Hardware Sucks
It’s coarse and rough and irritating and… it sucks. There’s a reason why cloud providers are wildly popular. Scaling in AWS is incredibly easy; not so much when you’re rolling your own. God help you if you’re doing this by cobbling together disparate groups of enterprise and consumer hardware. Oh wait, that’s exactly what I’m doing. I’ve had a Linux box since 2016 or so. I mean, I dual-booted every distro known to man with Windows when I was a teenager (including bootstrapped Gentoo, and I managed to get a crotchety HP printer to work with it), but I didn’t have a dedicated Linux box until then. I had a Synology DS413 in 2012, but busybox barely counts. In 2016, the IT manager at my employer was kind enough to donate a Dell T310 to me that the company no longer had use for. After buying an H200 HBA and flashing it to support pass-through, I installed Debian and was off to the races. A friend convinced me to learn Docker, and everything after that just kind of came naturally. ...