It’s not 5x capable, is my point.

About 10 of those VMs are running a single docker image. It runs great but I know better now.

opnsense
home assistant
neolink
NextCloud
Pihole
Frigate
Omada controller
Photoprism
Wireguard server node
Jellyfin
Transmission-daemon
Audiobookshelf
Plex
Arr stack
Caddy
Librespeed
Invidious
Openspeedtest
OpenMediaVault
VaultWarden
Paperless-ngx
Rustdesk
Proxmox Backup Server
3 or 4 desktop images to mess around with

My 7700x is 5 times that wattage. Granted, it gas 128gb, a380, 4 hdd, 2 SSD, 40gb nic, tpu, and 25 VMs running on it.

The lesson here is that I’ve way over-spec’d my machine.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yqX3C8

$650 for the box leaves you $350 for drives and a 10Gb NIC. I’ve been using serverpartdeals refub drives with good results. They’re ~$10/tb.

I think the N100 type CPUs are limited on PCIe lanes. You end up with less nvme, less sata, and usually no slots.

You can find x570 am4 boards for less than $100 now. Two nvme, 8 sata, 2 big slots and 2 small.

But all of that flexibility and expandability is going to cost you in power. My 7700x w/A380, 3 hdd is 125 watts 24/7. $10 a month on my power bill. I think those n100 mini PCs only have a 35w brick and idle at less than 15w.

I’ve got 4 Omada APs and a virtual controller. There was a bug I experienced where a Google home mini could initiate a broadcast storm. TP-Link got me in touch with engineers very quickly and they fixed the bug in less than a week.

https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Multiqueue#Multiqueue_virtio-net

Details about 1/5 the page down,under Network Device.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu/KVM_Virtual_Machines

Frigate just released v13!! I can’t wait to try it out this weekend

I’ve never used either zigbee or z-wave. Matter is vaporware as far as dimmers go.

I went with lutron caseta, their Diva line is really nice. And now they have 2 button pico remotes that aren’t fugly.

I run pihole on proxomox, and also opnsense in the same box. Then you can forward all port 53 traffic to your pihole. Some devices have hard-coded DNS that will bypass the DHCP DNS.

I’ve never seen a heat pump dryer with an accurate countdown.

It’s amazing to me that there isn’t anything comparable to a fanlinc or keypad linc. RIP in peace insteon

I haven’t seen one- what’s it do?

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/4876

Looks like they already know, and upstream is working on it. I am curious why the sub domains get http/3 and the root domain does not.

I tried to dig into that but couldn’t come up with a good test. But if NAT hairpinning wasn’t working right, I’d be limited to my ISPs 50Mbit, right? I could get 200+ Mbit on wifi. I also tested this from work (50 Mbit sym fiber) and subdomains always were slower. I figured out today it’s HTTP/3 causing my problems. I don’t know if I care to troubleshoot anymore since it’s working great with http 1 & 2.

I mentioned above- the subdomains were using HTTP/3, and the root entry does not. I don’t know if it’s something I have mis-configured or just HTTP/3 being new and maybe buggy. Either way, i disabled it globally and performance is the same.

The profiles were totally different- because the subdomain uses HTTP/3 via the quic-go library. Disabling it globally has it working at 100%

Avoid Intel based solutions https://lookgadgets.com/articles/intel-puma-modems-list/

Almost all 32x8 (capable of 1 gig) docsis 3 modems are going to be puma based.

No reason not to get docsis 3.1 unless you are truly cash strapped. That leaves the SB8200 if you’re ok with 1Gbe ports, or the S33 if you want a 2.5 port.