Looking for idea's for my Home Lab
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Scott is thinking of this as more for a production system... Spinning it up on your own and testing it and getting a feel for it is a great idea... If you decide you like it and you want to not have to worry about what happens if your home internet goes down, then move it to DO or Vultr, et al.
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@DustinB3403 said:
So use a third party, or dedicated machine to do this, rather than configure it directly myself.
Defeats the goal then.
The goal is VPN access to anywhere, from anywhere, right? If not, what is your goal... and this is not likely the right tool for you.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
So use a third party, or dedicated machine to do this, rather than configure it directly myself.
Defeats the goal then.
The goal is VPN access to anywhere, from anywhere, right? If not, what is your goal... and this is not likely the right tool for you.
For a home lab environment, the purpose is learning to use it 8-) Besides -- he can run the controller bits out of his home lab as well. Just... if his home loses power or internet, there will obviously be issues, lol.
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@dafyre said:
For a home lab environment, the purpose is learning to use it 8-)
Are we sure. That's not the purpose of my home lab. I would state that my purpose is to learn how to use and operate equipment as if it was production. Learning the tech bits is good, learning the full operational mindset associated is better. Run it like a business rather than like a lab (even though it is a lab.)
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2015/06/make-your-business-jealous/
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@dafyre said:
Besides -- he can run the controller bits out of his home lab as well. Just... if his home loses power or internet, there will obviously be issues, lol.
How does it handle the connections if he IP address changes?
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It appears to operate in a similar fashion to P2P is the way it is described on their site. So I'm not 100% certain on that. My home IP is static (or very rarely changes).
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A service such as NO-IP would be capable of handling a dynamic IP for VPN service. Not an ideal solution but it is possible.
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@dafyre said:
It appears to operate in a similar fashion to P2P is the way it is described on their site. So I'm not 100% certain on that. My home IP is static (or very rarely changes).
That would still require the controller node to have a static IP. That's how Pertino and Hamachi work, they host the necessarily static portion.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Learning the tech bits is good, learning the full operational mindset associated is better. Run it like a business rather than like a lab (even though it is a lab.)
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2015/06/make-your-business-jealous/This is fine and I agree, when personal budget allows.
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@DustinB3403 said:
A service such as NO-IP would be capable of handling a dynamic IP for VPN service. Not an ideal solution but it is possible.
I haven't had to set up an IP address for anything to work. I set up my controller and made the network (I can share shell scripts if you are interested) and then told my clients to join the network and it figured everything out.
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@DustinB3403 said:
A service such as NO-IP would be capable of handling a dynamic IP for VPN service. Not an ideal solution but it is possible.
that probably would work
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Important to note that many end users call these clouds. But there is no cloud technology or approach in Pydio or ownCloud. There are just fileservers, nothing cloud about them.
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Many IT people know what is meant, but many do not. ownCloud having Cloud in their name is very confusing, of course. But it is just a normal application. The Cloud bit is just marketing.
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Try and find something that's fun or interesting and furthers your career!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Important to note that many end users call these clouds. But there is no cloud technology or approach in Pydio or ownCloud. There are just fileservers, nothing cloud about them.
Good point - I run mine on a hosted VPS and set it up as a sort of private cloud storage, but on a local test lab they would essentially be fancy file server interfaces.
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@WingCreative said:
Good point - I run mine on a hosted VPS and set it up as a sort of private cloud storage, but on a local test lab they would essentially be fancy file server interfaces.
Even on hosted VPS, nothing cloud about the software or setup. It may or may not have the VPS running on cloud computing, but that's separate under the hood. It's no more cloud than any other software installed to a VPS on the same platform.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@WingCreative said:
Good point - I run mine on a hosted VPS and set it up as a sort of private cloud storage, but on a local test lab they would essentially be fancy file server interfaces.
Even on hosted VPS, nothing cloud about the software or setup. It may or may not have the VPS running on cloud computing, but that's separate under the hood. It's no more cloud than any other software installed to a VPS on the same platform.
You got me there - I just went on a googling spree to learn the proper definition of cloud computing and found this NIST PDF. I don't see any mention of "a single VM running some software that makes serving files easier" so I am willing to admit that my use of the "private cloud" term may have been buzzwordy
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@WingCreative said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@WingCreative said:
Good point - I run mine on a hosted VPS and set it up as a sort of private cloud storage, but on a local test lab they would essentially be fancy file server interfaces.
Even on hosted VPS, nothing cloud about the software or setup. It may or may not have the VPS running on cloud computing, but that's separate under the hood. It's no more cloud than any other software installed to a VPS on the same platform.
You got me there - I just went on a googling spree to learn the proper definition of cloud computing and found this NIST PDF. I don't see any mention of "a single VM running some software that makes serving files easier" so I am willing to admit that my use of the "private cloud" term may have been buzzwordy
We have a nice video explaining the NIST documentation from SpiceCorps 2012 DFW presented by.... me!
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@WingCreative When I hear somebody say "Private Cloud" the first thing I think of is a VMware setup... The second is a Hyper-V setup... and the third is a XenServer setup, lol.
