1.9 KiB
London
This location is my primary one. It's hosted at my address in northwest London in my rack cabinet in my bedroom (doubles as a white noise machine for falling asleep).
It consists of 3 servers, A,B and C.
A and B are my old personal computers but since I don't play that many games anymore the servers are now retired into the coal mine that is their duty as servers.
The "C" server is a raspberry pi 4. I plan to replace this once raspberry pi 5's become generally available. As well as increase the amount to fill out the 1U of rack space that can contain up to 4 Pi's.
Networking
Networking is fairly overkill I have to admit. I'm using a Ubiquiti Dream Machine Special Edition as my router which gives my excellent routing performance compared to a normal ISP-provided router.
My ISP (BT) are charging me about £90 for a 1Gbit/300Mbit connection. This connection is fine, latency is a tad high at times for a supposedly "fiber" link.
I've been pretty lucky that my flat is equipped with Cat 5 cabling in the walls which is accessible via a patch panel in my utility closet. All cables in the wall are connected to a Ubiquiti switch which is mounted onto the wall of the closet.
Other bits
I was getting fed up having to load up grafana on my devices just to have a quick glance to check if all is doing okay so I invested in a refurbished tablet that I've stuck onto the side of my fridge in my living room. This way, I can sit in the couch and glance at various dashboards.
Hardware Specs
london-a
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel i7 4790K |
| vCPUs | 8 |
| Memory | 32 GB |
| GPU | On-board CPU |
| Boot Storage | 1 TB |
| Extra Storage | N/A |
london-b
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| CPU | Threadripper 3970X |
| vCPUs | 64 |
| Memory | 64 GB |
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 980 |
| Boot Storage | 500 GB |
| Extra Storage | 96 TB |
london-c
| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| CPU | ARM Cortex-A72 |
| vCPUs | 4 |
| Memory | 8 GB |
| GPU | On-board CPU |
| Boot Storage | 128 GB |
| Extra Storage | N/A |