4 - Compute - ION Based NUC -> ThinCentre / ML360G6
5 - Virtual Envio - Single ESXI Host -> 5 Node Proxmox Cluster with Ceph on 10G
Basically for me it started with Saving private ryan on VCD / CDR back in the day, that led me down the IRC rabbit hole and i got into XBMC for playback. That meant NAS storage for more movies and then from XBMC i moved into Plex so needed more server based compute and such. All the while needed to learn networking to hook it all up and make it work correctly.
I also went from working at Terminix as a pest control operator to doing customer support via email for a .com in the early 2000’s to now leading technical deployments at a forture 10 pharma :)
All cause of Saving Private Ryan on Pirated VCD in CAMMED quality lol
Im a little “seasoned” at 45 rotations around the blue ball so YRMV lol
1 - Pirated Movies - XBMC -> Plex (2 bare metal servers with transition to Virtual in progress)
2 - Storage - Freenas -> Synology (300+TB across 6 units)
3 - Networking - Unmanaged -> Managed / Multi Vendor / LACP / WIFI
4 - Compute - ION Based NUC -> ThinCentre / ML360G6
5 - Virtual Envio - Single ESXI Host -> 5 Node Proxmox Cluster with Ceph on 10G
Basically for me it started with Saving private ryan on VCD / CDR back in the day, that led me down the IRC rabbit hole and i got into XBMC for playback. That meant NAS storage for more movies and then from XBMC i moved into Plex so needed more server based compute and such. All the while needed to learn networking to hook it all up and make it work correctly.
I also went from working at Terminix as a pest control operator to doing customer support via email for a .com in the early 2000’s to now leading technical deployments at a forture 10 pharma :)
All cause of Saving Private Ryan on Pirated VCD in CAMMED quality lol
For me it was the UPN TV show Legend and the VCDs I purchased off Ebay to replace my worn out VHS.
First home server was a Compaq with a Pentium 3 running XBMC and it went on from there.