Yeah its like old youtube. But naturally, that would happen ever since youtube started paying people to make YT videos full time. It makes sense that there are many people who are primarily youtubers.
@@hentai.locker Those youtubers have their place, they inspire up and coming tech heads and help them learn a lot. Hating people like that is such a strange thing to me.
A GTR, an intense homelab with multiple racks, designs own hardware and PCBs, billet blocks, built his own house, etc etc. Really a man after my own heart, I hope to accomplish the things you have one day.
@@joel9909 The guy in the video was probably very strategic in addition to having the ability to spend 12-14 hours a day doing stuff he didn't want to do for years on end. He's probably also the type of person to get home after a long day at work and use the precious few spare hours he had to work on his own projects instead of relaxing. It's a hard path to get to where he is (unless you know the right people obviously, but that's where the strategic part can help).
Absolutely agree with the point that a CTO should understand and actually be able to work with the technologies they are responsible for. More companies leaders should adapt that mindset.
@@jeffsponaugle6339 I run the exact same philospohy in my cloud company I learn the tech first, i build the tech first and i run the tech first. Once I know all but every little thing about it, then i push the training onto other techs etc the "boss" imo needs to be a true leader, someone you can call and actually get tech support from and expect them to deliver. A lot of these CTOs are just paperwork clowns with no real experience
I agree how can you lead people with not knowing how to fix it yourself. I have worked for CTO that could Not even configure a Firewall correctly and would blame me for his mistake.
I understood nothing of what he was saying but I still kept watching. There's just something so impressive when someone talks about what they're passionate about.
@@weplaywax Tell me more of what you do! I actually need advice of managing large data files for a video production agency. Our files are probably a drop in a bucket compared to what you handle but I wanted to gain more insight on how to best do the managing. How can we connect?
"The Greatest Homelab That's Ever Lived". Thank you for taking the time to make this video, and especially for sharing your advice regarding the drive to learn new things. Super informative and interesting, I'm sure your setup is now the end-goal of tons of people that have seen these videos. As someone that owns a small computer repair business, it's awesome (and very humbling) getting a peek into this corner of the industry and the mentality that drives a successful CTO (and business)!
It's difficult to convey to non-homelab folk the satisfaction I get when i learn how to build and deploy a service for the first time, and then keeping it up. Always great to see how others scratch the homelab itch
Jeff this is so cool man . I have a crap education stopped at 6 grade and fell into electrical work as a career . I’ve worked oilfield for 10 years and got thrown into controls . I would stress out on basic motor controls and compressor systems for process controls on call . So I took home bad or replacement parts and built em at home to learn and understand low voltage controls . Now I want to get certs or somehow get more understanding of automation . That’s my next goal . Anyway thanks for your video !
I know most of the Modern AWS infra by installing it on prem. Swapping tech on small nodes not like keeping them . I also use Ansible I also use most of the stuff he said on small machine 40 threads at most. That being said most of the people nowadays live so high in the abstraction that I genuinely love to see a fellow explorer . It's so rare people to have passion to go as deep as this guy. Appreciate you dude .
This is fascinating. I got started with my own homelab journey last year with small mini PCs and 3 HDDs with similar motivations (having an environment to learn and tinker without having to pay $$ for cloud instances). Thanks for the tour and these insights!
@@VinnyLogz Well he could use it for storage, try to do a RAID System. Another use would be for VMs, to have a dozen VMs for different testing can be useful. He can also just use it to test new hardware he gets to see if they work.
If engineering was a person it would be this gentleman. I'm pretty sure there is nothing this man can not learn and execute as long as there is a source material and an inner calling from him.
When I renovated my house (basically rebuilt) I wired the whole place up with Cat5e for fax machines thinking I'd be future-proofed for the rest of my life. I now have 200+ wired devices in the house with 30+ access points. Only managed to get fiber to a few rooms without ripping out the walls. This build is my dream for a new house.
Amazing homelab setup and much more feasible when doing new construction but not impossible to retrofit if you are determined. Keep in mind that Jeff more than likely had several homelabs over the years that culminated to this state so don't get down on yourself (myself included!) if your homelab doesn't resemble his end product. Jeff - incredible work and thank you for showing us your setup, truly appreciate it!
And I thought I was nutz! Good to see there are other crazy people in this world, I was feeling a little "alone" before seeing this! Awesome Jeff, just bloody awesome.
Your videos are great. I appreciate these videos. Pls keep it up. Even if your are uploading a 10 to 20 minutes video every month or two. You and your projects are very inspiring. Greetings from Germany
For many years I worked as a rack Builder. It was my hobby and job. Hundreds of cabinets, millions of meters of cables, cable markers, cage nuts, a lot of expensive equipment, some worth as much as a small house.
So happy you posted again and loved the full explanation and tour. As someone starting out, I would love to hear what you'd do if you were in a position to begin from scratch (what you'd start with, what has been your favourite and most interesting parts, etc...)
This is seriously impressive. I'm more impressed with the short comments about your leadership mentality - being able to do the things that you manage. There's something really positive to be said for a leader that isn't going to ask you to do something that they haven't done themself.
If you don't already have a video on it, I would be super interested in how you power things up and down programmatically based on job requirements. I think power draw is a big barrier for a lot of people getting into homelabbing and that could help a lot!
Hey there! Just wanted to drop by and say how blown away I am by your homelab setup. Seriously, it's like walking into a tech wonderland. The way you've organized everything and the sheer amount of gear you've got running smoothly is truly impressive. You've created a tech sanctuary that's both envy-inducing and inspiring. Keep up the amazing work!👍👍😃
That's great, you are really using the variety and flexibility of the lab. Man, I've had some crappy ctos in the past that are basically sysadmin 3s 15 years ago, that have just been there a long time and fell into it.
As a chief arch and CTO myself, its so cool to see someone else doing a lot of the same things I'm doing for my home lab, power management, etc. Couldn't agree with you more on the need for a tech leader to know the tech they are approving or recommending. This channel as well as Dave Plummer are new channels I've found that go into this.
Very cool. Thanks for the follow-on video and details. Homelabs are one of the best ways to learn safely, to work though a problem, to test things, before applying what has been learnt to production environments. Most companies seem to lack corporate test labs.
ok, he has the money and he likes to burn them. i am glad for him. i am Software Engineer and I.T. / Networks guy for more than 20 years now. there is absolutely!!! not a need for what he has done BUT! the one and only reason he did it was passion, the fact that he had the money.... and see if he could do it. that's it. i am seriously glad that you have achieve your dream man. and respect for the fact that you mentioned that you need to have a "deep understanding of the things you are using in your daily job in order to get to a lower and lower level and become better". you ACTUALLY get it. you love your job and what you are doing. you clearly get paid enough money for your skills, to have a good life and be able to invest to your passion. i hope that one day i will manage to reach your level even if that's something hard to achieve in Greece :)
Your setup makes me wish I was a kid again so I could say "When I grow up I want a setup just like that!". I really liked the part about always learning and being capable in the things you are overseeing.
I have no idea of half the stuff you are talking about but I am so invested and can watch your videos to the end. Keep them coming and I will keep on learning 😅
I love the home lab and home setup. I too have a home server room but not as futuristic as yours. I constantly get asked why I have this in my home as well and to answer everyone I say it is a amazing way to learn and experiment and cope with my day to day Hunger for knowledge. the closest thing I can use as an example would be a person that really loves cars. They may own multiple or just one but on any given day that car is always takes care of and is something they take great pride in. Its even better when you enjoy something so much it lives with you even after you come home from the same type of work. At the end of the day when you work in the crazy tech industry its nice to come home to something you built yourself and you know works, No politics involved in home labs! keep up the great work.
I cannot second enough what you mention about understanding how the technology works from a base level up to, well, endless levels really, because technology is about always continuing to learn and improve. Doing things, building things, experimenting with things, and breaking things is how a true understanding can be achieved at every level, in my opinion as well, because of the inherent interaction that’s had at every level in the process. Understanding gives the freedom to redesign, modify, and configure things to the limit of your creativity, really, and I believe that is a true “expert” in a certain technology. I do not, and have never memorized anything about the technology I interact with, I get my hands on it, disassemble it, and do research to the end of understanding it. I’ve found that the brain, when it consciously understands how something functions at all levels, does not struggle to remember everything necessary to interact with it. And allows true creative interaction with it. It gives the freedom to see what things could possibly be, and is conducive to the creative implementation of something that is believed could possibly be. But it can all only possibly be from a deeply rooted understanding throughout every level up to the level that you are continuing to creatively learn to do, and make new things, and often times to make existing things work unconventionally in a way that makes something new. That is how all new things come to be a reality. By building upon the layers of understanding of the existing, and understanding is the only basis that allows that to be done. For me, at least. I hate memorizing steps and anything I don’t need to, because I can grow and create faster and worlds more efficiently if I just understand what I’m doing, and what I would like to do with it. Awesome home lab! I’d like to understand and do enough projects and learn enough to have my own version of something like that eventually. I’ll just keep doing things, and learning how things work. Cheers
Excellent, you have reproduced your own workshop at home which would also be educational is the step-by-step tutorials section for future trainees and the prerequisites when setting up simplified presentation/popularization workshops for the most novice . Good luck, excellent job, interesting ❤
My greatest respect for sharing the pov that CTO should actually be able to do the technology they are responsible for. This is a requirement for building a successful company
Ok, not only does he have inspiring technical know how and a brilliant approach to being a CTO, he applies those to improve healthcare globally with surescript. Legendary hero.
OK...that explains the mini Data Center you build.... Great work! Would like to see the stuff you doing with Video and AI... Then there's also a lot of other things...so please keep sharing.
Very nice setup ! I have a similar setup in my home . I get the same question ALL the time.. People look at me with like I have ten heads when they see I have a data center in my basement . My team built 18 data centers for a global telecom back in the early 2000 and so having my own DC makes me feel very comfortable.. I use my clusters for a lot of study and some docker applications that run some of my stuff .. my rack mount pi cluster is still in progress but very excited to have ..
Excellent! It is something that is both fun to build but also fun to operate..of course I wonder if at some point I move what will the next person do with it!
I just want to say that you are such a cool guy, I am not even interested in homelabs, or at least not that data center you have, but you are really really cool guy doing what he loves without trying to be some "viral" youtube star, but just sharing some of your passions.
Dang 7 kilowatts...my home lab pulls 500 watts peak and I thought that was a lot. I've got a 145 TB NAS and 3 systems running Proxmox VE. I'm a devops engineer, so I've got a kubernetes cluster that is fully automated by packer, terraform, and gitlab. Two commands can destroy and rebuild the cluster within a matter of minutes, so I can appreciate the work you've put into this. Awesome setup!
I agree so much on all these "I need to understand what manages" and "Continue learning" parts, I have the exact same mindset so it's quite inspiring to see the success it seems to have had for you brought, I hope to follow a similar path to you Have fun with that modest "keep it simple" homelab ;)
What’s nice about the homelab is the freedom to store, organize and edit as many of your TH-cam videos as you want without worrying about storage space.
8:45 - Hey fellow Portlander. Yeah, having that deep understanding is so critical when you gotta dive in and address something at the drop of a hat. It’s also great for just iteratively improving on stuff. And 💯% with you on just diving in and trying it out. Getting hands on is a fantastic way to not only learn but gain that deep understanding that’s so incredibly useful later on.
Very cool setup. Hoping to do something similar if I ever get my house built. Also will put a heat pump water heater in there to recover some of that excess heat, hehe. Your policy of dogfooding, even at home, is a great policy for a CTO.
Brilliant stuff. If i had the cash and the time I've love to build a lab similar to that. Whomever you work for is lucky to have someone like you, that's for sure.
Do you give guided tours? I completely agree with your views about how CTOs should know the tech - It's called mechanical sympathy. In my experience, CTOs have been bureaucrats that know very little and are not interested/passionate about the tech. As a result, they make terrible decisions and they really undervalue their top level engineers who do make the effort to learn in their own time. Respect from Australia.
Yea, and the funny thing is it does not that that much extra effort to learn a little bit more of the technology. Often you have a fantastic team of experts working for you that you can learn from, so it is a puzzle that so many don't take advantage of it.
Be our mentor, teach us your ways, share your experiences and knowledge you gained by the steps that brought you to this point, your journey... do realise to us noobs you sound extraordinary and amazing, WE WANT TO BE LIKE YOU 🤩🏆
3kw continious load would set me back 766€ (820 USD) each month in electricity. Thats about as much as my homserver cost me to build. Your Homelab looks impressive!
i think when you are able to buy and build such a lab, just because you can, you got other problems. :D and we europeans probably pay twice the amount for energy.
@@Alexander20091988 thats true i guess. I'm from germany where electricity prices have been between $0.30 and $0.70 per kwh. In the states the average from 2023 is $0.18. That at least makes solar worth a lot more here.
holy cow... a whole datacenter just to "learn" ^^ and here i am... needed 1,5 years of saving money to be able to afford a 4060. so jealous. reminds me of my project, many many years ago, to build my own touchscreen-wireless-device to control my own programed videoplayer. one of my first things i build on my own and i was so proud... many years later, less currency, all gone :x im happy for people who can do what they dream of without thinking about currency. well done sir, well done.
Jeff, what a fascinating and unique homelab you’ve built. If you’re willing to, I’d love hear more about the power and cooling setup you put in place and any of the interesting challenges you had to tackle. Whatever you choose to talk about next, I’ve subscribed and look forward to watching.
Backup guy here. If you're going to have that much gear & storage in your house, you might as well run a daily incremental along with a weekly full, monthly, etc. If you wait a week in-between backups, you could create and delete files in-between backups and never get them backed-up, etc. Sounds like you have multiple copies of the backups, which is good. Are you doing offsite copies as well?
Finally, a tech guy that does TH-cam instead of a TH-camr that does tech stuff.
This. I HATE TH-camRS
Yeah its like old youtube. But naturally, that would happen ever since youtube started paying people to make YT videos full time. It makes sense that there are many people who are primarily youtubers.
I am incredibly impressed
brain rot everywhere
@@hentai.locker Those youtubers have their place, they inspire up and coming tech heads and help them learn a lot. Hating people like that is such a strange thing to me.
A GTR, an intense homelab with multiple racks, designs own hardware and PCBs, billet blocks, built his own house, etc etc. Really a man after my own heart, I hope to accomplish the things you have one day.
I was thinking the same, what an inspiration!
Lord when do I get to this stage, I'm already 30 and haven't landed an entry level position jeez 🤣🤣
I tought exactly same thing and he also have kids and a wife: plus points
@@joel9909 The guy in the video was probably very strategic in addition to having the ability to spend 12-14 hours a day doing stuff he didn't want to do for years on end. He's probably also the type of person to get home after a long day at work and use the precious few spare hours he had to work on his own projects instead of relaxing. It's a hard path to get to where he is (unless you know the right people obviously, but that's where the strategic part can help).
Same man. I hope I can accomplish 5% of what this guy has accomplished. Sigh.
When Nerd passion and a healthy bank balance combine.
Good on you for building it.
Absolutely agree with the point that a CTO should understand and actually be able to work with the technologies they are responsible for. More companies leaders should adapt that mindset.
Yes, it is a funny thing that in some companies the CTO is really a business process person.. The T is for technology!
@@jeffsponaugle6339 I run the exact same philospohy in my cloud company
I learn the tech first, i build the tech first and i run the tech first. Once I know all but every little thing about it, then i push the training onto other techs etc
the "boss" imo needs to be a true leader, someone you can call and actually get tech support from and expect them to deliver. A lot of these CTOs are just paperwork clowns with no real experience
I agree how can you lead people with not knowing how to fix it yourself. I have worked for CTO that could Not even configure a Firewall correctly and would blame me for his mistake.
Tyrell Wellick
@@_IMNNO Man that was a good show.
GOAT activity. Do not stop youtube. We need you
The r/homelab legend in the flesh
More like r/homedatacenter
I understood nothing of what he was saying but I still kept watching. There's just something so impressive when someone talks about what they're passionate about.
@@weplaywax Tell me more of what you do! I actually need advice of managing large data files for a video production agency. Our files are probably a drop in a bucket compared to what you handle but I wanted to gain more insight on how to best do the managing. How can we connect?
Homelab endgame is having it big enough you get to test out different massive power, cooling, and cabling solutions!
And don't forget just small enough that your wife thinks of it more like a wine closet, less like another car.
@@jeffsponaugle6339 *wine cellar.
@@jeffsponaugle6339 😂😂
@@jeffsponaugle6339 well that doesn't sound like your case 😂
"The Greatest Homelab That's Ever Lived". Thank you for taking the time to make this video, and especially for sharing your advice regarding the drive to learn new things. Super informative and interesting, I'm sure your setup is now the end-goal of tons of people that have seen these videos. As someone that owns a small computer repair business, it's awesome (and very humbling) getting a peek into this corner of the industry and the mentality that drives a successful CTO (and business)!
collab pls hahah
Hahaha lol, I see what you did there on the top
It's difficult to convey to non-homelab folk the satisfaction I get when i learn how to build and deploy a service for the first time, and then keeping it up. Always great to see how others scratch the homelab itch
A CTO that has technical chops, gosh that is refreshing!
Jeff this is so cool man . I have a crap education stopped at 6 grade and fell into electrical work as a career . I’ve worked oilfield for 10 years and got thrown into controls . I would stress out on basic motor controls and compressor systems for process controls on call . So I took home bad or replacement parts and built em at home to learn and understand low voltage controls . Now I want to get certs or somehow get more understanding of automation . That’s my next goal . Anyway thanks for your video !
I know most of the Modern AWS infra by installing it on prem. Swapping tech on small nodes not like keeping them . I also use Ansible I also use most of the stuff he said on small machine 40 threads at most. That being said most of the people nowadays live so high in the abstraction that I genuinely love to see a fellow explorer . It's so rare people to have passion to go as deep as this guy. Appreciate you dude .
This is fascinating. I got started with my own homelab journey last year with small mini PCs and 3 HDDs with similar motivations (having an environment to learn and tinker without having to pay $$ for cloud instances). Thanks for the tour and these insights!
And what do you do with it at home? Lol
@@VinnyLogz
Well he could use it for storage, try to do a RAID System.
Another use would be for VMs, to have a dozen VMs for different testing can be useful.
He can also just use it to test new hardware he gets to see if they work.
My jaw dropped when I saw your tour of your "homelab"...very impressive stuff sir. I dream of being this knowledgeable when I am your age
Just a man who likes to learn and tinker and has the money to afford it. Respect
If engineering was a person it would be this gentleman. I'm pretty sure there is nothing this man can not learn and execute as long as there is a source material and an inner calling from him.
When I renovated my house (basically rebuilt) I wired the whole place up with Cat5e for fax machines thinking I'd be future-proofed for the rest of my life. I now have 200+ wired devices in the house with 30+ access points. Only managed to get fiber to a few rooms without ripping out the walls. This build is my dream for a new house.
Amazing homelab setup and much more feasible when doing new construction but not impossible to retrofit if you are determined. Keep in mind that Jeff more than likely had several homelabs over the years that culminated to this state so don't get down on yourself (myself included!) if your homelab doesn't resemble his end product. Jeff - incredible work and thank you for showing us your setup, truly appreciate it!
8:12 Mad respect, this content makes me reconnect with an urge to build stuff and try things.
Sir . Take a bow ! The only tech channel that’s worth subscribing to!
And I thought I was nutz! Good to see there are other crazy people in this world, I was feeling a little "alone" before seeing this! Awesome Jeff, just bloody awesome.
Your videos are great. I appreciate these videos. Pls keep it up. Even if your are uploading a 10 to 20 minutes video every month or two. You and your projects are very inspiring. Greetings from Germany
For many years I worked as a rack Builder. It was my hobby and job. Hundreds of cabinets, millions of meters of cables, cable markers, cage nuts, a lot of expensive equipment, some worth as much as a small house.
Your homelab - more like a datacenter tbh - is beyond awesome and this video explains a lot. Nice!
But I'm more curious about the GTR now LMAO
You have no ideo. Jeff doesn't do small.
@@GravTsport oh for sure, color me jealous 😆
these people cannot seem to get it
So happy you posted again and loved the full explanation and tour. As someone starting out, I would love to hear what you'd do if you were in a position to begin from scratch (what you'd start with, what has been your favourite and most interesting parts, etc...)
This is seriously impressive. I'm more impressed with the short comments about your leadership mentality - being able to do the things that you manage. There's something really positive to be said for a leader that isn't going to ask you to do something that they haven't done themself.
If you don't already have a video on it, I would be super interested in how you power things up and down programmatically based on job requirements.
I think power draw is a big barrier for a lot of people getting into homelabbing and that could help a lot!
Hey there! Just wanted to drop by and say how blown away I am by your homelab setup. Seriously, it's like walking into a tech wonderland. The way you've organized everything and the sheer amount of gear you've got running smoothly is truly impressive. You've created a tech sanctuary that's both envy-inducing and inspiring. Keep up the amazing work!👍👍😃
That's great, you are really using the variety and flexibility of the lab.
Man, I've had some crappy ctos in the past that are basically sysadmin 3s 15 years ago, that have just been there a long time and fell into it.
As a chief arch and CTO myself, its so cool to see someone else doing a lot of the same things I'm doing for my home lab, power management, etc. Couldn't agree with you more on the need for a tech leader to know the tech they are approving or recommending. This channel as well as Dave Plummer are new channels I've found that go into this.
Very cool. Thanks for the follow-on video and details. Homelabs are one of the best ways to learn safely, to work though a problem, to test things, before applying what has been learnt to production environments. Most companies seem to lack corporate test labs.
ok, he has the money and he likes to burn them. i am glad for him. i am Software Engineer and I.T. / Networks guy for more than 20 years now. there is absolutely!!! not a need for what he has done BUT! the one and only reason he did it was passion, the fact that he had the money.... and see if he could do it. that's it.
i am seriously glad that you have achieve your dream man. and respect for the fact that you mentioned that you need to have a "deep understanding of the things you are using in your daily job in order to get to a lower and lower level and become better". you ACTUALLY get it. you love your job and what you are doing. you clearly get paid enough money for your skills, to have a good life and be able to invest to your passion.
i hope that one day i will manage to reach your level even if that's something hard to achieve in Greece :)
Your setup makes me wish I was a kid again so I could say "When I grow up I want a setup just like that!". I really liked the part about always learning and being capable in the things you are overseeing.
Refreshing to see a CTO stay engaged in evolving technology.
I have no idea of half the stuff you are talking about but I am so invested and can watch your videos to the end. Keep them coming and I will keep on learning 😅
I am in absolute love with this video. Would love to see more from you.
I saw your "homelab" on reddit, if I remember correctly. It's absolute one of my favourite one. Thank you for the video!
I love the home lab and home setup. I too have a home server room but not as futuristic as yours. I constantly get asked why I have this in my home as well and to answer everyone I say it is a amazing way to learn and experiment and cope with my day to day Hunger for knowledge. the closest thing I can use as an example would be a person that really loves cars. They may own multiple or just one but on any given day that car is always takes care of and is something they take great pride in. Its even better when you enjoy something so much it lives with you even after you come home from the same type of work. At the end of the day when you work in the crazy tech industry its nice to come home to something you built yourself and you know works, No politics involved in home labs! keep up the great work.
I cannot second enough what you mention about understanding how the technology works from a base level up to, well, endless levels really, because technology is about always continuing to learn and improve. Doing things, building things, experimenting with things, and breaking things is how a true understanding can be achieved at every level, in my opinion as well, because of the inherent interaction that’s had at every level in the process.
Understanding gives the freedom to redesign, modify, and configure things to the limit of your creativity, really, and I believe that is a true “expert” in a certain technology.
I do not, and have never memorized anything about the technology I interact with, I get my hands on it, disassemble it, and do research to the end of understanding it. I’ve found that the brain, when it consciously understands how something functions at all levels, does not struggle to remember everything necessary to interact with it. And allows true creative interaction with it. It gives the freedom to see what things could possibly be, and is conducive to the creative implementation of something that is believed could possibly be.
But it can all only possibly be from a deeply rooted understanding throughout every level up to the level that you are continuing to creatively learn to do, and make new things, and often times to make existing things work unconventionally in a way that makes something new. That is how all new things come to be a reality. By building upon the layers of understanding of the existing, and understanding is the only basis that allows that to be done.
For me, at least. I hate memorizing steps and anything I don’t need to, because I can grow and create faster and worlds more efficiently if I just understand what I’m doing, and what I would like to do with it.
Awesome home lab! I’d like to understand and do enough projects and learn enough to have my own version of something like that eventually. I’ll just keep doing things, and learning how things work. Cheers
Hey Jeff,
You sound like a great boss! Really enjoyed this Homelab tour.
Have a great day,
Tom
I think I just found the ultimate inspiration for my dream home/lab/office/workshop/life
As much as I am impressed with the hardware, I am more impressed by the things you do with them.
Excellent, you have reproduced your own workshop at home which would also be educational is the step-by-step tutorials section for future trainees and the prerequisites when setting up simplified presentation/popularization workshops for the most novice . Good luck, excellent job, interesting ❤
Wait, he has a day job!? This is his HOBBY!? Respect.
I hope to have a homelab like this some day. Your setup is a bucket list goal.
My greatest respect for sharing the pov that CTO should actually be able to do the technology they are responsible for. This is a requirement for building a successful company
Very professional ! I bet this the dream of every IT guy. thank you Jeff for sharing.
You are an incredible inspiration sir. Thank you
I have no idea what you just said, but I'm impressed
Ok, not only does he have inspiring technical know how and a brilliant approach to being a CTO, he applies those to improve healthcare globally with surescript. Legendary hero.
Improving healthcare? Did I miss something in the video?
@@l0gic23 It's what his day job is
@@_BonsaiBen oh, CTO for a healthcare company?
Haha SureScript is probably that company. 😅 Thanks.
My dream is to build a homelab comparable. You are an inspiration
OK...that explains the mini Data Center you build....
Great work! Would like to see the stuff you doing with Video and AI...
Then there's also a lot of other things...so please keep sharing.
Very nice setup ! I have a similar setup in my home . I get the same question ALL the time.. People look at me with like I have ten heads when they see I have a data center in my basement . My team built 18 data centers for a global telecom back in the early 2000 and so having my own DC makes me feel very comfortable.. I use my clusters for a lot of study and some docker applications that run some of my stuff .. my rack mount pi cluster is still in progress but very excited to have ..
Excellent! It is something that is both fun to build but also fun to operate..of course I wonder if at some point I move what will the next person do with it!
@@jeffsponaugle6339 I wonder if there is any HAM radio guys of old that are jealous of the two of you here. 😁😉
Thanks for the follow up, I was wondering what all of those servers were doing. Linus Tech Tips needs to meet this guy!!
Bloody awesome mate, your lab is what i want mine to be one day, one day....
I just want to say that you are such a cool guy, I am not even interested in homelabs, or at least not that data center you have, but you are really really cool guy doing what he loves without trying to be some "viral" youtube star, but just sharing some of your passions.
I absoultely LOVE that you are doing all this!
This is the kind of person I would want as a CTO.
Dang 7 kilowatts...my home lab pulls 500 watts peak and I thought that was a lot. I've got a 145 TB NAS and 3 systems running Proxmox VE. I'm a devops engineer, so I've got a kubernetes cluster that is fully automated by packer, terraform, and gitlab. Two commands can destroy and rebuild the cluster within a matter of minutes, so I can appreciate the work you've put into this. Awesome setup!
Nice! doing all of that is 500 watts is fantastic. There are some really good micro-homelabs using low power but still doing cool stuff.
@@jeffsponaugle6339 Yeah using desktop hardware instead of server hardware really helps keep costs down haha
I agree so much on all these "I need to understand what manages" and "Continue learning" parts, I have the exact same mindset so it's quite inspiring to see the success it seems to have had for you brought, I hope to follow a similar path to you
Have fun with that modest "keep it simple" homelab ;)
Dude you are exactly like me just about 1000 times farther down the road. Amazing Job and setup!
incredible video and home lab
What’s nice about the homelab is the freedom to store, organize and edit as many of your TH-cam videos as you want without worrying about storage space.
Appreciate the explanation, learning and experimenting and move up next level. It keeps me mentally fit after my retirement. Greetings from Holland.
I'm happy that TH-cam recommended me your homelab video and I checked out this one!
Yours is basically my dream homelab!
I am working in tech for quite some time and people like Jeff are an inspiration! Love the content :)
8:45 - Hey fellow Portlander. Yeah, having that deep understanding is so critical when you gotta dive in and address something at the drop of a hat. It’s also great for just iteratively improving on stuff. And 💯% with you on just diving in and trying it out. Getting hands on is a fantastic way to not only learn but gain that deep understanding that’s so incredibly useful later on.
Very cool setup. Hoping to do something similar if I ever get my house built. Also will put a heat pump water heater in there to recover some of that excess heat, hehe. Your policy of dogfooding, even at home, is a great policy for a CTO.
Nice followup and deep dive of the whole shebang.
Very informational and inspirational.
Dude, you're like.....smart and stuff
Brilliant stuff. If i had the cash and the time I've love to build a lab similar to that. Whomever you work for is lucky to have someone like you, that's for sure.
Hats down Sir. This is remarkable indeed!
youre a genius... the things youre saying the terms.. im googling everything.. so cool.
Do you give guided tours?
I completely agree with your views about how CTOs should know the tech - It's called mechanical sympathy. In my experience, CTOs have been bureaucrats that know very little and are not interested/passionate about the tech. As a result, they make terrible decisions and they really undervalue their top level engineers who do make the effort to learn in their own time.
Respect from Australia.
Yea, and the funny thing is it does not that that much extra effort to learn a little bit more of the technology. Often you have a fantastic team of experts working for you that you can learn from, so it is a puzzle that so many don't take advantage of it.
This was inspirational, ordering a set of Raspberry Pi's to start my home lab.
Be our mentor, teach us your ways, share your experiences and knowledge you gained by the steps that brought you to this point, your journey... do realise to us noobs you sound extraordinary and amazing, WE WANT TO BE LIKE YOU 🤩🏆
You are my new role model. Amazing.
ah, yes, a fellow Trekkie 🖖 - also, your lab is dope! and listening to you explain is awesome, too
I would love to see more of this kind of videos !
Only problem, is I cannot thumbs up this twice. Thanks for sharing this. Amazing!
Dude, you're like a livig character from a Neal Stepehenson's novel. This is great stuff.
3kw continious load would set me back 766€ (820 USD) each month in electricity. Thats about as much as my homserver cost me to build. Your Homelab looks impressive!
i think when you are able to buy and build such a lab, just because you can, you got other problems. :D
and we europeans probably pay twice the amount for energy.
@@Alexander20091988 thats true i guess. I'm from germany where electricity prices have been between $0.30 and $0.70 per kwh. In the states the average from 2023 is $0.18.
That at least makes solar worth a lot more here.
I love this! My goal is to get to this level of home lab one of these days!
holy cow... a whole datacenter just to "learn" ^^ and here i am... needed 1,5 years of saving money to be able to afford a 4060. so jealous. reminds me of my project, many many years ago, to build my own touchscreen-wireless-device to control my own programed videoplayer. one of my first things i build on my own and i was so proud... many years later, less currency, all gone :x im happy for people who can do what they dream of without thinking about currency.
well done sir, well done.
Awesome! Thank you for sharing, please keep uploading!! :)
Jeff, what a fascinating and unique homelab you’ve built. If you’re willing to, I’d love hear more about the power and cooling setup you put in place and any of the interesting challenges you had to tackle. Whatever you choose to talk about next, I’ve subscribed and look forward to watching.
You are insane. I love it
Amazing lab and I love your why.
you are a legend, hope i can get to the point one day where im able to do these sort of things for fun at this scale and afford it.
Holy shit, this guy is smart. Not just smart, but he has a lot of "mental energy" to handle his day job, family, and "hobby".
Absolute guru level stuff, fascinating to listen.
You are an inspiration and amazing. Tahnk you for sharing your experience.
Backup guy here. If you're going to have that much gear & storage in your house, you might as well run a daily incremental along with a weekly full, monthly, etc. If you wait a week in-between backups, you could create and delete files in-between backups and never get them backed-up, etc. Sounds like you have multiple copies of the backups, which is good. Are you doing offsite copies as well?
You have created something amazing :) I will be happy to hear more about your homelab or other interesting solutions you have implemented.
glad you’re uploading again. I was here originally for the billet subi build but this is also interesting.
This is amazing!
I see a legit cto tech guy on TH-cam. I follow. I am a simple guy
Mister, I admire you, props to you for being this dedicated to your homelab. Absolutely amazing and astonishing
Ultimate badass. You inspired me to build up my home lab. Give us more, please!