhere? How much did it cost? I would be curious about any details you can share.

bambax 2y ago

I self host on an NAS at home with a free Cloudfront CDN on top; it's really easy to do and for simple websites (including dynamic ones backed by an sqlite db) that don't receive excessive traffic, it works well and is almost free (since the NAS would be on in any case). Of course it wouldn't work for all cases but I find it beats having a vps somewhere that can be taken down for no reason at all.

bdndndndbve 2y ago
This is like saying "I got kicked off a plane so I bought a Civic and bolted a wing on the back". Cloud front is doing all the heavy lifting and you're not really getting data center level reliability.
- bambax 2y ago
  Does a Civic fly when it has a wing bolted on it? Coz my setup serves pages alright.
  - SahAssar 2y ago
    Sure, but that is not what people will read when you say "I built my own data center". "I setup my own server" would be a lot less misleading.
    - bambax 2y ago
      I never said I built my own data center; I think you have me confused with the OP.

unixhero 2y ago

Os: Proxmox Hardware: 4x Old decommed 19" dells on Ebay with plenty of DDR4 memory, HP Proliant G10+ are also good Ups Eaton Pro Gigabit Fiber Internet, which is more than enough. 10-50mbit can suffice for compute nodes too. Bought ssds and m2 storage plus some spinning ols rust drives Temp and humidity monitoring Google Nest Protect smoke detector TP link 16amp smart plugs on all, to have a control plane to turn it all off remotely Workloads: Most are LXC Some Docker KVM virtual machines Zero trust: Some Cloudflare Tailscale Proxmox backup server to back it all up, lots of retention Monitoring: Deployed remote uptime monitoring on fly.io Read and experiment a lot Hang out on /r/homelab /r/homedatacenter and /r/selfhosted for learning, community and inspiration

unixhero 2y ago

I have space in my house, using up half a shed I have 1 gbit fiber