I'd guess a good portion of us have been at that point in our lives but has moved on and downsized or shudders at the thought of keeping that monstrosity of a rack in service or updated :P

I'm not, even though I also DIY. A multi-2.5GBe port fanless N6005 mini-PC (plus a cheap barebones WiFi AP) does it for router, switch, storage, game server (Valheim & Satisfactory), timeserver (chrony), DNS (unbound with blocklist), InfluxDB, MQTT, and it doesn't even sweat, and consumes less than 20W combined.

And not a single mention of the noise level in this room. Those rack servers get insanely loud.

I had a single SuperMicro in the basement one summer and it had to go after a month or so. You could hear it everywhere.

Was it a 1U server? 2U and 4U servers can be typically be configured or modified to run at a noise level comparable to a gaming desktop. Performance 1U servers you'll hear through the floor though for sure.

I can tell you my 1U R620 servers lasted less than 6 months before I sold them for 2U R720s. I still wouldn't want to sit in a room with the R720s but you couldn't hear them through a door. Sold those when I moved and downsized to a tower server R430, equivalent to a 4U. It's in my office now and no louder than my desktop. I'll get rid of the raid array and downsize to a single hdd at some point to silence the heads clicking though.

Definitely a performance server. Multiple high-pitched fans running nonstop.

I'm more interested in my colocation setup than my home setup. I have 2x1u in two different data centres.

Just built one of my new servers (Cisco UCS 220 M5) with 2x 4TB Enterprise NVMe drives, 4x 2TB enterprise SAS SSD drives and 4x 2TB SSD drives, 256GB of ram and 2x Intel Gold 6230 (20cores). I don't even need this, I just want it.

Just deciding on if to keep with FreeBSD and bHyve which I love, or go with VMware.

If owning an IP block wasn't €LOL, I'd complete my monopoly set.

(Sorry, had to brag somewhere)

Go with Proxmox, you'll love it even more

Owning an IP block is baaically free, with IPv6. Pity that network effects (pun not intended) make that impractical right now.

It's very cool, I just don't know what I would ever do with it. And I'm not saying that means therefore I don't see why anybody else would need or want it, I would never use it though. I was thinking about running an ethernet cable or two around the house to hook up a 1gb link but I couldn't be assed in the end because wifi is good enough. It's not like I can max out my 11mb/1mb home internet. \My new laptop's wifi is a bit flaky so maybe I'll do it this year if the drivers and firmware don't come good.

Cameras and weather station are nice though.

I'm definitely jealous. I think it's ridiculous and awesome at the same time. I imagine it uses a lot of electricity though.

I'm definitely not jealous, it just looks like an annoying pain in the ass. I have a faster network than the OP and it's cheaper and wireless and I don't have any servers or cable everywhere nor maintenance to do...

You’re running faster than 10Gbps on wireless? How’s that?

He shows his Internet speed in one of the photos and it's slow. Not even Gigabit.

It's probably running several aggregated 60GHz links, or it's own private 5G millimeter wave deployment.

That’s still not going to crack 10Gbps.

I wouldn’t want to read a blog about your setup.