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Is it even cost effective to have a lab anymore with $2.50 instances from Vultr? I could understand having a fairly beefy server with xen or esxi for spinning up VMs on the fly at your house.
I've got a somewhat powerful desktop running VMware workstation pro. It's not ideal for performance or as means for production servers like esxi, but it's damn easy to manage. Test VMs require minimal resources anyway and usually have minimal use. I've had no issues running 7 or 8 VMs at once. I mean go with a decent Dell or hp server and run xen or esxi if you want something mirroring what you'd see in production.
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@IRJ said in Judge My House Layout:
Is it even cost effective to have a lab anymore with $2.50 instances from Vultr? I could understand having a fairly beefy server with xen or esxi for spinning up VMs on the fly at your house.
It depends, if you want to test hardware, hypervisors and some stuff like that, then yes. If you only want to test operating systems, not so much.
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@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
@IRJ said in Judge My House Layout:
Is it even cost effective to have a lab anymore with $2.50 instances from Vultr? I could understand having a fairly beefy server with xen or esxi for spinning up VMs on the fly at your house.
It depends, if you want to test hardware, hypervisors and some stuff like that, then yes. If you only want to test operating systems, not so much.
My train of thought as well. Only reason I have it is to learn and virtualization is one of the many things I don't know enough about yet.
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@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
@IRJ said in Judge My House Layout:
Is it even cost effective to have a lab anymore with $2.50 instances from Vultr? I could understand having a fairly beefy server with xen or esxi for spinning up VMs on the fly at your house.
It depends, if you want to test hardware, hypervisors and some stuff like that, then yes. If you only want to test operating systems, not so much.
My train of thought as well. Only reason I have it is to learn and virtualization is one of the many things I don't know enough about yet.
Don't forget to implement a serious backup system in your lab as well, you want to learn how disaster recovery will work in your various environments.
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@restoronix said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
@IRJ said in Judge My House Layout:
Is it even cost effective to have a lab anymore with $2.50 instances from Vultr? I could understand having a fairly beefy server with xen or esxi for spinning up VMs on the fly at your house.
It depends, if you want to test hardware, hypervisors and some stuff like that, then yes. If you only want to test operating systems, not so much.
My train of thought as well. Only reason I have it is to learn and virtualization is one of the many things I don't know enough about yet.
Don't forget to implement a serious backup system in your lab as well, you want to learn how disaster recovery will work in your various environments.
*cough* shamelessplug *cough*
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@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@DustinB3403 said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
@DustinB3403 said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
There will not be a mattress in my basement because I'm not a serial killer
Something to consider though is adding an external basement access with walkin (not walk down) entrance if possible.
Very useful for getting things like washer and dryers, furnance, water heaters etc into the house without having to carry it all from upstairs.
Laura is against having that kind of entrance but if we did it right I think it would be beneficial
Freaking women. . . she just wants to see you die as you fall down the basement stairs moving in the new washer and dryer. . . .
Who puts there washer and dryer in the basement? That's a terrible place for it.
It was common to do so. The house I grew up in had all that in the basement. Furnace /hot water heater, well pump (until we put in the submersible), fireplace (Buck stove), washer / dryer.
But it was built in the 40-50's
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@DustinB3403 said in Judge My House Layout:
@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@DustinB3403 said in Judge My House Layout:
@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@DustinB3403 said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
@DustinB3403 said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
There will not be a mattress in my basement because I'm not a serial killer
Something to consider though is adding an external basement access with walkin (not walk down) entrance if possible.
Very useful for getting things like washer and dryers, furnance, water heaters etc into the house without having to carry it all from upstairs.
Laura is against having that kind of entrance but if we did it right I think it would be beneficial
Freaking women. . . she just wants to see you die as you fall down the basement stairs moving in the new washer and dryer. . . .
Who puts there washer and dryer in the basement? That's a terrible place for it.
Not if the washer floods . . .
Although you could put it upstairs in a washroom with a flood pan etc.
But I don't like hearing the washer / dryer going.
Eh having it on the same level you live on is just way too convenient. Not having to lug our laundry up and down stairs is awesome.
Put a dumbwaiter in.
That is my nickname... so no,.. not going there.
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@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
Another question is what kind of material for the flooring
Hard wood throughout with tile in the kitchen, entrance, and bathrooms. Carpet is ugly and disgusting.
Yea,.. so is walking across the floor and walking across 'stuff' the kids drop.
I swear - a dirt floor house would be cleaner.
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@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@DustinB3403 said in Judge My House Layout:
bamboo is pretty cheap I think, because of how fast it grows.
You could do a wood like tile and put heating under it throughout the house. Which could act as supplemental heat.
Definitely do radiant floor heating. Slightly more expensive but much more efficient in the long run.
So it sounds like floor heating similar to baseboard heating. How would that fit in with a tankless water heater?
Doesn't... But you can do a hybrid tank radiant floor system.
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@gjacobse said in Judge My House Layout:
@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
Another question is what kind of material for the flooring
Hard wood throughout with tile in the kitchen, entrance, and bathrooms. Carpet is ugly and disgusting.
Yea,.. so is walking across the floor and walking across 'stuff' the kids drop.
I swear - a dirt floor house would be cleaner.
Then wood? Something that can be easily cleaned?
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@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@gjacobse said in Judge My House Layout:
@coliver said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
Another question is what kind of material for the flooring
Hard wood throughout with tile in the kitchen, entrance, and bathrooms. Carpet is ugly and disgusting.
Yea,.. so is walking across the floor and walking across 'stuff' the kids drop.
I swear - a dirt floor house would be cleaner.
Then wood? Something that can be easily cleaned?
Yes,.. Just wait till that darling child of yours brings friends home and runs all over the house,.. eating snacks,... Not only does the basement look like a LEGO truck wrecked down here,.. but the hardwood/tile upstairs is splattered with this that and the other...
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quick thought on the Hotwater and either on 100GAL tank or tankless...
you could also go with a re-circulation system... some houses have this.
There is a contact switch at the sinks which starts a timer to run a pump and circulates hot water from the tank to the sinks and back to the tank input. This gets the hot water to the tap, but doesn't waste water down the drain.
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@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
Need to try to get rid of those hallways though. Hallways are wasted space.
While I understand what you're saying... I think they are often critical to good design.
Personally I don't want my master bedroom touching the living room/family room at all. That space is where people will be even after you go to bed. If you don't isolate the bedrooms away from the living space, then you could easily have a noise problem.
in the case of your posted plans, I would put the closet and bathroom between the bedroom and the kitchen/living rooms.
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I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.
Its not your current house, is it? If not, could you redraw the layout to give us an idea of what it looked like and why you loved it so much?
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@NerdyDad said in Judge My House Layout:
@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.
Its not your current house, is it? If not, could you redraw the layout to give us an idea of what it looked like and why you loved it so much?
as long as the bedroom was not directly against the living room or family room, that is fine.
I have seen a few layouts where there is basically an alcove off the kitchen/dining room with doors going in 3 directions to bedrooms and a bathroom. so not a hallway.
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@JaredBusch said in Judge My House Layout:
@NerdyDad said in Judge My House Layout:
@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.
Its not your current house, is it? If not, could you redraw the layout to give us an idea of what it looked like and why you loved it so much?
as long as the bedroom was not directly against the living room or family room, that is fine.
I have seen a few layouts where there is basically an alcove off the kitchen/dining room with doors going in 3 directions to bedrooms and a bathroom. so not a hallway.
That's what we had. Tiny alcove, just big enough to hold a closet door, bathroom door and bedroom door. Connected to the living room where the living room met the kitchen.
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@JaredBusch said in Judge My House Layout:
@NerdyDad said in Judge My House Layout:
@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.
Its not your current house, is it? If not, could you redraw the layout to give us an idea of what it looked like and why you loved it so much?
as long as the bedroom was not directly against the living room or family room, that is fine.
I have seen a few layouts where there is basically an alcove off the kitchen/dining room with doors going in 3 directions to bedrooms and a bathroom. so not a hallway.
You could achieve this with storage space too. We'll see what the builders offer. It'll be fun to show you guys whenever that ends up happening
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@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
@JaredBusch said in Judge My House Layout:
@NerdyDad said in Judge My House Layout:
@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.
Its not your current house, is it? If not, could you redraw the layout to give us an idea of what it looked like and why you loved it so much?
as long as the bedroom was not directly against the living room or family room, that is fine.
I have seen a few layouts where there is basically an alcove off the kitchen/dining room with doors going in 3 directions to bedrooms and a bathroom. so not a hallway.
You could achieve this with storage space too. We'll see what the builders offer. It'll be fun to show you guys whenever that ends up happening
For a moment I thought that this was about Storage Spaces. But nope, actually discussing storage space. LOL
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@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
@wirestyle22 said in Judge My House Layout:
@JaredBusch said in Judge My House Layout:
@NerdyDad said in Judge My House Layout:
@scottalanmiller said in Judge My House Layout:
I had a hallwayless house once, we loved it.
Its not your current house, is it? If not, could you redraw the layout to give us an idea of what it looked like and why you loved it so much?
as long as the bedroom was not directly against the living room or family room, that is fine.
I have seen a few layouts where there is basically an alcove off the kitchen/dining room with doors going in 3 directions to bedrooms and a bathroom. so not a hallway.
You could achieve this with storage space too. We'll see what the builders offer. It'll be fun to show you guys whenever that ends up happening
For a moment I thought that this was about Storage Spaces. But nope, actually discussing storage space. LOL
Signs you might be an IT guy, lol.
