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About ARFNET

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ARFNET technical description

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- ARFNET is a non-profit organization (a homelab really) devoted to several causes such as: -

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- The ARFNET infrastructure consists of a network of hosts providing services like this website itself. - Some of the services are for my own use, some others are public, for friends or everyone to use them, for example, - /FTPServer is the general directory for sharing random stuff. - But ARFNET didn't start like it is today, in the begining this was just me opening random ports. Now is (mostly) well organised and administrated. -

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- A little bit of history now. A long time ago, several years back, I downloaded Apache HTTP Server in my shitty Pentium PC (the first host), and opened port 80 in my router. - That is the origin. But I wanted more, I got a FreeDNS domain, the former arf20.mooo.com, and made a HTTPS certificate. Also installed Bitvise SSH server for remote management, - with public key authentication, and allowed my NIC to wake the PC with Wake-on-LAN, to have it always available. But this wasn't a very good way of hosting a website, is not 24/7. - I had a little Raspberry Pi 2B (raspi), which used to serve PPTP 24/7. But a raspi is not beefy enough to run nginx and to have a big drive. So, the waiting - has paid off, and in summer 2021 I got my first real thicc and beautiful enterprise server. A DELL PowerEdge R720, which I inmediately bricked. You are not warned of the - special update process that iDRAC needs, so I just tried updating to the last version, which went wrong. So wrong that iDRAC cound't be reflashed again. The only - thing that I could do is change the motherboard, but that is even more expensive than another server. Another server? I still got eBay 1 month return warranty, - so I applied it. Told the seller "iDRAC broke itself lol", somehow they accepted. I got my 300€ back, and bought another R720, with better CPU! So I popped the boot drive, - for which I choosed Ubuntu Server, and HDD from the old server, and it was almost plug-and-play. ARFNET back in business! From that point on, I have been migrating more services - to the server, and adding new ones, like NTP and DNS. Now, my workstation is so linked to the server with SMB mounts that it is useless without it :concern:. I'll be more careful. -

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- Update 2022-3: Got a rack, mounted server in the rack, also got a Mikrotik RB2011UiaS-RM, but turns out it sucks (can't do NAT fast enough), rewired the network with a nice patch panel, - got donated a few DELL switches and Cisco router, and finally kicked Vodafone, in favor of Avanzafibra, local ISP. - Pretty nice people, they offer static IPs, 1000/1000 FTTH, separate ONT, and SIP credentials. - Then I won an auction for 10x 3TB HGST drives, so now I've got a pretty nice 18TB RAID5 vault. The raspi died, sad. And then I eventually opened my mind and discovered just - how shitty ubuntu is, so I installed proxmox and made debian VMs, from which ARFNET is running now. Also got 64GB of 2Rx4 RAM for more VMs, like an OPNSense to replace the Mikrotik, - now I can finally make use of a full gigabit backbone, you'll notice a fantastic increase of speed. -

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- And what will the future hold? Well, the future is not written, but I got a few ideas. Like a 10gig upgrade, but not the whole network, that would be just too expensive. - Just a 10GBASE-SR link, between the server and desktop, to make it even more linked together, with SATA speeds network shares. Both with their respectible 1000BASE-T links to - the router. I could also get a rackmounted KVM console, one of the coolest things one can have in a rack. Maybe with a KVM switch for future servers? I should get a proper 2U UPS too, - this one doesn't last enough. -

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About ARFNET

+

ARFNET technical description

+
+

+ ARFNET is a non-profit organization (a homelab really) devoted to several causes such as: +

+ + +

+ The ARFNET infrastructure consists of a network of hosts providing services like this website itself. + Some of the services are for my own use, some others are public, for friends or everyone to use them, for example, + /FTPServer is the general directory for sharing random stuff. + But ARFNET didn't start like it is today, in the begining this was just me opening random ports. Now is (mostly) well organised and administrated. +

+ +

+ A little bit of history now. A long time ago, several years back, I downloaded Apache HTTP Server in my shitty Pentium PC (the first host), and opened port 80 in my router. + That is the origin. But I wanted more, I got a FreeDNS domain, the former arf20.mooo.com, and made a HTTPS certificate. Also installed Bitvise SSH server for remote management, + with public key authentication, and allowed my NIC to wake the PC with Wake-on-LAN, to have it always available. But this wasn't a very good way of hosting a website, is not 24/7. + I had a little Raspberry Pi 2B (raspi), which used to serve PPTP 24/7. But a raspi is not beefy enough to run nginx and to have a big drive. So, the waiting + has paid off, and in summer 2021 I got my first real thicc and beautiful enterprise server. A DELL PowerEdge R720, which I inmediately bricked. You are not warned of the + special update process that iDRAC needs, so I just tried updating to the last version, which went wrong. So wrong that iDRAC cound't be reflashed again. The only + thing that I could do is change the motherboard, but that is even more expensive than another server. Another server? I still got eBay 1 month return warranty, + so I applied it. Told the seller "iDRAC broke itself lol", somehow they accepted. I got my 300€ back, and bought another R720, with better CPU! So I popped the boot drive, + for which I choosed Ubuntu Server, and HDD from the old server, and it was almost plug-and-play. ARFNET back in business! From that point on, I have been migrating more services + to the server, and adding new ones, like NTP and DNS. Now, my workstation is so linked to the server with SMB mounts that it is useless without it :concern:. I'll be more careful. +

+ +

+ Update 2022-3: Got a rack, mounted server in the rack, also got a Mikrotik RB2011UiaS-RM, but turns out it sucks (can't do NAT fast enough), rewired the network with a nice patch panel, + got donated a few DELL switches and Cisco router, and finally kicked Vodafone, in favor of Avanzafibra, local ISP. + Pretty nice people, they offer static IPs, 1000/1000 FTTH, separate ONT, and SIP credentials. + Then I won an auction for 10x 3TB HGST drives, so now I've got a pretty nice 18TB RAID5 vault. The raspi died, sad. And then I eventually opened my mind and discovered just + how shitty ubuntu is, so I installed proxmox and made debian VMs, from which ARFNET is running now. Also got 64GB of 2Rx4 RAM for more VMs, like an OPNSense to replace the Mikrotik, + now I can finally make use of a full gigabit backbone, you'll notice a fantastic increase of speed. +

+ +

+ And what will the future hold? Well, the future is not written, but I got a few ideas. Like a 10gig upgrade, but not the whole network, that would be just too expensive. + Just a 10GBASE-SR link, between the server and desktop, to make it even more linked together, with SATA speeds network shares. Both with their respectible 1000BASE-T links to + the router. I could also get a rackmounted KVM console, one of the coolest things one can have in a rack. Maybe with a KVM switch for future servers? I should get a proper 2U UPS too, + this one doesn't last enough. +

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