really incredible stuff - thanks for sharing your HL and answering the questions.

Casual IDF in a closet, nbd 😂

I think you should go work in IT, think it would fit you right... "little" server room :P / Love the power monitor screen!

Punching in his name in Google seems to indicate he's a CTO so it checks out

was about to say...

@@Gamez4eveR I’m a CTO at one the biggest banks in the world and my Homelab isn’t anything close to that. Being a CTO explains nothing. That shit is crazy. For the next video I want to know what type of porn he’s downloading and distributing! 😉

Agree👍🏻

power company thinking wtf

@@Nossody well, he uses solar, so maybe the power company doesn't ever register that

@@danilocianfrone670 aint no way he powers that 10kW draw by solar panels located on top of his house. but then again, this aint a "homelab" either so he might just have a "HomePowerplant" located next door too lol

Yes, Solar does help some, but only on sunny days. In the summer my solar (53 panels) produces about 15kw for most of the day, but in the winter most days peak at 3-5kw, and sometimes 0. In net Solar makes about 1/3 of the power that I use.. so it helps, but I would need another 100 panels to be grid independent.

Linux users' setups are either a tin can or a server facility, nothing in between.

yay, unpaid labor.

Yes.

But maybe he doesn't have to "come home" he just never leaves

Homelab to get views

"pretty simple stuff", having a more advanced datacenter than any small business 😄

Anything is a homelab if your brave enough

exactly what i was thinking about 🙂

How did you comment 1 month ago?😮

My homelab consists of one used 1u dual zeon server 😂

Your homelab still is overkill to me.

@@BrunodeSouzaLino it started with an old dell optiplex. It takes time! I hope you get your dream homelab!!!

Yeah this is incredible Anyone want to take bets on how many VMs he actually needs xD Nevertheless, awesome stuff

get em dude lol this guys stuff is a tru mini dc in his hoouse with grafana

I'm an AWS employee and I think this might not be a bad assertion at all. ha!

Yea and uses big word and symbolisms to sound smart for no reason. Bet he has a lot of reddit karma too.

@@DG-kr8pt "me dumb dumb, me no understand big word"

@@Commission_ I meant initialism not symbolism, but if you want to know what symbolism means you should be able to just google it.

I'm genuinely curious about this - one person can only generate so much load I would have thought..? Maybe his other hobbies include high-resolution weather forecasting, flow simulations, FPGA synthesis, and building images for large embedded systems I guess it might be entirely for fun, since maintaining that amount of hardware and systems is a hobby itself. I'd certainly buy some overkill hardware for fun if money wasn't a factor

It’s all about convincing other corporations that AWS is just too expensive. I’ve got one client alone that requires 75 VMs. They could go to AWS and spend 75k at least, or they could pay someone to built it themselves.

and a jellyfin for the kids lol

@@StephenHoldaway surely he needs this for all 32 of his UKposts videos.

@@SusanPowers-wj2ow this set up is more than $75K

Except a bunch of cardboard and paper stuff in the UPS room ... electricity and cardboard/paper ?? really ?

Thanks Jeff... I need to add a couple of those Turning PI setups with RK1s!

Don’t see any raspberry pies! Blasphemy!

This is bananas. Let me guess, you serve a static html page from this..

but the power bill...

Bro about to become a cloud storage server

So apparently he's CTO at some American healthcare corporation.

@@tobywhiting10ah yes, money

@@absakwell also I mean. You have all those servers, they wouldnt be running for no reason. They serve customers clearly

​@@fxlltxtsearchum, no. This is a homelab. It's for home use. I'm sure he manages an even more impressive setup at a real DC where the customer data and services are running from. Running customer services and storing customer data at a CTO's house would be frowned upon to put it lightly

@@fxlltxtsearch A single one of those racks probably costs the cumulative salary of my life so far. In his following video he says its all home automation and shit, guy is a super nerd, why waste precious CPU cycles on making money 🤣

Indeed - I do have an economizer that pulls in outside cool air and vents the warm air into one of the lower garage labs - So I do get a little bit usable heat out of it in the winter.

@@jeffsponaugle6339lol you sound like a loser

@jeffsponaugle6339 ... Into 'one of' the 'lower garage' labs. So let's break this statement down a little... You have multiple labs in your house. Normally, multiple simply means >1. You, however, have at least 2 labs in your 'lower' garage. Meaning that you have at least two garages. And, since you had to specify which garage you're talking about, I'm assuming that you gave labs in both/all of them. ... Are you running the Oregon branch of the Institute (Fallout)? Should we be worried? Do you offer unpaid internships in exchange for security guarantees? Edit: all jokes aside, this setup of yours looks absolutely epic. I used to work at a 'flag carrier' of a relatively big hotel chain, and there I had occasional access to their server room (I think it ran the majority of the VM array for the whole company). It can't ever compare. There, I would see filthy racks caked with dust and grime, poor ventilation, non-existent temperature control, dim lighting... And here... This! Major props to you, my man!

@@jeffsponaugle6339 loser

To quote the guy, its just a "Little lab" 😂

​@@derpythecate6842at least not THE little one 😅

Meanwhile me with 1.5 mbps Centurylink DSL... 🤬

that's because most 5 person shops love to call themselves an 'enterprise'

​@@udirt I have a feeling it has enough power to serve multiple companies with 5K+ employees each for many many years.

@@kairatkempirbaev7183 no way... lets say each of these servers in his rack has 128 cores (which i don't really think) he would need 78 of them to give 5K people each just 2 cores (5000*2/128).

No.

$100+ per bill. $1200 per year bill.

@@josealfredfernandes if only it were that low

Yeah, a 10kW load is easily 1-2K USD per month 😅

@@hipster2283 come to India, Goa. It is this low here.

@@StephenHoldaway For 10 units per hour(10KW per hour) we pay rs 70 ($1 usd) approx.

10kW and it's *not all on yet*!

I have a couple servers that draw 3.6kW each, I went 100% solar with battery backup. The good thing is I don't need those servers powered up all the time. Makes no sense to do so. All my machines have remote power management so I can power them up and down from afar.

ok I gotta ask what's the rate in your area? cuz where i am it's about 0.11 USD / kWh

That is cheap, for me it's 0.25€ / kWh = 0.27 USD / kWh

For me it's $0.07/kWh so hopefully his is around that mark

I used to do corporate IT and with SMB's if you have 3+ physical servers, that's a customer that's investing in their infrastructure. It's different.

SMB owner, 20 staff: We've got 5 physical hosts (self built prosumer parts), 1 rack and a few NAS for backup (to 3 locations). Don't even have space for a server room!

Ha , the company I work for has multiple factories and our primarry server room has barly half of this , with 1G switches :)

We call it - cablep*rn!

Linus should be. He's horrible when it comes to enterprise IT.

I highly doubt he is jealous af.

Which one 😂

@@BloodyEpicG4m3rZ Torvalds Tech Tipps

@@chbrules that's not his skill set tho

He is just running Outlook Express on Windows XP. It lets him send two emails at once.

Plays Minecraft with his 3 friends

probably tor node

Yeah but it’s gotta be a huge plex server. That many jbods it’s gotta be petabytes. Unless he’s using old ass low cap drives in there, but given the rest don’t think so.

@@bluesquare23 I struggle to fill 15T with media I'd be interested to see a petabyte collection, now that's next level.

hes the neighborhood gov surveillance center, where do you think the insects retreat to when no ones around to be watched?

Let met get my bingo card! ;)

Surescripts ? / Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality. Sounds pretty cool.

we are waiting in anticipation

can't wait to see it.

how much does it cost to build? give us a summary how u built it what company provided the server or did you built it your self? i have so much questions

Mostly corporate stuff. You can store. Maybe UKposts video editing, maybe some corporate files etc. No one spends money for plex media servers because all the data is mostly considered p1r@cy. Trust me, your ISP will see your t0®®ents of 50+ gb per movie and impose speed cap or terminate your connection. Because it has legal consequences on their ISP licence. Typical homelab or self hoisted companies do need such equipment maybe to hoist their own websites, apps, GPU clusters, nas for employees for maybe sharing files for editing etc. As long as you earn from these, it's good. Earning $1 million a year and investing $1 million for equipment is not much because roi is just 1 year. Then profit profit minus the cost of maintenance and recurring investment like internet leased line, firewall subscription etc. Note: I do not recommended mining or p1r@cy of games/movies/tv shows etc. He surely uses his homelab to support and run his business.

@@josealfredfernandes I on the other hand do recommend sailing the high seas.

@@Botanical4038 Arr Arr brother, keep them seeded.

@@Botanical4038 😹 conversations like these scares me down to my spine.

@@josealfredfernandes”Trust me bro, your ISP sees your torrents” No they don’t. 😂😂😂 Ever heard of seedbox + VPN? Please… We’re not rookies here. 😂

Fortunately, I don't sit there much!

My guess is he was upset with IT in his company. He built this off-site to be independent and get his stuff done. Then IT found out and he was on the brink of getting fired. He showed the CEO his setup. CEO made him CTO.

​@@TheCarmacon Shadow IT would be an understatement. This is a whole shadow enterprise IT department lol. Looks like multiple companies' technical infrastructure could run off of that one privately-owned corporate data center located in a guy's basement alone.

he is the isp lol

@@ElmokillaXDK he'd still have to have upstreams and peers lol, hes far far far away from being a transit-free network

Excellent!

Does the lab serve any purpose other than just building for fun? I'm genuinely curious

Classic

Exactly, I'm curious to know that too!

my guess is he rents them out for profits

@@ipodtouchiscoollol Highly doubtful.

meh. color coding patch cables is a pretty pointless thing. just follow the cable lol

Same :(

This is the best comment so far... I just showed this to my wife and told her if you see me ever building something like this kick me out of the house :D

Indeed - I did infrastructure.. built up data centers, BGP peering, lots of switching and routing, but that was in the late 90s as things were just starting to boom. I still enjoy this level of building perhaps because it is not my full time job. None the less I think any CTO should be able to not just talk architecture and strategy but also do and build.

​@@jeffsponaugle6339absolutely. If you can do it you certainly have an understanding of what it can do and can't, diagnosing problems gives insight, and honestly there is a pleasure in getting new systems installed, hooked up and doing useful work. Your other half tho, must have superhuman understanding. It is nice to see a small DC in somebody's home, but I wouldn't be happy with your electricity bill. But if you're happy that's what matters. 15-20 years ago if I had the space I might have done something similar.

lol i'd like to do a DC job honestly. I have no experience so yeah

That would costs a fortune to colo