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What is the most painful step on setting up a homelab in your experience? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by submain@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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For me it is writting docker compose files describing my services. I like to test them on my machine before pushing them to the server(s). But I guess that's my own fault for not using something like portainer or even SSHFS.

What's the most annoying / painful step for you?

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[–] ClownWorld11@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll probably beat everyone...living in Australia!..

Super super high electricity bills and finding a small case to build a NAS here... Everything here is practically Apple or off the shelf...people look at you strange for even having a NAS, let alone a DIY NAS.

The only case that just became available here is a Silverstone cs351 unless you're going to spend thousands.

I thought, this is exactly what I wanted... After unpacking it, what do you think I've been doing?

Practically rebuilding the case because it has almost zero air flow...no front fan, and only exhaust fans...and because I'm in Australia, it's almost summer where we get easily over 110f or 40c...

I won't go into the price of things in Australia or having already ordered 2 different cases from different shops for this build and being told it could be a 6 month wait....after I paid for it...

[–] ubermoo2010@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah and Ebay isn't filled with millions of bits of excellent used equipment, you'd be lucky to find a 10 year old Dell server without cpu and memory and a 4 year old Ruckus AP that looks like it's been run over by a truck but the condition description is "Refurbished".

I use a Nuc for all 24/7 services and the 9 disk NAS goes to sleep for most of the week to save on power.