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Is this using a 24v AC setup or is it DC? I feel beyond the logic of what you’re trying to do, this could be important.

I think your power supply idea is great.

I probably have 50 different power supplies from old devices. I keep them in a box, each one is labelled with output voltage and current. Use them for projects all the time.

Nice!

Definitely need to swap over to some other power source, as 9v battery will cost more than the unit!

Well you said cloud - cloud to most of us here doesn’t mean on your systems, but a “cloud” of systems - i.e. not controlled by you.

As you said, RAID gives you a single unified storage pool from independent drives.

It also gives you some fail over if using RAID 6 with dual drive redundancy and hot fail over (which any modern RAID system has).

You can then divvy up the storage however you want. Single big drive with folders and file-system permissions, or split the pool into multiple logical drives, etc.

The world is your oyster.

No backup with PiHole?

PiHole can run redundant if you want. Does Technitium do this differently? Or more easily?

Good lord, 114!

And here I thought I was doing something at 10-20 TB.

You go!

OP posted his numbers and you think you know better.

Bet you’re fun at parties.

My primary purpose for separating services is stability.

My file server is just for file services - so if my media server needs a reboot it doesn’t affect anything else, like my media conversion server, etc.

Preventing lateral movement is really a secondary benefit. If someone gets in, my ability to prevent lateral movement as a non-enterprise is pretty limited.

And that’s why these products are a non-started in the enterprise world.

Data management and security is an entire organization in these places.

This is it.

It’s about risk management. If you don’t have a vendor to provide measured performance criteria, you have no idea how it will perform.

Businesses are data-centric. Without that data, a product effectively doesn’t exist.

You forget the legal angle. That’s really what drives this stuff (and marketing).

Wow, off grid and you pull that much.

Impressive.

Avoid processed foods, regardless of what’s in it.

Since the 80’s and the low-fat movement, the fat was replaced by gobs of sugar. Which was later replaced by corn syrup.

Doesn’t really matter which one you’re eating, the high glycemic index is the killer with both. And lots of simple carbs in your diet is (as the medical community is finally starting to acknowledge) the real driver with today’s cardiovascular unhealth. It’s what damages arteries, cholesterol shows up to repair that damage.

Which is all the reason in the world to avoid processed foods. They will always have a crap macronutrient composition, and sugar is always way too high.

I’ve taken to taping up most of the vents on my boxes, then putting air conditioner filter media in front of the vents I leave open.

This controls the flow to only come through those vents, so they get filtered.

I clean the filters once a month - it’s nice that you can see them to know they need cleaning.

I do change the fans to more powerful ones, usually compressor style (what people call squirrel cage) because they handle airflow restriction better. The trick is how to orient and duct them.

Wow, yea, that’s bad, haha

Novell??

Holy cow that’s something I haven’t heard in forever.

Because you’re treating every country as one thing.

As a westerner, even I find that demeaning and offensive.

Every country is its own thing. So even your question is crap, because you’re asking about a continent when it’s a country-level question.

Even asking this of the EU would be meaningless, and at least they have a more common plan about things than an entire continent that doesn’t have a single government (not that the EU is a single government, but it enables engagement and joint planning).

Plus, the info you want is easily found on Wikipedia or a simple search.

I get mine from a link on diskprices.com

Usually lead to ebay or Amazon - I’m not particular.

They’re almost always used business drives. Oldest one is now 4 years running.

Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.

So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.

Most drives I’ve owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won’t run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it’s more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.

It’s every single one I’ve ever encountered. I suppose you could say I’ve just encountered cheap ones - that could be true.

But I’ve never seen a single one (since the 90’s) that didn’t start failing in short order.

Some just sucked from the word go. Have one in my car that had hardly been used because there are separate controls on the steering wheel. Steering wheel ones are fine, the one on the head unit, that’s rarely used, is failing.

DietPi is such a game changer.

Currently running it in a VM just for PiHole, and the ease of installing anything is nice.

When people say America they are 99% of the time referring to the US - otherwise it’s made clear in the conversation that they are talking about “the Americas” or it’s already been made clear it’s about companies or people in the Americas.

Don’t be disingenuous - saying “Africa” has no comparison to talking about the US, and bands? Wtf do bands have to do with anything? And again, I’m sure a band from Uganda, playing traditional Ugandan music would bristle at being generically labelled “African”.

Yea, small business routers (think old Cisco boxes) use a 5A laptop-style power supply. I suspect this is what OP’s using, as I’ve never seen a consumer model with such power specs. Consumer stuff is built around the cheapest hardware they can get away with.

Thing is, I don’t doubt the Cisco box (or similar business units) may need that much juice at times. Put your hand over one that’s not connected but powered on and they get hot.

Stuff like that they really don’t care about power consumption during design, just capability.

10 years?

My friend, many of us have been warning about SaaS since long before the public knew it as Cloud.

So you’re saying that the current Minecraft servers are all running on desktop hardware and not on standard U-chassis servers in racks in data centers?

If anything I’d expect them. To run virtualized on standard rack servers.

Something here doesn’t add up. I don’t buy that enterprise server hardware that can out-perform desktop hardware by orders of magnitude can’t do what you need - especially since that’s surely how the existing servers run.

If this single-threading performance is really en issue, run some kind of virtualization on a rack server, build a VM with the exact hardware config you need, and the host hardware will make it happen (which I’d bet is exactly how current servers are run, because then they can be moved/Load balanced dynamically without missing a beat).

I currently have both single-core, single-cpu VM’s and multi-core, multi-cpu VM’s running on the same host for test purposes. The VM has no idea it’s virtual hardware is actually run on a different multi-cpu/core host.

Check out xcp-ng - it’s probably the best (arguable) open source virtualization platform today. VMware server can definitely do this, if you have a license.

That only works from PC to PC (it was my first thought too).

I mean it’s reddit. Nuff said.

Left that cesspool years ago

“If everyone were on the same page”

Yea, like that could ever happen. This is a denial of fundamental human nature.

Even worse is your hubris in assuming the priorities you believe are “right” everyone else should agree with you.