I REALLY need to do my cellar out - Look at this!

OK then...

In this country the local plod would probably smash the door down looking for all the pot plants, based on the power usage and heat generated.

Out of interest, what H&S and fire provisions have you made???

May I suggest informing your energy supplier of the installation, because the extra increase in consumption will flag up an anomaly on their computer system.

Out of interest, what H&S and fire provisions have you made???

May I suggest informing your energy supplier of the installation, because the extra increase in consumption will flag up an anomaly on their computer system.

That is the OP's setup!???!

Out of interest, what H&S and fire provisions have you made???

May I suggest informing your energy supplier of the installation, because the extra increase in consumption will flag up an anomaly on their computer system.

I wouldn't be running something of that scale & talking to the person who runs them his bill is only another $40~ a month. Why would I need to inform my energy supplier?

Mmmmm sweet geekness

A lot of kit, a lot of noise, a lot of wires. BUT where do all of the multi outlet sockets feed from? A single domestic ring main or a proper 3 phase circuit? I suppose we all have to have a hobby

Check out his website, which funnily enough he hosts

www.homedatacenterproject.com

Those crazy yanks canadians Cheap space , power and good comm's. I did look at a leased line, space in the garage, ups set up for brisk at one point, that v the cost of a qtr/half rack. Not much in it, then that night we had a proper power cut for a few hours. Tore the paper notes up, plan abandoned, no way swmbo would swing for a genny in the garden

I am slowly gathering bits for the garage for a staging/development zone. But to be honest with the leaps in processing power, I only need two good servers to virtualise almost any combination of setups I might encounter.

It's the noise and dust thats the problem, heat, most servers are actually quite heat tolerant, certainly the newer generations. My old Mac(06) throws out more heat than a new 1u server with more resource, i.e. cores & ram.

Those crazy yanks canadians Cheap space , power and good comm's. I did look at a leased line, space in the garage, ups set up for brisk at one point, that v the cost of a qtr/half rack. Not much in it, then that night we had a proper power cut for a few hours. Tore the paper notes up, plan abandoned, no way swmbo would swing for a genny in the garden

I am slowly gathering bits for the garage for a staging/development zone. But to be honest with the leaps in processing power, I only need two good servers to virtualise almost any combination of setups I might encounter.

It's the noise and dust thats the problem, heat, most servers are actually quite heat tolerant, certainly the newer generations. My old Mac(06) throws out more heat than a new 1u server with more resource, i.e. cores & ram.

I wouldn't do what they are doing which is offering a service, you are right the servers are not in the right atmosphere. For Dev purposes I think having these are brilliant, its not only that you save on your heating bills

See the link

http://www.homedatacenterproject.com/microsoft-suggests-heating-your-home-with-data-furnaces/

We were thinking of a self-build house at one point and I was plotting a small rack cabinet for a gigabit network. Didn't come to fruition. Wifi isn't nearly as satisfying as running some copper

We were thinking of a self-build house at one point and I was plotting a small rack cabinet for a gigabit network. Didn't come to fruition. Wifi isn't nearly as satisfying as running some copper

I will second that!

Geek-tastic. I get my server fiddling fix at work - the last thing I'd want to do is come home to it as well!

Geek-tastic. I get my server fiddling fix at work - the last thing I'd want to do is come home to it as well!

Same here but it would be nice to have my own setup to do whatever I want with it.

Pretty cool and fair play.. but i have to ask why!?

I wouldn't host anything even remotely important on that stuff. Far far too many points of failure! That AC unit is laughable.

Pretty cool and fair play.. but i have to ask why!?

I wouldn't host anything even remotely important on that stuff. Far far too many points of failure! That AC unit is laughable.

I manage a massive H323, SIP Video network that has numerous customers on board and in doing so I need to make sure the company I work for are always on the top of their game. I am constantly running dev platforms at work however it would be nice to have the processing power at home to do this. Its ok saying well run a VM workstation however the programs required for all this to work is hardware intensive.

Cisco VCS(E) for example needs 8GB Minimum

A Codian MCU cant be virtualized as it requires DSP Chips so it comes as a 2u box.

Yeah I know I can use works resources whilst at home by using VPN however it would be nice to have my own system, maybe a small video network of my own!

Anyways enough of me ranting on