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As someone that works writing firmware for SAS devices… it’s happened all too many times

Thank you! That makes much more sense.

ELI5…?

True, he is sitting at a terminal - but it appears to be connected to an IBM 5150 or similar. So maybe not so dumb!

Looking at the rest of things more carefully - very likely a 5150, if not definitely. Iconic and hugely popular PC for its era, so it would make sense for sure.

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!