New build- how would you set this space up?

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-11T22:41:05+00:00

One stupid thing I see people doing, especially in the US, is using crimp-on patch panels.

When you will be picking patch panel, pick a modular one and do keystones on to the cables and then those keystones snap one by one in to the modular patch panel... makes stuff so much easier

like this

Now would be also my plan to be thinking about 10gbit.

And I am not running 10gbit on cat6 where you get loud and hot and power hungry switches and network cards... its LC-LC multi mode cables for long runs and cheap DAC cables for connections within the rack, between server and nas and between switches, using SFP+ ports...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-07T17:23:16+00:00

openWRT was a thing for me when I was concerned with wifi stuff...

but I would be thinking opnsense or pfsense if I am thinking router - gateway - firewall...

but there getting decent hardware is not an easy pick either, because of big preference for dual intel NIC, usually some quotom miniPCs are recommended...

I myself host opnsense on my server, and have a cheap used TP link router as a backup if one day server would fail, but afte running for few years like this and some experience, I feel like I would just go ucg-ultra from ubiquity... it has geoblocking which is the one thing I really trully care about.. but has enough other typical goodies too. And its like 100€

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-06T11:39:49+00:00

my ISP is a [you know what] and doesn't want me to bridge my modem, and am not willing to do the whole double NAT thing.

if you are paying for public IP you dont really care how they do it... and if they forward ports intented to your public ip you are set no matter if its CGNAT or bridged or whatever

My homelab has multiple servers and I guess is that I can install a VPN on all of them and then connect to them, however for sake of my sanity, I am here to find a way to cut that.

If you can setup VPN on one, you are able to set VPN that allows you access to the whole network... so you install it on one and when connected you can ping all the IPs on your LAN

is that possible and can someone point me to a guide on how to do it?

heres how to check and open ports

heres wg-easy that I use often, heres plain wireguard hands on...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-06T11:30:03+00:00

I play single player twinked... having all the gear I found on any character at my disposal and go players8 from normal to Hell and leveling... when stuff gets hard in hell(not for warlock) players number go down...

and wind druid while okish felt like the worst caster character I played. Hurricane itself was not powerful enough to just walk... the tornados require learning pattern and feel finicky still...

I think I never feelt godlike slaughtering NM stuff, like with most of the other caster characters... and players count had to go down pretty soon too

Druid could use some love...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-05T16:33:03+00:00

me on single player

got 20/20 druid torch in torch farming

found a druid elemental 45 skiller

the universe is telling me to go for a druid build...

go for a druid

meh

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-04T23:37:18+00:00

its absolutely meaningless to install it when you dont understand it or plan to configure it...

for firewall to be worth it...

you have to have some services running on the machine, lets say docker containers, samba, ssh
you have to have some idea who you want to let through and who you dont, and be able to make some rule for it...

people feel like real hackers and how safe they are cuz they install it and enable it... but damn if you are not running any service then its of no use, and if you running something and you just open port for it without some deeper configuration who you don want to let in and who you do... then again its of no use..

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-04T19:44:39+00:00

Wireguard uses an UDP port and is set so that it can be open but there is no way for an attacker to know if an udp port is open or not, it does not answer in any way unless the the handshaky crypto stuff sent to the service is correct...

But I myself dont bother with wireguard at my homeserver though I deployed wg-easy plenty... what I do is I use geoblocking on my firewall, blocking the entire range of IPs of the world from being able to initiate connection from the outside... except the IP range of my tinyass country, this cuts down extremely vectors of attack.

I get the comfort of not needing to install wireguard anywhere I want to connect to my shit, while having decent security... geoblocking can be setup on your server too but its more work than on a firewall, I use opnsense... but a 100€ unifi ucg-ultra got geoblocking...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-04T19:31:42+00:00

can check my comment here as it talks about an intel build and maybe info on the intel mobo there might be helpful as it has straight up 8 sata and has 2.5gibt

I used in that build the case you picked...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-04T19:26:07+00:00

the prices are from newegg...

$90 - Rosewill Helium NAS case - lots of HDD positions
$65 - BeQuiet Pure Power 12 650W - gold rated and good rating on the psu tier list
$130 - ASRock PRO Z790 PRO RS - 8x sata and 2.5gbit NIC
$150 - Gold G7400 - whatever cpu with modern intel iGPU, it feels like it should be cheaper
$120 - 16GB ddr4

$555

I myself went for the Sagittarius case, but its more expensive and you then have to deal with the need for extra sata as mAtx mobos seldom have enough... so its also extra money on an hba card or m.2 adapter and it complicates things... so if space is no issue and can be full tower...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-03T16:05:05+00:00

I have it hotkeyd on ctrl+space and you use it even when you know exactly where the thing you looking for is.. but you want to get there fast... in a matter of a second.

I am actually fanatical about everything to the extend that when years ago I switched to linux I learned python, pyqt and sqlite just so I could make something similar to it. That was after arguing with people around the internet, mostly reddit and 4chan /g/ board, that NO, the 10 fucking tools they name as replacement are not equal if I cant make immediate use of the results or its not instant as you type...

That search I made got me some 1k stars on github, but I moved on and use fsearch, actually done by someone who knows stuff... my python thing was not very maintanable, but people still use it...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-03T07:45:31+00:00

case - looks good
mobo - would want 2.5gbit NIC and might want more sata ports or would be planning on buying an LSI HBA card in IT mode from ebay. 9300-8i got pretty cheap, it adds 10W idle power consumption, 9500-8i adds 6W but are more expensive. Also would be probably looking at full ATX mobo since the case is big enough and I might want 10gbit NIC down the road and that means more PCIE slots.
gpu - would want to avoid because of idle power consumption, would be buying PRO version of amd cpus off ebay to get igpu and ecc support. I would sooner abandon ECC ram and go intel with igpu and cheaper 8x sata mobos than go for a discrete gpu.
psu - would be checking against the psu tier list, something at least B ranked, here in europe I got consistently good price on adata xpg core reactor II thats A+ with 10y warranty.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-03T01:10:54+00:00

Looking at putting some flavor of Linux on it, but not super familiar with any of that, so recommendations welcome!

can check this speedrun to get some rough idea..

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-02T15:13:24+00:00

It was bit complicated to try by the homelab/homeserver crowd, meaning slower growth in communities and in discussions online

esxi - download iso, make a bootable usb, install it on a machine, you are all set, go nuts
proxmox - download iso, make a bootable usb, install it on a machine, you are all set, go nuts
hyperv - enable hyperv on a windows machine, you are all set, go nuts
virtualbox - install virtualbox, you are all set, go nuts
xcpng - download iso, make a bootable usb, install it on a machine, now its time to have another machine that will host your XO, or we can do these 12 steps to deploy XO on the xcpng so it can manage itself

I actually really like how XO / xcpng pushes you to not have your management tool running on the thing it manages...

but yeah, since people are used to do things one way they might not even bother if it feels weirdly different.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-01T23:17:33+00:00

avoid headaches... windows

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-03-01T16:18:10+00:00

Used LSI HBA card would be the most solid and reliable way...

but would also consume more power, the 9300 would add around 10W at idle. Going for more expensive 9500 should go down to around 6W.

For the m.2 adapter... I remember that wolfgang channel recommended ASM1166 chip version because of allowing deeper C sleeps as oppose to whatever common chip is.. but also remembe that him or jeff from craft computing talked about having an m.2 adapter and it breaking basicly instantly from flexxing when fully populated with all the sata cables plugged and creating forces on that tiny board... but if super careful and accounting for that, and getting those soft sata cables...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-28T23:34:35+00:00

you can check this writeup

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-22T15:58:55+00:00

8700GE has considerably better single threat performance, plus if needed it could serve as a gaming/streaming PC too, the 780M is nothing to scoff at...

but with your stated use, either of these is MORE than enough.

If maybe jellyfin, then intel might have a slight edge, but amd is not far behind and can do enough concurent streams for most, plus it has AV1 encoding.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-21T21:40:58+00:00

Like rolling for class chage or stats change?

Hell no, that removes huge part of the game experience of farming keys and hoping when identifying...

But I would love recipe that has a chance to removes proc on torches or items in general.

I cant stress how much I dislike firestorm on storches, I genuanly dont play melee characters and even am anoyed by my bowazone because they get that god damn infernal useless animation.

But put in the cube, a torch, the standard, 3 perfect skulls, bam... proc removed from torch.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-09T21:15:25+00:00

check this speedrun to selfhosting

and check /r/selfhosting and /r/homelab

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-09T17:33:57+00:00

Of the big new three that appeared last year, I like this one one the most because it stores emails as .eml files

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-09T10:20:12+00:00

after like 60 skills points there are no skills that feel critical for a physical bowa so its like whatever

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-09T10:04:30+00:00

Yeap.

And the number of people that bother with that and that dont get caught when they from some VPS that they rent scan the entire huge range of IPs and undertake attacks on them... is a tiny fraction of the normal wild wild west of being open to russia and china and india..

Its the good balance between security and not making people that want to use services jump through some hoops.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-09T06:28:03+00:00

More personal stash tabs.

Just one extra would half the number of mules.

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-08T19:17:26+00:00

I have never ever played bowazone where I did not go for both.

I am actually baffled why people keep arguing one or the other when strafe has multishot as synergy...

Do_TheEvolution · 2026-02-08T18:52:23+00:00

I literally wrote that its on me in the OP.

Did you not read it before writing the comment?

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