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A simple question to this community, what are you self-hosting? It's probably fun to hear from each-other what services we are running.

Please mention at least the service (e.g. e-mail) and the software (e.g. postfix). Extra bonus points for also mentioning the OS and/or hardware (e.g. Linux Distribution, raspberry pi, etc) you are running on.

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[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what kind of link would be best, but sure. It's a Dell PowerConnect-5524. Picked it up from eBay I believe maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Not a particularly great switch, but it was cheap, had plenty of expansion, and some management capabilities. Consumes more power than I'd like though (~20-25w), and doesn't have some of the advanced capabilities of some newer switches.

For power consumption, yes. I prefer to use power efficient devices. The big standout in my lab is the NAS and Dell switch. The NAS is running very little, but still idles at ~100-110w so I'm looking at lowering that usage with a motherboard / processor swap in the future. It's using a server board and xenon processor which aren't really built for power efficiency. Swapping this to a recent consumer-grade board with an i3 would likely address this, but depending on chipset I'll probably loose ECC ram compatibility. I'd like to swap the switch to a more modern microtik 10g unit I think, with a large dumb swich; but I haven't settled on the idea for sure.