Absolutely nothing has been as helpful in understanding how the internet works, as setting up and actually using BGP. An asn and a /40 for ipv6 can be had for almost nothing as a one time fee if you go through a LIR. Ipv4 is very expensive to buy but renting a /24 can be had for around $100 a month. And then you’re ready to start peering over tunnels or you can get VPSes that support it or ask your ISP (usually only on higher end business connections).
If stability is what you’re after (both in terms of versioning and in the sense of as few unscheduled reboots as possible), then neither is a good option. Both update quite often and go with an “introduce feature now, worry about stability later” and end up having to constantly patch a bunch of stuff.
If you’re comfortable with a CLI, then I’d recommend Vyos and then going with the stable branch. It’s had 3 service patches since 1.3.0 released in 2021. The last being in june and before that, you have to go to september last year. Ofc, downside is that you’ll miss out on a lot of features. Like I don’t think stable has wireguard support yet, and not certain it will be ready for when 1.4 goes stable either (it’s currently in 1.4 rolling). You could implement some of it yourself because it’s built on Debian, but anything you do like that is tied to your current image. So if you upgrade, you have to do it again so I don’t recommend it.
Point is, if you need features, don’t, but if it’s the most stable you’re after, I can highly recommend at least having a look. Though I always recommend getting a proper router above any router os on amd64. You’ll get more out of it, cheaper, with less power consumption and lower latency.
As in average? 1491W 30 day average according to the power meter. Fully loading everything is around 5kW iirc though that doesn’t really happen. Highest in last 30 days is 3774W peak and I think that’s when I accidentally shut down the UPS so everything was booting at the same time after. I don’t think I ever go over 3kW in normal circumstances.
Using 5 storage servers, 2 of which are storinators and 3 supermicros. And then two compute nodes which are Proliant DL380, g10 and a g11 that I just bought last week. Plus ofc some network gear which isn’t really anything too fancy, it’s just two routers, which while they do do PoE, I don’t use it so they’re not really high power or anything.
I don’t do backups of a lot. The important stuff that has like, an actual backup, has 2 copies off site. One at my work, one at my wife’s work. Just a regular LTO tape. The vast majority of what I store, is not something I consider important enough to backup as it’s stuff like, dvds and blurays I’ve ripped and still have and thus could get out of storage and rip again should that need arise. I do however donoff site replication. 3 replica ceph pool where one copy has to be off site. There’s again one node at my work and one at my wife’s work, plus ofc the local cluster which for drive constraints in the work nodes, always has two of the replicas. Might add a second node at my work but while we both get to place the servers there, I still pay for power, and wife for power and connection. With power prices these days, it gets kind of expensive.
Yea never complain about the people that won’t buy cheap. It just makes it cheaper with less demand :)
Don’t need to manually create hard links, script or otherwise if you just use deduplication on the storage layer instead.
You could have tried on an older android device first. But for 8 gigs, I wouldn’t even have bothered. I’d just throw them in a bucket and be done with it.