What would you recommend to a guy whose just getting started out and pursuing his trifecta?

  • MrBigOBX@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    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

    • vasaforever@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      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.