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Cabling. Has to be cabling. It is the only thing I don't enjoy. More specifically, cabling the whole home.
Documentation. Like proper documentation.
Shelling out for it, and the ongoing costs.
Electricity might be "cheap" in amreica. But in the Real world, selfhosted costs real money that takes from other necessities like heating/cooling.
Don't try to bullshit me, power is expensive in AU, and Heat/Cool is regularly on.
My quarterly with a VERY modest system, and really taxing rules on power (read using AC/HEATING) and my quarters are still $600AUD.
Hope you have a good paying job, or live in a country that doesn't give a shit about power costs.
Trying to learn new things that are sometimes too complex and once you figure it out, you have to start all over again because is not properly set up and pose a risk.
Also, money. It's expensive to buy high-end parts + electricity bill.
Getting the money to purchase the hardware. Its all downhill after that!
Remembering to do something with it other than build it.
Racking things in my tiny "server room"
DNS… it’s always DNS
It's all painful. Constant frustration, self-doubt, mistakes, shit just mysteriously stops working. It's emotional masochism.
Setting everything up an put it in place only to it not boot because there's no keyboard/monitor. I literaly have a server on my desk waiting for BIOS config bcz of this.
Before I realized what happened i changed cables, ports on switch, added a network car to test things but nothing was working. On cart everything seemed to work.
I wasnt untill i dragged the server to my desk I realised what should be happening... Tested and verified. Dropped to work on next morning. Been 3 weeks since.
Probably almost getting hit in the head by a steel rack post or installing an APC2200 by myself. Then maybe all the small cuts and bruises from my broken eBay rack rails...
Oh you didn't mean physical?
Jokes aside, my TrueNAS is a perpetual worry machine for me. All the drives are second-hand and the pool is encrypted. I have off-site backups but I know someday I'll lose the encryption key, three drives will go bad at the same time, some update will make the machine unbootable etc.
I'm also security paranoid and quite often cut my nose to spite my own face because of it; trust me, you don't need management VLANs and LACP for absolutely everything. You'll just end up locking yourself out of an otherwise perfectly functional system.
Being to poor to get a proper system, so now I have older Xeon CPU, tons of RAM and a irreplaceable motherboard that is also SFF.
It only draws 100 watts idle, but that shit adds up :(