I diagrammed out my home lab/home server setup, mostly to keep a complete overview of how everything connects. I didn’t want to get bogged down in aesthetics around colour scheme, or layout – as you can no doubt tell. After a while diagramming it started to feel like a meme where I was trying to convey some crazy conspiracy theory on a wall of pinned paperwork and connecting threads. I think I am done documenting everything. But now I am wondering how obsessive I should be about detailing every little thing and VLANs and IP assignments. I don’t really care if it looks like a dog’s dinner, I really just care about “okay, where does this wire go to?” Is that the right approach?
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That’s mostly semantics, for me at least.
I have only one NAS, and one Proxmox host that is up 24/7, so they are in production.
I regularly tinker with those two as well, it’s all part of my lab.
This is how it works for me. I am using the homelab to learn new things. Part of that learning process is getting things into production and maintaining them. Because managing a production environment is one of the things I want to learn.
The Lorem ipsum is the best part.
Also most people don’t add monitors to their network diagrams. That’s just a flex.
That’s just a flex
The whole diagram seems to be a flex. There’s a $5000.00 sewing machine chucked in there lol.
“It’s connected to the network. It’s part of the lab.”
“How do you stop your wife from complaining about your homelab? I dunno, I just bought her a sewing machine and she went very quiet.”
/u/justinrlloyd do you have photos of your chore board. Definitely at the point in my life that when I saw that I got really excited.
Bro, you are running a small/medium size office at this point. Not a home lab. This MF has a rack in 2 different data centers. What are you using those racks for? Off side backups? Redundancy?
Stops being a homelab when you have SLA’s
You, diagram? I just keep throwing crap into the mix and trying to remember which vlan and ip scheme its supposed to use and which device has access. Order is for work, Chaos is for personal enjoyment.
If you can turn it off and still do things, it’s a homelab. If you run services on it that are vital to your home, then it’s a home server.
When your wife calls you if something isn’t working. If there’s a family facing service it’s no longer a home lab, its home prod.
Can you do rm -rf / on everything in your “lab”? Yes: still a lab. No: not a lab.
Tell me you take adderall without telling me you take adderall. OP was locked in on this one boys.
A homeserver is just a component(s) of your homelab…
God damn dude. You are running a medium size office at this point. Not a home lab. Also why did you decide to go with 2 different data center and what’s the purpose of the data center in taxes(I can’t see the text very well from mobile). Also what is your current IP schema for home and DC.
Ohio runs my personal server in a data center. Handles email, personal websites such as justin-lloyd.com (down and to the right if you’re on desktop), offsite-backup. Texas data center is a web application server hosting a “funny pictures” website I am building in my spare time. MS SQL => Kestrel => NGINX = ATS => Android/iOS/Web/Terminal clients.
The meaning of “homelab” has changed over the years. Originally it was literally just having the hardware you’d find in the lab at home. e.g. you were taking classes for a CCNA and instead of going to the school’s lab for hands-on with the hardware you’d just replicate the setup at ‘home’. Nothing in the setup would be relied on beyond the specific thing you’re testing in the moment. If you’re going to stick to the original intent of the name, anything beyond “lab” use wouldn’t be “homelab”.
Now it skews more to meaning anything you’re using to learn the technology even if you’re using it as the equivalent of production and rely on it being up as a part of your daily life.
are you running 9" displays in place of physical photos in frames? Curious how this is setup. Is there a write-up somewhere?
edit: same for “the wall” with the 6x 55" screens.
Holy shit… thats quite a “home” enterprise