Using my amateur woodworking skills, I built myself a server rack using red oak and 72" metal rails last year. It lives in a dedicated corner of my basement where sound and heat are manageable challenges. It has since housed several enterprise switches (SONiC) and routers (VPP) I've been building around.

My venerable DS1513 NAS turned is now 12 years old, so I decided to leverage the rack to move to a Supermicro X11-based server running TrueNAS SCALE to replace it. 12 drives, 40 cores, 2 x 25Gb NICs, and 128GB of ECC RAM later, I may have over done it a little. But it's a very nice upgrade. I finished moving the NFS shares for this service over tonight and migrating to a new database run on the NAS server itself (which eliminates a long-standing pain point with iSCSI).

I'm considering just turning down my long-running Mastodon instance in favor of leaning in to #Enigmatick. As a result, I'm sending out lots of follow requests. Feel free to follow me back here, as this is what I'll be paying attention to moving forward.