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?
Home Lab is a lab environment to test out stuff and, rebuild things to test out something else.
Homeserver would be something more longlived.
Home Datacenter when you have more compute and storage in your basement than your whole town combined.
HOLY FUCK! Dude so many things I’ve never though of.
When you have weekly change control meetings
I’m curious about what program that is and if its free
It stops becoming a “homelab” when it’s impacting your family.
My entire “homelab” is contained in one box- if something fails on it, no one cares- it won’t impact anyone. My home network consists of a simple mesh network.
This is something I don’t think a lot of people consider. If you’re the one that set this up, and you expire tomorrow, do you really want the burden of figuring this out on your spouse/partner/kids???
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.”
When it starts to carry any level of production workload from an outside network :)
homelab = everything is in prod
homeserver = you have a dev/prod environment
This has evolved to a HomeCloud setup.
home datacenter would be the term
When you can format it, to try something new.
If you can’t?.. It became production
You are asking the wrong question… when does server become lab (multiple servers).
One man’s way too much shit is another man’s enjoyable hobby.
This isn’t a hobby, it’s a horde /s
Adding ip address is a good idea, even if it is in foot note fashion.
Home datacenter
It’s always been a home server.