A mini home rack

I joked when we got our own place that we’d have the freedom to build a server rack of some description. That’d still be the dream, but we also don’t have the space. Or… do we? This is a DeskPi, made famous by the likes of Jeff Geerling, and recommended by a few friends. These are much smaller than a standard 19-inch rack, but large enough to fit all the comms an enthusiast would need for their home network setup. This is one of the smaller units, but they have taller ones. There are also a few other manufacturers for these small/hobbyist racks. I’m intrigued. Off the top of my head, I’d love to have one to stash away: A patch panel of some sort Our small fibre NTU/modem Ex-Sophos router and 4-port switch, running NetBSD 8-port Linksys/Belkin Gigabit PoE+ switch 8-port Netgear Gigabit switch (maybe 10G one day?) 2x Dell Wyse 3040 boxes for network services 2x VisionFive RISC-V boards, for tinkering The Dell Wyse and VisionFive boards would fit two to a shelf, so that looks like seven…