Subj : Anyone seen/connected to...
To   : esc
From : Accession
Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 18:32:58

Hello esc,

On Tuesday December 05 2023 15:47, you wrote to me:

 Ac>> How long did all that take?

 es> The better part of a year. I still need to tune the EFI. I've
 es> kinda...reached the apex of my ability level for that type of thing.
 es> Any more and I need to go to a shop with a dyno and someone that's
 es> really dialed into doing this specific type of work.

Damn! A year is pretty damn quick. Not to mention what seems to be quite a bit of cash you've already dumped into it.

 es> Oh and I guess the trunk interior needs to be finished as well.

If I remember right, you don't have any kids? Nevermind my previous sentence. I know how you did it now. :D

 es> Or you could move! hehe.

I would love to. The wife is the one who's against it. I'm not sure she can move much further from her crazy mother, and we're only about 30 minutes away. 

 es> BTW - I remember coming across an older post of yours where you talked
 es> about your proxmox setup. I'm looking at doing a little homelab
 es> project myself and migrating all my BBS stuff out of cloud VPS and
 es> into my house. Any hardware recs? It wouldn't be doing anything super
 es> stout, just a few VMs - linux, windows, and (if possible) some DOS
 es> VMs. Not even sure that's a thing lol.

My VMWare setup, I reckon. But the discussion did have a couple people involved that used and/or preferred Proxmox. The choice between the two is completely up to you, though. Take a look at some screenshots of both and see which one catches your eye. Otherwise, they basically do the exact same thing. I've ran VMWare 6.5.0 (Update 1) since it was released (it was the latest version at the time I set this all up, like 2017 I think). Never had any issues, never had to upgrade, never had to reinstall or change anything. Proxmox is more than likely just as solid, and probably much easier to download. I just re-visited the VMWare download page, and looks like you have to create and account and login in order to even download the latest ISO (8.0 Update 2).

I bought a (New) HP Proliant ML310e Gen8 Tower server from Ebay back then for somewhere in the $300-$400 ballpark (Don't bother looking on Amazon, they're upwards of 1k+). Xeon E3-1230 @ 3.30ghz, 32gb ram, 4 x 2TB HDDs that I've setup in a RAID1 configuration. If one drive fails I can swap to the mirror drive and replace the bad one, and don't remember the rest of the specs. It has definitely served it's purpose for 5+ years and most likely was a bit overkill, but eh well. For quite a while I ran 3 VMs 24x7, one of them being a plex media server, which streamed to our TVs all around the house over wifi at 1080p without issue, while the two other VMs were running. 

As for recommendations, this thing is a pretty solid machine, but you may not even need all that. For the price point and how long it has lasted me without issue whatsoever, I can't complain one bit, though.

You could also check on shipping costs from Canada, as I believe Nick Andre (Atreyu) is/was (or is always) looking to get rid of some hardware for free.

Regards,
Nick

.... "Take my advice, I don't use it anyway."
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