Thanks everyone - very informative and entertaining show as usual 
I seem to have somehow missed the details of the Solarwinds issues you mention, probably because in the UK we have our own dramas unfolding which are a distraction from important things like computers 
I have to say Iāve never dabbled in server technology yet, apart from running web server software when I was teaching myself web development a few years ago. Nextcloud and GitLab have their appeal, I have to say and theyāll probably be the first I try when I get around to server projects.
@dasgeek, as inspiring as your dance moves are this episode, I have to say Iām curious about your opinion of Watchmen, as I seem to notice a poster in the background. I loved the Graphic Novel and film adaptation but have not seen the TV series at all. I even found the prequel novels interesting. I wonder what your views are?
I must push back on the āhome labā conversation.Most of the examples of services were things that people would miss if they disappeared. Thatās not a lab service if you will miss it when itās gone. A lab is a playground. Itās meant to be torn down and rebuilt. If you tear down your lab, what happens to your pihole? It goes away along with your DNS resolutionā¦your VPN, your proxy server, etc.
Iām not saying donāt run theseā¦Iām saying donāt run these in a home lab. Create a āproductionā environment from the services you play with in your lab.
Great show today (as usual) folks!!!
As far as home labs, Iāve often built franken-computers but actual home labs has been just me dabbling. Lately, iāve been bitten by this bug, so hope to do more fun stuff in the home lab arena. Thanks again for a great show!
I agree with @mjbmd.
A Home Lab is a place to test things out. Like scientists to in a regular lab.
For example. I donāt have anything in my Home Lab right now.
But I do have Jellyfin and Home Assistant in my Home Network, which is something I rely on.
So what the DLN crew is probably talking about is setting up a Home Network, not a Home Lab.
Ah I see what you are saying. It is a poor choice of vocabulary. So ālabā is where you test things and then āproductionā is where things go from the test stage to the full time use stage.
I think for most people just getting started, the lines between these are pretty blurry. Personally I do all my ātestingā on the same machine that runs my āproductionā services. I use docker exclusively so that makes it possible to do this easily. If services werenāt in containers, I could see myself having separate machines for lab and production.