Hardware

Over the summer I got a R1500 G3 ups for my server it is quite over kill however i hope to connect my POE switch and starlink internet to also keep wifi up during a power outage. To that end it would be rather nice if my server actually shut down as the power was running out rather than just continuing until it dies when the battery runs out. The last piece of this puzzle was a usb a to usb b cable which I recently got. This connection goes from my ups to my r720 on which i decided to install nut. The server is running proxmox as its primary OS so I was able to install nut with apt however the first few guides I followed ended up not working for what ever reason. The one that finally worked was this one. Once I had that sorted I setup a web nut docker container in terraform which all went smoothly I hope to eventually add the stats to graphana for data visulisation but for now i am happy.

For christmas 2023 i got a second hand R720 from ebay i cost around £150 it has: 2 E5-2690 v2s for a total of 20 cores at 3 GHz; 256gb of ram; duel 10gig sfp+ ports; and 16x900gb 2.5" sas hdds (However only 2 drive sleds). My plan for this server was to use proxmox to build an environment that gave me space to run some useful services as well as mess around with new software. ...

Since the PC build contained a wide range of expensive parts I was unable to build it until my dad was around to help me. This ment that even though I got the parts on Christmas day it took until the 31st of December for me to be able to build it. After all this though my dad was a big help holding multiple screws while I built the PC using this amazing guide from Linus Tech Tips (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL4DCEp7blY). By the time it got to software my dad had given up and I installed windows 10 on my own. Over all it was a easy build and luckily nothing went wrong. ...