That’s mostly semantics, for me at least.

I have only one NAS, and one Proxmox host that is up 24/7, so they are in production.

I regularly tinker with those two as well, it’s all part of my lab.

It’s a homelab when I’m just screwing around with some new software just to test it out. It becomes homeserver when I need to schedule maintenance windows to update things.

That’s part of the reason why I scaled back a lot of the stuff I had at home a few years ago. I maintain enough of this stuff at work. I don’t want to do it at home.

home datacenter would be the term

/u/justinrlloyd do you have photos of your chore board. Definitely at the point in my life that when I saw that I got really excited.

I feel like this is much more than many people on here are ready to undertake.

Also, homelab is a kinda vague designation, so it stops being one when you say so. I know people who call homelabs their NAS running a couple of containers, so go crazy.

It stops being homelab when the focus goes from labbing to production, when it becomes a homeprod enviroment instead.

A homelab is whatever you use to tinker and try things out A homeserver is whatever you use for stable workloads

Both can coexist at the time

Next level is a home datacenter, and that's where you have a 24 U rack or something that shouldn't fit in an apartment You have a homedatacenter!

I'm if you can post more about the hardware software and network config really curious about your setup, it looks well thought

homelab and homeservices should be 2 different things and separated as much as possible but can share some like a network. Not sure why you to trace where connected where, use UniFi network diagram and some IPAM solution to track VLANS an IP addresses.

If I have no personal connection to the building, is it a house lab?

A bit off topic but I want to see some IRL pictures of all that stuff lol

The Lorem ipsum is the best part.

Also most people don’t add monitors to their network diagrams. That’s just a flex.

Well you see... if your home labbing a home lab in a sub reddit called homelab, its probably going to be en grained as a homelab

Good God, man! On the one hand, I think you are absolutely insane. But on the other, I am completely envious. Rock on!

Adding ip address is a good idea, even if it is in foot note fashion.

It's always been a home server.

When I liked have a AD domain and DHCP running on it and the whole Media server part as well. I am working to seperate the two and have running my lab off of old Dell desktops from the servers I was using since my power bill went up. Also anything like my game server, Media Server, and Casa OS server and AD server I have moved to micro PC's when I feel like blowing stuff up it wont affect the entire house.

Home datacenter

Tell me you take adderall without telling me you take adderall. OP was locked in on this one boys.

This has evolved to a HomeCloud setup.

You are asking the wrong question... when does server become lab (multiple servers).

homelab = everything is in prod

homeserver = you have a dev/prod environment

A homeserver is just a component(s) of your homelab...

Bro, you are running a small/medium size office at this point. Not a home lab. This MF has a rack in 2 different data centers. What are you using those racks for? Off side backups? Redundancy?

God damn dude. You are running a medium size office at this point. Not a home lab. Also why did you decide to go with 2 different data center and what's the purpose of the data center in taxes(I can't see the text very well from mobile). Also what is your current IP schema for home and DC.

Most people have a homeprod... Some of us also have a homeLab! (Modified from an old IT saying)

Can you do rm -rf / on everything in your “lab”? Yes: still a lab. No: not a lab.

Stops being a homelab when you have SLA’s

If you can turn it off and still do things, it's a homelab. If you run services on it that are vital to your home, then it's a home server.

The meaning of "homelab" has changed over the years. Originally it was literally just having the hardware you'd find in the lab at home. e.g. you were taking classes for a CCNA and instead of going to the school's lab for hands-on with the hardware you'd just replicate the setup at 'home'. Nothing in the setup would be relied on beyond the specific thing you're testing in the moment. If you're going to stick to the original intent of the name, anything beyond "lab" use wouldn't be "homelab".

Now it skews more to meaning anything you're using to learn the technology even if you're using it as the equivalent of production and rely on it being up as a part of your daily life.

are you running 9" displays in place of physical photos in frames? Curious how this is setup. Is there a write-up somewhere?

edit: same for "the wall" with the 6x 55" screens.

You, diagram? I just keep throwing crap into the mix and trying to remember which vlan and ip scheme its supposed to use and which device has access. Order is for work, Chaos is for personal enjoyment.

When there's a risk of people complaining when one of your shared services goes down.

Questions: Are you in deep shit if the cat bathroom rack goes down?

Jukebox project sounds cool. Any extra info on that?

What's the deal with the Oh-Fuck server in the arcade cabinet?

Also, 84 cores in the arcade cabinet? Just... damn.

I don't see a single other person mentioning it, so I'll just say it: 52TB of flash storage alone is enough to make me jealous. 52TB of flash storage in an RV is just a few more layers on top.

Sad that the picture-wall project repository isn't open on github - I hoped to see it in action. Seems very neat.

Holy shit.. thats quite a "home" enterprise

When I started doing informal change control reviews with family and scheduling disruptive work outside of peak windows to avoid "user impact" - also having critical hot spares available, haha.

We need some pictures

Lower Guk was more fun than Upper Guk.

Fight me.

HOLY FUCK! Dude so many things I've never though of.