Do you have a spinning fish display in front of your homelab server, right? We all know the spinning fish improves performance and security, it is a indispensable part of homelabbing
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Buy a UPS and setup a NUT server on the spare raspberry pi you have lying around.
heck i really wish we could all throw a party together. part swap, stories swap. show off cool shit for everyone to copy.
help each other fill in the missing pieces
y'all seem like cool peeps meme-ing about shit nobody else gets!
time to test the backups!
time to test the backups!
Always a white knuckle event for me
You just described a convention.
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You should use Arch, then you can update every 15 minutes 🤭
Barring any hardware issues or external factors, will it run for 10000 years? Any logs not properly rotated? And other outputs accumulating and eventually filling up a filesystem?
Nothing to install? Not with that attitude!
Start a 10" rack.
If logging is down and there's no one around to log it, is it really down?
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Me to my lab.
No upstream bugs to fix?
I test in my Homeproduction
Yeah, my home server was being a little too stable and I wasn't really learning anything. So I switched from fedora to proxmox, now I've got a nixos vm I'm going to try to get all my services running in.
Off topic, warning: this comment section is making me want to learn things
It's been 2 days off reddit and my brain has opinions other than "aaaargh" or "meh".
Proceed with caution
OP, totally understand, but this is a level of success with your homelab. Nothing needs fiddling with. Now, there is a whole Awesome Self Hosted list you could deploy on a non-production server and run that through the paces.
Yes that does seem to describe modern computing, indeed, consumer electronics in general.
It's no longer about solving actual problems, it IS the problem.
How is the kubernetes (k3s/rke2) migration coming along?
Living the good life
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CA | (SSL) Certificate Authority |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| PSU | Power Supply Unit |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
14 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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I had a automatic reboot of all VMs and the hypervisor because of a kernel update at night. Nextcloud decided to start in maintenance mode and Jellyfin refused to start because the cache folder didn't have enough space left. Authentik also complained about outdated provider configuration...
Need to investigate the Nextcloud and Authentic issue during weekend 🤗
I wish it was stable
I had a drive die yesterday
That's not a homelab, that's a home server.