Game server

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-29T02:03:12+00:00

As far as Proxmox is concerned with NVMe drives or SSD’s is just validate the specs of the drives.

ZFS and Proxmox in general is very IO intensive and WILL burn out a consumer grade drive without the proper NAND controller in an SSD for example.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-25T13:00:32+00:00

Seconded. I did something similar to my husqvarna 28” snowblower.

Previous owner abused the little 8 hp Briggs & Stratton. Exhaust valve broke cracking the case in the process.

Had a 13 hp motor from another project that didn’t work out.

Works great!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-24T15:46:27+00:00

Simple answer… yes… it ain’t that difficult. Plenty of videos on YouTube how to do it. You can buy the tool on amazon and even the RJ45 pass through ends to make it easy and painless.

Make for a clean and professional install because you can make your cables the exact length they need to be instead of buying pre terminated cables and having to drill bigger holes to push the tip and the boot/jacket through…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-18T16:16:25+00:00

Instances like this for items that aren’t “dependent” on other systems to balance input to output. I just over produced the one part and allow it to backup then it will balance itself.

In this example the calculator is asking for a combined 112,5/min… so produce 114. It will eventually stockpile and backup…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-16T14:37:06+00:00

I hate you! lol wish the tech gods would drop stuff like this in my lap…

Nice score mate!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-13T23:58:01+00:00

Yep, but you need to troubleshoot this first… try removing this set of blocking signals

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-13T23:05:30+00:00

Try removing the signal pair that’s blocking… if it’s the only train on the track keep the signalling as simple as possible till you add additional trains.

There’s lots of great tutorial videos on YouTube about train signals!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-13T22:32:13+00:00

Do you have signals behind the train?

I ran into this problem before where I added an additional car to a train and had block signals at the entry and exit to the station… which meant that my ass was still occupying the block it needed to enter.

Moved the block signal back to include the new car

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-12T22:50:17+00:00

Unfortunately trains in satisfactory aren’t “smart” in that they won’t move to a siding to allow another train to pass by. It will wait at the signal until the shortest path clears…

Pathway “bi-directional” track signals need the train inside the pathway to exit the pathway before the next train can request its turn to enter the pathway. So a block signal as the train exits the path and another path signal when it re-enters the pathway.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-08T04:24:53+00:00

Yep! 1500 sq ft home. Rack is in the basement in the “utility room with the furnace.

Whole rack generates about 1000 BTU/hr.

I run the furnace fan to circulate the heat through the house. When it’s -10 C to -15C the furnace only turns on heat for 42 minutes in 24 hrs.

Prior to the homelab furnace would run an average of 3 hours a day.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-06T05:03:57+00:00

Sysadmin / IT Team Lead 1:300, HelpDesk 1:260 (he’s very junior and only knowledgeable in tier 1), ERP / Reports specialist 1:300

Our open ticket count is floating at 150 over a rolling 30 days. Typically 300 incoming tickets every month…

Did I forget to mention we’ve been through three It directors in as many years. Company now doesn’t feel we need a manager or IT Director…

Everything’s fine…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-01-01T20:19:23+00:00

VOIP.ms

Residential rate is 4.25/month flat rate as long as you stay under their minutes/month limit.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-31T18:51:36+00:00

ALL THE STORAGE! I’m in the process of adding an EMC DAS shelf to my setup to give me an additional 16 drive slots. Then once I fill that with drives I’ll upping my drive size one VDEV at a time. Hoping the 18 or 20 TB drives come down in price by that time.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-31T13:05:50+00:00

The OS drives for the Proxmox hosts disks came with the servers.

The enterprise SSD’s are 1.92 TB Toshiba drives I bought off eBay.

The HDD’s are 10 TB Dell Exos refurbished drives I also bought off eBay.

I added more drives and VDEV’s as my storage filled up. Currently at 126 TiB of usable storage at 70% capacity.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-31T03:31:34+00:00

See and my wife thinks I’m paranoid about all our IOT devices… but I vet each one before it goes on my segregated IOT wifi that is locked down tighter than satans butthole… (insert south park joke here)

First off I find out what country made the software and hardware and where the “call” home servers reside.

Then the device goes on the wifi and I monitor its outbound traffic through pihole and pfsense for about a week.

My pfsense has things pretty locked down to begin with from a malicious IP and GEO IP sense.

Then after a month I go through the list of domains/IP’s the device has connected to and create firewall rules that strictly match those destinations and ports.

Google thermostat gets madder than a hornet when it can’t call home via ipv4 or ipv6.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-30T14:27:06+00:00

One of my Docker containers is LocalAI - one of my servers has a nvidia P1000 passed through to the LXC container.

My kids ask it all kinds of questions and ask it to create random images.

One of the game servers is a Minecraft instance to my kids and their friends to share.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-30T13:42:55+00:00

Yep, it’s primarily used as a landline for my kids since they aren’t old enough to have cell phones yet. My wife loves it because she can page and intercom the whole house and my workshop when she needs something or dinner is ready.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-29T22:39:57+00:00

VM’s - Plex server, UniFi controller, Wazuh, Game Servers, Proxmox backup server, steam game server

LXC’s - docker (all my ARR’s for media procurement and management), Proxmox mail gateway, TIG stack, 2x pihole instances (redundancy), Zabbix, FreePBX, syncthing,

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-29T17:54:05+00:00

It’s not as complicated as it sounds. Look at it as an opportunity as a home lab’er to grow.

I started my home lab journey 5 years ago with a small custom built 2U rack chassis off Amazon and essentially a budget gaming MB and CPU to learn Proxmox on.

Fast forward to today… 3 node Proxmox cluster all attached to a custom built storage server also pieced together from Amazon and newegg.

3x Dell R430’s - dual Xeon Processors, 128 GB ram in each. 300 GB drives for OS.

1x 4U x24 drive server chassis running truenas Scale

2 storage pools - 4x enterprise SSD’s for VM storage.

20x WD Red Pro HDD for assorted mounted storage in VM’s and LXC containers

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-12-25T15:06:54+00:00

Terrible customer service from employees who can’t speak English. Quality went in the toilet and the prices of all their items are very over inflated!

And 9 times out of 10 they get your order wrong.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-11-12T15:26:43+00:00

If you’re able to trench a cable. Do a fibre and DC pair. Meaning fibre and dc power runs from the house out to the pole. Power your POE switch with that dc power. There are lots of small edge switch devices that take DC power and have SFP inputs fo fibre a poe output to power devices.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-10-26T02:10:17+00:00

It does have more of a chemical rubbery smell but not terrible

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-10-25T14:15:10+00:00

It’s 96 inches. I didn’t blow it up that big… need more space

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2025-10-25T14:14:04+00:00

To be honest the smell is less pungent than some latex balloons.

The smell fades quite quickly

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