From 57a85a871c3c30467bfee0a7e7013594301d4698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alex Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 14:51:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Mise=20=C3=A0=20jour=20de=20'Home'?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- Home.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 74ac309..76d6197 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Since then I joined my dream company and became [Commercial Lead at Canonical And yet, it seemed a bit hypocritical of my part to keep most of my stacks on public clouds. Moreover, since I am now in charge of procuring servers for our infrastructure, I might as well acquire one of those for myself and have fun with it ! Well, most probably one of the great grand fathers of the kind we get at Canonical, but still ;-D ). **Finally, it might be fun to prove that you can compete with public cloud prices even with modest/commodity hardware, since Canonical and its clients already do with larger infrastructures.** -So, that's the plan: +So, here's the plan: 1. get a cheap server on ebay, 2. set it up in my home, @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ So, that's the plan: # 0. Current situation -Before going on our first phase of the plan ("buying, shopping, spending"), it might be useful to get a feel of what we have and how it is used. This will give us guidelines and orientations on the specs we are looking for. +Before going on our first phase of the plan (a.k.a.: "buying, shopping, spending"), it might be good to get a feel of what we have and how it is used. This will give us guidelines and orientations on the specs we are looking for. ## Online.net @@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ Price for this machine is 32 € / month. ## Home NAS ### Specs Qnap TS 451+ : -* Intel® Celeron® J1900 4-core/4-thread at 2.0GHz (turbo: 2.42 GHz), very sim -* 8 GiB RAM +* Intel® Celeron® J1900 4-core/4-thread at 2.0GHz (turbo: 2.42 GHz), +* 8 GiB RAM, * 4x2To disks set in a RAID5 array. This NAS is already 7 years old and has proven reliable. @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ For instance, I read that HPE is only supporting their own brand of hard disks ( ![ebay_disks](https://gitea.micouleau.info/alex/homelab-project/raw/commit/9769a81d550ccb2a177abd0821cc15613d5950fd/ebay-hdd.png) -4 HDD certified for my server for a total of yet again 130 € with shipping. They are second hand HDD. But they are sold as "working". I'll run some tests on those to check their real mileage. +4 HDD certified for my server for a total of 115 € with shipping. They are second hand HDD. But they are sold as "working". I'll run some tests on those to check their real mileage. This config is promising as it looks like it fits both my needs and budget.