Thank you! That makes much more sense.

ELI5…?

I tried fusion360 last week and it was broken; some big update they released broke it and now I just gagged to wait for it to get fixed, I guess. Will try it again in a month or so asked are if it’s fixed… but I’ve always had awful luck getting wine working. Same w/ photoshop

Honestly, kinda glad that my win10 PC “doesn’t have the specs” to run win11. Stupid, because I’m running an 18-core Xeon w/ 128 gigs of ram and a 2070 super, but of course the stupid TPM chip. But oh well, guess I won’t be able to get ads on my own product.

The bummer is I’ll likely need to install it on something because I occasionally need to go back to windows to use certain programs… maybe someday wine will work well enough to actually use reliably…

Shitty k8s cluster/space heater?

Quick note - HGST enterprise drives are great but those fuckers are LOUD. I’ve had one in my PC for a number of years and it’s done great, pretty quick too - but I can hear it across the room.

I’ll make sure to give the firewall a shot, then - I couldn’t explain it for the life of me but for whatever reason it’s always just gone straight over my head. Not like it’s too complex or anything… just a lack of willingness to learn! But that is changing :)

And it’s a Supermicro blade - I’ve already set up IPMI LOM! One of my favorite tools. I do a decent amount of sysadmin stuff at work, and we actually use somewhat similar servers - so luckily, I know what I’m doing there. But at work, IT does all of the firewall setup and everything for us, because we’re on one huge VPN - so I don’t ever have to worry about (or learn) security. Which explains some of why I don’t know it yet.

Hmm, well that’s good to hear, about the whole Tailscale thing. I was a bit confused on how that’s actually interacting with the internet. I suppose that even though I can access the stuff from anywhere, I do need the account to actually do so.

To your point about SSH keys - could you elaborate a bit more? I am familiar with SSH in that it exists, but past that, the whole key thing is a bit of a black box (which is part of this whole thing… to learn more about it!)

3D printing is the way to go, for sure. But if you’ve got the normal SFF optiplexes, I’ve got no idea how those will fit into a 1U form factor without a complete cooling system overhaul.

Lemmy instance would be cool - my biggest concern there is the whole issue Lemmy had w/ CP a few months ago where one person posts it & of course, due to how the fediverse works, that gets downloaded onto everyone’s servers. Seems like it could be a problem.

Otherwise - I do have quite a load of experience on the hardware-side of things, and do love me a good setup. It was more of “I know I’ll do things with it, I just don’t know exactly what just yet”, and after years of lusting after something like this, I’ve finally got the capital to pull it off. Plus a handful of really good deals I got, of course.

I got the server crazy cheap & couldn’t pass up the offer. Figured I’d throw some needlessly powerful CPUs in it because why not, lol. Power isn’t actually nearly as bad as I said… looks like it’d cost ~$40/month to run. Which is way more reasonable.

Drives-wise, they’re all SSDs. So more energy-efficient by a long shot, which is nice.

I wish I could run CAT6, but I rent ! But someday, for sure. Internet speed is absolutely going to be my biggest bottleneck here. But Unraid is a great idea. And somehow, I never even thought of hosting my own website… that’s definitely one of the many moves here. Thanks!

Is proxmox essentially the consumer equivalent of Hypervisor/ESXi? I’ve used the latter at work a bunch.

That’s a lot to look into! Thank you much for all of the ideas!

It …wasn’t cheap.

Unfortunately? Just the internal one, lol. Biggest bummer about this server is that it’s a 1U blade, and all of the PCIe slots are only x8 as the rest of the lanes are more or less consumed by the NVMe slots.

In all fairness, the CPUs were actually the cheapest part, lol. Only 80 bucks a few weeks back for the pair off of eBay. I could’ve technically gone with the 2699 v4’s but the perf gain over the v3s for the price really just wasn’t worth it. Not a bad idea… internet archives are always a good move! Thanks!

Much thanks; will do!

Another thing - any recommendations, ideas, or tips for home setup would also be much appreciated. E.g. do y’all usually set up your own VPN? Haven’t done that before. Host anything locally that you think is a must-have? Thanks again!