Even though my ikea rack has served me well, I am happy with my newest server room update.

Before: https://devrant.io/rants/405246/...

Does it help you dry your clothes? 😁

@shellbug haha well it surely does better than the washer

I am forcing my self not to ask about that cluster...please give info..I sold my optiplex cluster a while ago...

@apollotonkosmo it's just a small scale cluster of single core nodes which I use to test software I develop that is supposed to be scalable.

I posted a rant about it a little while ago. You can check that out here: https://devrant.io/rants/826569/...

@ChappIO thanks chapp!!!!

Doesn't the shakes from the washer affect your rack? :p

@lotd I was wondering the same thing. 🤔 My washer shakes a lot.

Seeing you guys with your servers and talking about clusters and all that stuff makes me feel like a fucking muggle playing with dirt pretending it's magic. I hope someday I can get to your level.

@gitcommit don't worry, you're not alone. I don't know how to setup something like this either.

@lotd nope, there's a good 20 cm between them and the rack is on wheels so it's fine.

I mean it's not datacenter stability but I'm not running million dollar software on it either :p

@gitcommit oh lol I didn't know any of this stuff until I just built a server. Google is my best friend

the cable managment almost made me nut

@ParkCity Haha thanks xD remind me to keep you out of my server cabinet though.

@ChappIO "the rack is on wheels" sounds like it's ready for a street race. 😎

Are you planning on filling that empty space in the bottom?

@shellbug My housemate just purchased his first home server as well so he can play around with this stuff.

I also intend to move the cluster a little bit lower so that I can mount a slide-out tray for the keyboard above the blue server. Other than that, no concrete plans yet.

@ChappIO Did you say... Google?
@linuxxx

@Faraaz Lol you're just looking for a fight huh?

@Faraaz 😷

@ChappIO I'm really interested in learning myself, but I'm not sure how much functionality I would use from a server. I'm considering paying AWS while I have the student fee and try to deploy my web apps there. Maybe set up a mail client. But I don't know what other things I could do with it.

@gitcommit Let me suggest your first project: Set up a continuous integration system using something like jenkins so you can test the things you develop every time you push a commit.

@ChappIO omg I totally forgot stuff like that was what got me interested in servers themselves. Thanks for the suggestion :)

@ChappIO 😂😉✌️

@gitcommit just get a bunch raspberries and you can cluster them with Docker swarm

@620hun that's how I started my cluster but quickly found out that that idea doesn't work for real-world applications because pies only run arm binaries.

You'd be better off with a bunch of second hand pieces of junk pcs.

@ChappIO I'm facing the same problem, but actually there are many arm ports now. But I agree, although it's more resourceful than the pis.

@620hun sounds like a broke student server. Just my kind of server.

Just out of a coriosity ...
You do not have to talk in numbers, but I saw and heard now from many people who are running their own physic at home ...

You must pay like mt doom in power bills ... Is it a thing you are just live with or are you earning actual money with it?

(I understand if you do not want to talk about money in public.
If (case) ? me.ignore : me.answer
)

@Rohr No I am not earning money with it. I use the blue server (I call it overlord) for my day-to-day stuff and practical things. The cluster is turned off most of the time and I only boot it to run tests.

That's what I use it for, tests. I develop enterprise software and I use the cluster to test in a 'load balanced' environment.

By having the cluster off most of the time, the power bill isn't too bad. The rest of the rack draws an average of 80W which costs a decent amount of money but to me it is worth the stuff I learn from the hands-on experience.