My server1 that lives in Milywan’s Croissy-Beaubourg/CBO location actually has a 10G NIC, as it was one of my requirements when setting it up. Something I have never really used its full potential.
Today that changed (sort of).
Milkywan has a group chat on telegram where we talk about tech and other things between members. One of the guys there was looking for someone with a Mikrotik router “on-net” to run some bandwidth tests.
I am a fan of travelling, although I haven’t been able to travel much since the birth of the little one but I digress.
Back to Onebag travel: Many of us have dealt with the hassle of managing multiple, often large bags while travelling. How often have you arrived at a destination before being able to check in to your accommodation? In such cases, I usually start exploring the destination, but the challenge is dealing with large bags. Ideally, you can either A) leave your bags at your accommodation, B) find a bag storage location, or C) wait until you can check in.
After loosing one of my virtual private servers along with the data in the ‘The Great Fire of OVH 🔥’1 (Yes I know I should have had backups of that VPS2), I thought why not setup a Proxmox3 Cluster4 on a couple dedicated servers.
So I went ahead and found OneProvider.com where you can rent dedicated servers for cheap, their cheap hardware is old and the connectivity is ok but you cannot beat there pricing (Server with an Intel Atom C2750, 16 Gb Ram, 1Tb Hard drive and 1Gb of ‘unlimited’ bandwidth was €14 per server/month at the time). That went great for a couple of months but I kept getting frustrated with not having full control over the hardware and my growing interest for BGP5 and how the internet is really just a bunch of (small) inter connected networks. After some trial and error I decided I should review my home-lab goals and re-think my shopping list.
