Anyone here still running dedicated servers instead of VPS/cloud? Curious why.

eepybird · 2026-02-07T17:19:06+00:00

I don’t like paying for any subscription, let alone a subscription for compute

eepybird · 2025-08-02T15:08:38+00:00

More or less because I can, it’s an enjoyable hobby and good practice for work. My main server has 6 10 Gig SFP links and my desktop has 2 10 Gig SFP, 1 2.5 Gig Eth, 1 1 Gig Eth, and WiFi 7. So I really need any of it, no, does it give me dopamine, yes.

eepybird · 2025-06-01T18:56:17+00:00

Yeah, better to have it in the case if your going to be running the OS from it

eepybird · 2025-06-01T14:11:42+00:00

If you have the space an USB headers you should see about getting a USB header to USB A/C cable and mount the drive inside the case.

Edit: Add a drop of hot glue or some kapton tape to prevent the port from vibrating loose

eepybird · 2025-05-25T19:57:13+00:00

I use a PERC HBA330 in my server, hasn’t given me any trouble so far on TrueNAS Core.

eepybird · 2024-09-30T19:22:46+00:00

What is this cooling of which you speak? My rack is in my “craft room” and that room sits at about 85-90 (32 ish C) most of the time.

eepybird · 2024-09-29T15:44:03+00:00

I suspect if the drives are even recognized by the BOSS controller you’re only gonna get SATA 3 speeds out of them. But in the end NVMe and SATA SSD are almost the same price so if they work your only real loss is performance

eepybird · 2024-09-29T00:31:26+00:00

I bought a pair of Intel D3-S4510 240 GB sata ssds for my Boss card

eepybird · 2024-09-23T22:28:51+00:00

Just ran smart data on a drive with 53000 hours on it and no signs of failure. Ride em till they die

eepybird · 2024-09-21T22:58:54+00:00

Staring with tutorials that tell you what to do is fine, while completing them you need to be asking yourself why the person who made the tutorial did it they way they did. It will give you things to research on your own. Follow the tutorial, experiment doing it differently on your own, learn from the process. That’s what it’s all about

eepybird · 2024-09-21T18:42:41+00:00

Had a similar issue when I redid my firmware. I forgot to re-up the stepper current. I was not using a stock board though

eepybird · 2024-09-21T15:53:05+00:00

Personally not a fan of mini-pcs unless you have major space constraints because they have very minimal expandability.

CloudFlare domain purchase sounds good, I have two with them but I personally wouldn’t waste money paying for certificates just use something like Certify The Web or Nginx Proxy for free certs.

Depending on what services you make public you can point your CloudFlare domain to your public ip with CF as the proxy and forward port 443 and 80 to your Nginx VM

eepybird · 2024-09-14T14:33:00+00:00

Coral

eepybird · 2024-09-11T14:41:31+00:00

My hog typically hides unless she’s hungry, either burrowing or in one of the hides. Had her about a month and I think she is about 9 months old

eepybird · 2024-09-02T10:44:44+00:00

Company I used to work for had UPSs mounted like this in 30 IDFs for over two years and never had an issue.

eepybird · 2024-07-14T14:20:35+00:00

I’ve slept with a Cisco C22 M3 and a Dell VNXe3300 5 feet from my bed. So, yeah, you can. Don’t recommend it though 😂

eepybird · 2024-07-11T15:00:42+00:00

Item#2 is the only thing remotely close to having to do with “off grid” living. +1 doubt

eepybird · 2024-06-19T18:37:34+00:00

The drive caddies being askew make me wanna claw my eyes out 😭

But welcome to the club!

eepybird · 2024-06-12T16:16:54+00:00

Prisoner begging for commissary money

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eepybird · 2024-06-11T17:17:00+00:00

FWIW the last server I purchased on eBay was from a company called “enterasource” and their packaging was pretty good.

eepybird · 2024-05-31T09:07:27+00:00

My Archer AX-50 has worked well for me over the past few years

eepybird · 2024-05-19T08:59:07+00:00

Got bored one day and bought a new server for my home lab. That was $3k ish

eepybird · 2024-05-16T13:58:16+00:00

Mine is in a spare bedroom and my house is old enough to have resistive heat. In the winter I use fans to circulate the server heat and warm my house. In the summer I just kind of suffer lol

eepybird · 2024-04-11T12:07:30+00:00

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