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Answering your Homelab Questions! (www.youtube.com)
submitted 17 hours ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32242829

Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:47 Buying cheap and power hungry homelab gear 04:53 How to configure C-States? 07:59 Does Powertop hurt your performance? 08:43 How to find out what prevents HDD spindown? 10:05 Is an all-SSD NAS worth it? 12:21 ARM-powered homelab? 13:51 Exposing your homelab services? 16:40 TrueNAS/Unraid vs. a regular Linux distro? 17:59 My backup strategy 19:32 Getting friends and family into backups 20:05 Cheap VPS for hosting Headscale 20:48 To UPS or not to UPS? 21:39 My storage setup

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 40 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

This is a me thing and not related to this video specifically, but I absolutely hate that we've settled on "homelab" as a term for "I have software in some computer I expose to my home network".

It makes sense if you are also a system administrator of an online service and you're testing stuff before you deploy it, but a home server isn't a "lab" for anything, it's the final server you're using and don't plan to do anything else with. Your kitchen isn't a "test kitchen" just because you're serving food to your family.

Sorry, pet peeve over. The video is actually ok.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Well, I'm not one to get all uppity about nomenclature. Home lab, home server, self host, what ever. I call the room all my toys are in, 'The Lab'. It has musical instruments, keyboard controllers, servers, computers, electronics, et al. So 'The Lab' seemed to fit.

He's so stacked that he knows, when he goes back to his mobile home, that's when its Back to the lab again yo

[–] Konraddo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I feel like I'm doing something illegal by calling my home a lab. Might be thinking too much ;) Jokes aside, I'm not really testing or inventing anything so I genuinely don't understand where the lab part comes from.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

It’s ok because it doesn’t hurt anyone.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Tbh I didn't think of my stuff as a home lab, though I guess it is. I just call them my home servers. Sounds cooler and is a better phrase for describing to non-techies imo.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 8 points 8 hours ago

Mine is an home-lab beause I'm not sure the fuck I'm doing most of the time so it's trial and error therefore a lab as in explosions may happen in there.

[–] 4k93n2@lemmy.zip 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

yea never liked the term much either.

while we're venting, self-hosting isnt a great term either. it should just be 'hosting' and the 'self' part should be self explanatory because it would be madness to have someone else host it for you!

remote-hosting still has some uses in some cases of course :)

[–] HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

In the context of this community and the movement in general, ‘self-hosting’ is designed to contrast against the larger trend of “let me just trust one of the big cloud companies with all my stuff”. We’ve seen how that can go very, very wrong. So, the idea of maintaining control of your data and the methods by which it is accessed is the heart of ‘self-hosting’. It’s not meant to restrict one to only computers stored in one’s home.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeeeeah, I have less of a problem for that, because... well yeah, people host stuff for you all the time, right? Any time you're a client the host is someone else. Self-hosting makes some sense for services where you're both the host and the client.

Technically you're not self hosting anything for your family in that case, you're just... hosting it, but I can live with it.

I do think this would all go down easier if we had a nice marketable name for it. I don't know, power-internetting, or "the information superdriveway". This was all easier in the 90s, I guess is what I'm accidentally saying.

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

I powered up your comment. Later skater

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago

Great video. Made me reconsider using mergerfs and snapraid instead of zfs. invidious link.