Almost 10 yrs ago it already started w/ 3x #HP#DL385 G5 (3rd in another rack). Each of them w/ 64GB RAM and 2 CPU setup. Nowadays, even larger VMs already come with this amount of RAM. I love building my own and independent #infrastructure and #AS.
@gyptazy I don't like the cloud. I have a healthy distrust of it. I'm in the process of building a home lab to eventually host everything. I'm currently hosting my blog and #Mastodon instance on prem on my desktop PC. I want to move those to a server I'm building and then start hosting my own email. Yeah, people tell me not to do email but how am I going to learn if I don't!?
@housepanther that’s also how I started back in the days of my beginning: learning by doing! And why should you not host your own Mailserver? It’s a great possibility to learn many things, it also includes DNS (and why PTR is important), how and why spam works and how to block it, depending on the setup setting up and managing SQL databases and much more.
@gyptazy I'm building things out slowly as I get money to do so but I've been a long time user of Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. I just want to learn now about more complex network/systems administration. Unfortunately, I'm recovering from a 700.00 mistake. ☹️
@housepanther Even it's great hardware, don't fire with canons on it. When testing and learning you will not have so much load that you need this big sized systems (except you want to run everything on a single system or in VMs which also may make sense when trying multiple things at once). Keep in mind that such systems require much power which also may boost up the electricity bill. Depending on your location a hosted server in a data center may even be cheaper - just to keep in mind.
@housepanther just in addition, if you're playing much with #BSD based systems the #BSDCafe (https://bsd.cafe) including its Matrix channel etc. might be interesting for you.
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