Found this community some time back but I had quite a bit on and wasn’t able to get involved.
I’m Stellios, avid homelabber and technologist. I’ve got the usual suspects, 2x HP Microservers serving the family (Plex and friends), and another, far beefier Proxmox server running in a datacentre for my more intensive compute requirements.
I’m located on the southside, but in a few months will be moving out west towards Toowoomba.
Looking forward to joining the meetups if my schedule allows!
G’day Stell, and welcome! Hope you can make a local meeting or two before your move, but the group also meets once a month online as well. Southside location will hopefully suit you better for the next few in person meetings too (e.g., 25 Sept and 23 Oct are at Carindale Library).
What sort of Microservers are you running? I’ve still got two maxed out N36Ls but they haven’t been powered up in a little while! The newer Gen10 and Gen11 ones are tempting, but I don’t need any more hardware at home .
My “prod” is an old N40L with a Dual core AMD Turion. Slow as anything but it does the job! And my backup, which will eventually swap places with “prod” is a Gen10.
The next meeting is online on 9 September, and the next face to face is at Carindale Library on 25 September. It would be great if you can get to that meeting so you can put a face to our handles. (Admittedly, some of our faces could be prettier.)
Is there anything you are working on that you would like to know (or tell) more about? As you have probably read recently in the other threads we are trying to work out how to get the most out of the meetings for all those who come along.
One N36L is a TrueNAS machine which only gets switched on when I need a large network drive to temporarily back something up. At some stage I need to look at where I can improve the performance and use it more regularly, but I haven’t got around to it. The second N36L hasn’t been powered up in years - I think it’s actually got ESXi 5.5 on it still! It’s in the too good to get rid of pile, but I probably need to do something with it at some stage.
Current “prod” workloads of mine are on a 1U Supermicro server, with a mix of other hardware or VPSes being used to run things as required.
I swear, once I have time (and money) I’ll be doing it. I love the Microserver form factor. If Supermicro releases a similar size/feature combo I’d be all over it.
Oh I work on all sorts of silly things. I’m usually found neck deep in my Kubernetes cluster deploying apps for prod use (my business) or just experimenting with apps. I’ve also been spending a lot of time in Proxmox, as I am so anti-Broadcom now it’s starting to hurt.
Welcome!
I’m still to make an online meetup, but do my best to make the in person meetings. Hope to see you in the next.
Based on the north side, but got a number of friends out in Toowoomba. Love the space out there! and enjoy taking the drone out with me when visiting.
I saved this for when I had a chance to come back and have a look at it properly.
That’s a pretty slick way to recycle the case and drive cage. It’s a real shame there were no aftermarket or community projects to make a motherboard for the N36L/N40L/N54L given how many of them there were out there.
… actually, apart from the heatsink, my new MOUGOL X99 Gaming Motherboard Kit with Intel Xeon E5 looks like it would fit as the mobo is tiny !
I’ve about six of the HP n40’s in my collection, one is still unopened in its shipping box!
Two have exploded over the years, in one, a PSU (theyre cheap and nasty, what do ya expect for the price) was responsible, probably with a little help from Lismores humidity, the other was the CD drive with big black burns everywhere, crazy. CD drives never go bang, right ?
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