Crikey.
tech2but1
joined 2 years ago
I have various Mikrotiks that I arbitrarily set up for this sort of thing. Handy thing with them is that you can script the startup mode, like if it can ping 8.8.8.8 on ether1 then set it up as a router, if there is no internet on the WAN port then switch to bridge mode or some such. I've got a couple of different scripts to save having to manually reconfigure it every time.
$30-50 is the cheapest you can get a data service over there? I have multiple unlimited 5G SIMs for £16-18 per month with unlimited data.
You can work this out yourself pretty easily. How much does your electric cost? How much does it cost to run that 80W Pavilion? It'll be pennies per day. Unlikely that it would make financial sense to upgrade, which is why I still have noisy HP G7s in my rack, cheaper to keep them than upgrade.
Mines round my mums house as I have no fixed internet at mine. House is up for sale so it has to be explained to potential buyers that it isn't part of the house and it's not usually this warm or noisy in here when they get to the room with the rack in!
DokuWiki. Quite a few natty plugins to go with it, light, simple, host anywhere.
Love seeing a rack mounted next to a sewage access plug!
Yeah the IP:s are there for the world to see, but you won't easily know they belong to me unless I point to them from my domain.
As has been pointed out though, it makes no difference and no-one cares. No-one is manually cross referencing IP's and domains, and besides, what difference will it make anyway?
I've heard this argument before with someone saying they use DDNS on all customer sites instead of static IPs as it's "more secure" because there's a website out there with exposed desktops listed on it.
I've heard of PDUs definitely in passing but I didn't know that they could have some leakage current
They don't. Maybe the equipment connected to them will but the PDU leaks nothing of any significance, it's fairly passive.
No.
Whilst the drives might be fine there's not much point trying to cram enterprise drives in a desktop PC. Waste of time this, better off just throwing any old drives in and making sure your backups are in place instead.
If you want to use enterprise gear start with the motherboard and memory, you're doing this backwards (I'll refrain from doing the upside down joke here!)
They won't just plug in to your network and share access with anyone as some other commenter is suggesting. They want to protect their customers from you as much as you want to be protected from them.
You really need to ask them, we don't know what they are fitting or how they are doing it. Surprised they are sharing your internet, I started a WISP and when we did this we'd have our own connection, we wouldn't just share the homeowners internet.