Yeah maybe. I just read it as it’s personal stuff based on this line.

I manage a very large OpenStack cluster for my day job and we just give people what they pay for.

Just for yourself? Why not rent or colo a dedicated server or two or three and install a hypervisor? What all do you even run for yourself that needs 25 servers?

Hey but that 600 dollars caused inflation. Also there was no recession during COVID that’s fake news! Strongest economy ever! /s

I tried this it was so loud. I’m not sure if since it’s the future you can buy a quiet rack mount servers. a few years ago I was doing a home rack in a small space was pretty much a space heater/airport plane takeoff sound simulator. I still have a mini rack but I basically use it to hold smaller computers from minisform or beelink. The DDR5 models make perfect hypervisors and they are cheap enough to cluster without feeling like you are killing the environment.

Although I do turn some older severs on in the winter to keep warm rather than use a space heater.

Zfs I lost so much data trying to use btrfs. And zvols are neat.

Thanks that’s kind of what I was thinking. Have you used cloudflared before?

I really want to figure out if it’s possible to stick it behind cloudflare or something. I would rather not expose any IP address directly to the internet. I’m leaning on just setting up a reverse proxy on a cheap cloud instance back to my home.

How are you routing it to the internet?

How fast is the disk use growing for you?

I have a beelink ser6 non pro and also this Um773

They both should be more than enough to run what you want.

There is also something like this if you want lower power but I’m kind waiting out a 64gb ddr5 model.

Lastly this is a good read if you want name brand stuff.

How much do you want to spend?