DIY router build
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@Johann said in DIY router build:
@StuartJordan - You were correct as I will be using the router as my main router instead of a traditional COTS router:
https://mangolassi.it/post/549470My apologies that this wasn't clear in the OP.
I'm currently assembling a parts list for a build or two.
Always fun building it yourself.
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I'm gonna play devils advocate here, and say it's a complete waste of time to build a hardware lab. If you want to work SMB for 100 employee company, then fine whatever. They want to pay you to monkey around with hardware for a few servers instead of doing Colo or cloud.
Everyone on here giving the advice is passionate about their work and thorough, but unless you want to do IT service work or be one man IT shop, there isn't really any value in this stuff. Get an edge router and buy a cheap hardware device as @Pete-S recommended.
I actually had to check the date a few times on this thread and make sure it wasn't nearly a decade old. Because man this is dated way to learn. You'll find very little of what you want to learn, has to do with hardware or even a specific Colo or cloud. Notice how everyone talked about sever configuration or networking. Neither of those pertain to actual hardware. The implementation you'll be doing in the real world is both hardware and cloud agnostic.
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@IRJ I know what your saying, let the man play around though
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@IRJ said in DIY router build:
I'm gonna play devils advocate here, and say it's a complete waste of time to build a hardware lab. If you want to work SMB for 100 employee company, then fine whatever. They want to pay you to monkey around with hardware for a few servers instead of doing Colo or cloud.
Everyone on here giving the advice is passionate about their work and thorough, but unless you want to do IT service work or be one man IT shop, there isn't really any value in this stuff. Get an edge router and buy a cheap hardware device as @Pete-S recommended.
I actually had to check the date a few times on this thread and make sure it wasn't nearly a decade old. Because man this is dated way to learn. You'll find very little of what you want to learn, has to do with hardware or even a specific Colo or cloud. Notice how everyone talked about sever configuration or networking. Neither of those pertain to actual hardware. The implementation you'll be doing in the real world is both hardware and cloud agnostic.
This is why I mentioned going the Vultr route. While there could be some savings in setting up a dozen VMs on a local VM host at his house - it's not accessing like a business generally does anymore - as IRL is mentioning.
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@Dashrender said in DIY router build:
This is why I mentioned going the Vultr route. While there could be some savings in setting up a dozen VMs on a local VM host at his house - it's not accessing like a business generally does anymore - as IRL is mentioning.
It can be if you set it up that way. To a user, it's hard to tell the difference. Other than "putting in a credit card" most people using cloud experience nothing different than installing a VM on a hypervisor.
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@Dashrender said in DIY router build:
it's not accessing like a business generally does anymore
IT's still how 90% of business does it. Marketing aside, cloud isn't the majorit of workloads, and the majority of cloud is replicating legacy workloads.
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@scottalanmiller said in DIY router build:
@Dashrender said in DIY router build:
it's not accessing like a business generally does anymore
IT's still how 90% of business does it. Marketing aside, cloud isn't the majorit of workloads, and the majority of cloud is replicating legacy workloads.
That part definitely seems to be true
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@Dashrender said in DIY router build:
@scottalanmiller said in DIY router build:
@Dashrender said in DIY router build:
it's not accessing like a business generally does anymore
IT's still how 90% of business does it. Marketing aside, cloud isn't the majorit of workloads, and the majority of cloud is replicating legacy workloads.
That part definitely seems to be true
Yeah, there's actually very little work in "real" modern cloud app stuff. MOst development shops can't even do 1999 work well yet, the industry isn't ready to move past getting "web based" anytime soon.
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