For those wanting to run a home lab environment, there are many options available. However, a viable option these days is using the cloud to spin up a home lab. Which should you invest in, home server or cloud? This is a question many start asking when thinking about buying home lab gear that may add up to quite an investment. We talk about the pros and cons of running your lab on a home server or cloud environment and see which one might make the most sense for which use case.
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Introduction - 0:00
Talking about using a physical server in your home - 1:07
Talking about the advantages of a physical home server - 1:24
Physical tinkering with hardware and networking - 2:02
Organizations today are taking a hybrid approach - 2:25
Downsides to running a home server - 2:36
Active cooling for home lab environment - 3:00
Equipment failures, lifecycle management - 3:20
Capital Investment vs Operational Expense - lure of SaaS - 3:45
Looking at home lab resources online such as LabGopher - 4:23
What are your objectives? You must consider what you want to accomplish - 5:20
Reaching a threshold of a certain number of resources - 6:07
Introduction to running a home lab environment in the cloud - 6:25
Talking about free tier offerings in the public cloud - 6:55
Highlighting the Amazon AWS Free Tier offering - 7:12
Thinking about run time and how it will add up with many resources - 9:35
A third option? What about a hybrid approach? 10:25
Concluding thoughts on home server vs cloud - 11:46
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