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It’s wise if you draw/sketch out a home network diagram or use network design software. When selecting your location, consider the coolest area of the room/space, avoid direct sunlight and consider reserving space for future expansion. I have laptops, a desktop, a server, and other devices in my office, so that this location will require shorter cable runs. Cons: A Bug’s Life in your lab, excess heat (if no AC), dust, could require longer cables, or gets wrecked when parking the car.įor my lab, I’m going to build it out in my home office.Pros: Less noise in the house, completely out of sight, wife won’t even notice.Cons: can get hot depending on where you live, roof leaks, humidity/condensation, and creepy at night.Cons: don’t have a basement, flooding, spiders, or no access when injured.Pros: Usually cooler temps, and volunteering to do laundry (maybe con?).

Cons: Poor ventilation (excess heat), lack of space, and one less closet = unhappy wife.Pros: Easily accessible, stealthy, and you get to say: “Look at what I have hiding in my closet.”.Cons: divorce, foot traffic, could get damaged, or damaged during the divorce.

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Pros: Usually cool, lots of space/setup options, blinky-blinky sci-fi movie nights, and counts as family time.

Cons: no home office or you already spend too much time in your home office.

Pros: Proximity to work area/desk/devices, fewer cable runs, and you can watch lights flash all day.

Cons I’ve compiled to get us thinking about all the possible home lab locations. These include room temperature and ventilation, workable space around your equipment, ease and distance of network cable runs, foot traffic, 24-hour ease of access, power, noise levels from your home lab, and more. The choice between the home office, living room, closet, attic, basement, or garage depends on a range of important variables. Location is critical for several reasons. I’ll try my best to get you to the end of this article. It’s all about location! Please excuse the lack of originality – I’m a sysadmin, not a writer. Home lab location, it’s all about location. What I’m trying to say is, we need storage space, physical storage space, for our new home lab. Where do we begin? Not to sound cliché, but let’s start from the ground up, or wall forward. So, if you have ever been interested in building a home lab or if you already have one, then let’s mingle, share and dabble together. Of course, over the years, I’ve had equipment lying around, but that stops today. In light of this fact, I wanted to share this journey with you, starting with the hardware selection process for my home lab. In fact, I think my exact words were, “Yves, I see your home lab, and I’ll raise you mine.” As always, I’m certain there’s a lot more to learn through discussion. May we inspire each other to great home labsĪs I told Yves, our chat had me revisiting the idea. I will also be using my home lab for remote backups, network monitoring and alerting of remote servers, and wired UAP APs, among other things. I’m creating a customized network and server home lab to fill those areas where I would like to become more familiar. To date, I host my test labs on servers in North America and Europe. This risk is the reason why we build ourselves a sandbox environment to dabble, test, and fail in, all from the comfort of our own homes. Shush… it’s OK, I know, I know, you didn’t think that one command would take everything offline. As you know, trying out new things on production equipment never ends well.

Most of you reading this article are techies and sysadmins. In general, a lab is a place where you can safely perform experiments. Of course, all the while seeking success, but you got that already. But seriously, I would like to fail a lot more, and a home lab will create endless opportunities for me to fail. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” I consider myself an expert at failure. Think of a home lab as a place where you can fail in the privacy of your own home. My current Home lab in a 12u rack as of May 2020 Most of which he does via his very capable home lab. We sat in his home office, where he told me a bit about his current projects, as well as his dabbling with IPv6, web hosting, mail, BGP4, among other things. He’s a champion of the internet and technological developments in Antigua & Barbuda. Yves left C&W shortly before I started there in 2004. He was an Engineer with Cable & Wireless for 20 years (until 2003). Last week, after a short trip to Antigua, I had a brief meeting with a tech friend of mine, Yves Ephraim.

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These days, we are more settled my wife has completed her studies, now works full time, and my full-time job remains remote, via a home office supporting Linux servers and hosting them.

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