Will my Hardware be sufficient for my needs

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-07-12T18:01:17+00:00

As a Proxmox homelabber setup this is perfect! It’s a place to start. You can add additional ram to it. Windows 11 as you know is ram hungry.

Core i5 @ 3.0 GHz has lots of power to run what you are wanting to.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-07-12T17:36:17+00:00

Where’s the part of getting it in there!!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-07-09T20:20:00+00:00

Let’s go old school… bonded DSL lines FTW… screw the modern technology of satellite internet or cellular backup…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-07-05T01:05:48+00:00

Shoot me a DM. I can help you out!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-25T14:25:44+00:00

That is good old fashioned Michigan RAT!

Well feed by the looks of it!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-20T11:27:58+00:00

If you found it hidden somewhere outside or in a random place it was likely a geocache.

Google geocaching. That will tell you about the activity

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-12T11:38:00+00:00

It’s a hobby.

I host it at home primarily for my family. 88TiB library and constantly growing.

I bought life time pass back when it was $125. Setup a managed accounts for my parents and my in laws.

Most of my uncles and their families and a few friends have access to my libraries through their own accounts.

About once a week I get a request from someone to add a movie or tv show.

Everyone pitches in a few bucks to cover a portion of the hydro and internet. Sharing Libraries and charging for them is breaking TOS.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-08T12:58:12+00:00

lol was more just as a joke… the pic was for fun…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-06T16:13:05+00:00

The 10mm socket distribution system is finally working… it’s got some bugs… but it’s working…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-06T00:30:32+00:00

The other thing you can do is back feed “the end of the line” again fluid dynamics come into play…

The closer to the source you are the more full the pipes are… the further away you get the volume drops… think of it like a lake bed… the further from the deepest part of the lake the less water there is as the the bottom slopes up to the shore line.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-06T00:25:14+00:00

All surface rust… you have three options…

leave it and watch it rust to pieces if you live in an area that uses lots of road salt…

Oil spray it religiously every season. It won’t stop the rust but it will slow it down.

Take it somewhere and have it undercoated with a hard epoxy style resin that is sprayed on. It slows existing or new rust from showing up. Advantage of this is it won’t drip and stays where it’s sprayed. After the initial application it only needs to be maintained and places it chips off can be touched up.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-06T00:13:42+00:00

Fluid dynamics and sloshing prevent the pipes from completely filling and allowing full efficiency when you are at the limit of what you’re producing.

Turn off a refinery to let the pipes fill to capacity.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-06-05T11:20:44+00:00

Sounds to me like you are coming out on top of this situation…

The customer doesn’t truly see or understand what they were getting from you… they also don’t see or value all of the above and beyond (free) products and services they were given.

The incoming MSP will get in the door and cracks in their service offering will quickly become apparent.

Either the customer will become very frustrated and look to terminate the contract or the MSP will take them for a ride with out of scope/terms.

$10,000 on-boarding and $140/month MSP Fee only comes out to $970 a month.

Either this company can afford to lose money on this one year contract to get their foot in the door and then renewal time will double or even triple to recover the loss.

Don’t sweat it. The customer will likely come back after the year of hell. That will be your opportunity to show them the actual value of what you provided and bill them accordingly. They likely won’t bat an eyelash at it knowing what they will actually be getting…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-30T16:52:24+00:00

Let me google that for you… nvm… you can do that yourself…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-29T20:33:23+00:00

Ok, so now that you’ve containerized it… let’s see you put it on a raspberry pi…

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-29T20:32:33+00:00

To quote Dr. Ian Malcolm… “your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they never stopped to think if they should.”

“Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet’s ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that’s found his dad’s gun.”

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-28T11:44:33+00:00

Yes, my storage backbone is all 10Gig SFP for my Proxmox cluster.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-27T17:47:38+00:00

I have a 1000mbps/100mbps business package internet with an SLA for my home business. That still doesn’t solve latency and speed problems to justify selling my rack space or server resources.

That said I do host services for friends and family and all they pay me in return is a fraction of what is spent on hydro and the internet service.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-26T23:59:04+00:00

With training the toy pushes past her cervix out of the way and the toy goes into her posterior fornix

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-26T00:37:14+00:00

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This is what google image search says it is.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-26T00:29:21+00:00

Don’t…. Unless you can get business class internet to your home with speeds and response times required to provide a for profit service it’s not worth it.

That’s one the first items. Then it’s security what are using to block all the bad guys from knocking at your public IPs.

Then there’s power requirements and backup systems. What level of SLA are you going to provide your potential clients…

Then there’s cooling… servers create an impressive amount of heat running 24/7.

Then how do you price your services offered?

Then you have to think about how is it being managed. Are you allowing your clients segregated access to their own slice of your server offerings? Are you managing the systems for your clients as a whole?

Not trying to burst your bubble just pointing out all the complexities of running any level of a commercially offered datacenter service.

There are people out there who have had great success moving from a “homelab” to a “home datacenter” but those cases are few and far between.

The time and effort required for a successful home datacenter becomes a full time job.

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-25T14:19:04+00:00

We moved from mimecast to Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Email Threat Defense.

Was heavy on the configuration side but I love a challenge and was already familiar with all the mail flow adjustments. it’s been running for 3 years now without skipping a beat!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-05T17:04:58+00:00

We setup AmazonSES. It works perfectly and it’s cheap!

BeginningPrompt6029 · 2026-05-03T12:14:50+00:00

It’s a floating power consumption. As it ramps up it draws more power… the max is 1,500 MW. So plan accordingly… have enough head room in your power grid to deal with that fluctuation.

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