Good point. I actually have a watt meter coming in the mail tomorrow. Will measure the idle consumption of the r430 and report back. This thing sits mostly at under 10% except when running backups or the machine learning algos for nextcloud image recognition.
I've considered it, but decent NUCs are much pricier than old discarded hardware.
I have a good source thru my job for tons of CTO hardware, these R230's cost me about 50 bucks a pop, and considering they sip power they're a really hard to pass deal, it sounds like a really good way to learn proxmox HA, load balancing and ceph minus the storage capacity
I guess I could still host a 10G nas on an r230 with a DAS, but my questions remain.
I'm currently using CF Tunnels and I'm thinking about this (I have pretty good offers for VPS as low as $4 a month)
Can you comment on bandwidth expectations? My concern is that I also tunnel Nextcloud and my offsite backups and I may exceed the VPS bandwidth restrictions.
BTW I'm testing Pangolin which looks AWESOME so far.
Because carriers are smart and greedy and lobbied the government to sell a block of spectrum that is only used in the US for 5g, so if you want good connectivity in the us, you have to buy a phone from them at 3 times the price.
You already have a lot of good answers ... but I got one more to add.
I have a very similar setup on my homelab and I'm using a Cloudflare tunnel.
It's a free service and it's really good because it allows you to expose web services and specific ports for remote access over dynamic IPs without having to expose your own router.
They have an external connector in the back for adding external batteries and the menu to do so is analog.
I added a golf cart battery to mine tripping the capacity for very very cheap.
Look in the used market.
If you want something better, Eaton is the go to, look for used deals in marketplace / craigslist. I found someone selling Used industrial Eaton UPSs with extended batteries for 150$ the set
Wow! Thanks so much for that explanation. I think In my mind I was mixing DAS with SAN and "fabric"
I'm much more confident now In planning this upgrade.