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Hooray, UPS arrived. Heavy bugger... 35KG
The fun part of "real" servers is they have dual PSUs, so you can unplug one PSU and plug the UPS in, then unplug the other PSU and plug it in to the UPS and the server never loses power.
The downside of "real" servers is they eat power like I eat cake :(
What's your run costs estimate on this new beast you are making?
Uhm... A fair bit. Unless the wife asks, in which case it's very reasonable of course, why barely more than a standard desktop PC 😬
You want in on the Plex action? I'd feel a lot better about the money I'm ~~wasting~~ spending if more people were getting use out of it
I know I'd consider taking you up.
Who wants to pay for all of those streaming services when there could be an alternative? I'd even pay a subscription fee..
..say, monthly..
PM sent!
Offer is open to anyone on aussie.zone - just give me an email to send the invite to and away you go!
PS - best if the email isnt like... a work one.... just some disposable Gmail or Hotmail whatever. Something to receive details and initiate password resets if you forget it.
Haha, if the wife ever asks, I'll report very modest usage, possibly less then a desktop machine even, with custom power profiles! And much appreciate the offer, but I also run a bunch of self hosted things that, are also responsible power usage of coarse :) I have been enjoying your occasional updates on this project! Hahaha.
Sounds like you will have a pretty serious box by the end of this! What else are you planning on doing with it?
Currently it's running Plex and Jellyfin (on the same media content, just offering the option), the various arrs of course, with Sab and qBit via VPN as the downloaders.
Also runs Nextcloud and Paperless-ngx for work, along with Crashplan for backups.
Uses ddclient and an nginx reverse proxy so I can use my own (sub)domains on a dynamic IP, and also run a few public facing things like a WeTransfer type uploader, yt-dlp type downloader, and SearXNG which is surprisingly useful.
Got 120TB of spinnybois, dual parity drives, and 6TB of SSD cache. Tesla P4 GPU, 512GB of ram, dual Xeon CPUs...
Fair bit of capacity left there for future projects that's for sure.
Nice! And yeah wholly hell that's a lot of box! Tonne of headroom. Any fancy future projects? Going to spin up home assistant and head down that rabbit hole?
How you finding running your own searXNG?? I been thinking I should give it a crack, but I'm lazy lol
I've actually got a HA Pi which I setup and then promptly forgot about. Not actually sure where I've left it tbh. Looks like its still responding so I guess its still working wherever it is.
SearXNG is handy for looking for things like service manuals for units because it doesn't bubble you like Google does. The results tend to be more relevant for technical queries where I'm not trying to buy anything. You can give it a whirl:
The "Preferences" settings are all stored locally (to you) so you can try adding or removing different search engines until you get results that are consistently relevant. The "Response Time" drop down on the right hand side of search results shows which engines responded. DDG has a habit of showing parsing errors so I tend to disable it. Pretty sure its just Bing anyway.
Ah wicked thanks for the link and letting me use your rig! I'll def have a play around this weekend when home and not working!!
You can also try upload.seedbit.ch and download.seedbit.ch
Oh wow, you got some snazzy bits setup! Thanks, I'll have a play with that also!