DigitalDilemma

I hope this sack of shit burns to death in his own crappy creation some day.

Whilst I share your sentiment, Elon Musk did not create Tesla Motors.

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning did. Musk only got involved, and later inserted himself on the board and ultimately took it over, after they sought him out for capital investment. I often wonder what they think about that decision today.

A reasonably unbiased write up

Ok, that’s fair, thank you.

But distributed geographical sites? Useful for SME’s and above, but aside from a few edge cases where friends might want to share hosting resources, is that a homelab thing?

Aimed at self hosting, but S3-compatible and designed to run at different physical locations?

Surely the venn diagram for that has not such a big overlap?

I don’t think I can agree with that, and I’m a pretty agreeable chap.

In the days when people actually cared about the html layout and readability, FP spammed everything hugely, and inserted a lot of terrible cruft. Inventing zillions of new <style> tags for everything, even when the user just wanted to italicise a word. Use a <i> tag? No! We’ll invent a whole new style class and embed it in the headers.

A few years ago I rather stupidly agreed to take over hosting of a website for someone that was dying. It had been written with FP and it took me months to de-cruft it using a lot of regexp and scrifting. (Some 8,000 images and around 2000 .html files).

So you need the self control required to add this extension for those sites you don’t have the self control not to visit too often?

If it prevents us having another crappy week thanks to the like of Crowdstrike, good.

Exactly. Yet another truly awful something is about to happen that’ll get buried under his new patio.

Other have answered the runtime and load question very well already.

I have three other points.

1. Batteries degrade over time. Over-speccing your UPS means more likelyhood that things will hold up in three years time as the capacity given is for new ones. Plus, not running your UPS at 100% capacity reduces its stress. Again, more reliable.

2. You can get a much better quality UPS by buying a second hand one without batteries off ebay and replacing them yourself, typically for a fraction of the cost of buying new. Plus you know you have new batteries. UPS is something where quality genuinely matters. I’ve had to carry a cheap and badly made UPS out of an office whilst it was on fire, so now I spec more carefully. (And ensure they’re metal bodied!)

3. Consider what you NEED to power. What sort of power cuts are you expecting? Does it matter if something goes down?

I UPS my servers and my main desktop, but not my routers, nor my wifi or IOT things. My internet provider also goes out when there’s a cut (I’m on a mesh system so rely on neighbours, who will typically also be down) and I can’t do much without power anyway, but it keeps the disks spinning. We typically get very short automated outages here of less than 10s (yesterday was a bad day, we had 9 within 2 hours)

Because Musk has turned it into somewhere that hate speech is not only tolerated, but encouraged.

Lemmy is literally the antithesis of X, no wonder you’re being downvoted.

Why are you cross posting content from a hate site?

Whatever you use, don’t build it to a definitive target.

From personal experience, which may not be universal: No matter how carefully you plan this, your needs will change sooner than you think. Expect to re-organise things things, make changes constantly, and occasionally deal with messes you made. We do this to tinker and play and experiment, and that creates mess.

So design something you can change. Luckily, that is what racks are about anyway, but do stuff like having space behind it for an extra coil of cable, space between servers, a shelf or two for those annoying random things, ability to extend. Space around it to work and move (don’t fix it to a wall in such a way that you can’t reach it all - wheels are good together with enough cable flex to be able to easily pull the rack out so it doesn’t go Whoo… as everything suddenly powers down)

Obviously some rules are hard-baked, like “heavy stuff at the bottom”, but be fluid.

A perfect use for them - controlled environment, difficult conditions, repetitive and predictable workflow.

But I’m puzzled by the design - why have a cab? Wouldn’t a more efficient layout be a whole-bed platform with all systems underneath?

Play store is impossible to browse to see what’s worth trying for this reason.

“Free speech” for these people has only meant for them.

ecological compatibility,

The what now?

You’re welcome.

Yes, you can create a list of files that takes little space, in linux that’s just “tree” to produce a list of directories and files (I don’t know about Windows, sorry)

But only you can answer what you need to back up. If you judge the effort to re-download this data is more than the effort of backing it up (especially if you’re on a slow link), then backing it up makes more sense. Everyone has their own appetite for risk and their own shape of what they can spend in both time and money in sorting this. The important thing is that you’re thinking about it before you need it, that’s good!

A pet subject of mine.

Firstly - sit down and consider what you need to backup.

• Tier 1 - unique data. Stuff you created that doesn’t exist elsewhere.
• Tier 2 - Stuff that would take a few days to repeat. Local configs, etc.
• Tier 3 - Stuff you can just download again. (Steam library, media etc)

Don’t backup Tier 3. I’m betting the size of data you need to back up shrinks a lot.

Secondly - automate it. If there’s anything manual, then you’ll eventually stop doing it. Automate, automate, automate - and throw in some manual or automated checks of the backups to verify they’re actually usable.

Thirdly - airgap it if you can, and if there’s much Tier 1 data. Offline disks. This gives you some protection against ransomware. Consider the risks and how to protect yourself. Obviously media failure, accidental deletion and ransomware, but also consider theft and fire. Do you really want your backups in the same location? Do they need encryption?

I wrote quite a long blog on the subject if you’re interested in more.

A real passion project.

Good on you!

My aim is for 4x10TB to run on RAID 5.

I strongly recommend not putting 5x 10tbs in raid 5 if you value data integrity of the set. Chance of failure during a rebuild following a dead disk is disproportionately high.

Consider instead: Raid 1+0, Raid 6 or ZFS. I use 1+0 in my 4x4tb set as a reasonable compromise for usable space and speed.

One of thousands of such articles; https://www.askdbmgt.com/why-raid5-should-be-avoided-at-all-costs.html

“Avoid US based software and services”

TLDR; you can’t. At least not if you’re running any kind of business.

I did a quick audit at work a few weeks ago. Over 90% of our stack is US based. Windows, office, 365, vmware, even our linux distros. And that’s without even thinking about supply chain. And most of the the hardware we use and has support licences.