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When does it stop being homelab and become homeserver? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by justinrlloyd@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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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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[–] cruzaderNO@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It stops being homelab when the focus goes from labbing to production, when it becomes a homeprod enviroment instead.

[–] VexingRaven@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

90% of the posts here are homeprod.

[–] Patient-Tech@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing more permanent than a temporary fix as well?

[–] djbon2112@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My take too.

A lab is a testing space, a playground, something that can be brought up and down and broken and fixed at will. It will be destroyed and rebuilt frequently.

As soon as it stops being possible to do that without someone (even if just yourself) getting annoyed that a service or functionality isn't working, then you've graduated to homeproduction/homeserver/homedatacentre (depending on its size!).

[–] canadajones68@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's not truly prod unless you're messing with it, though.