Get a different job

• r/sysadmin Reddit, probably

I do a lot of Architecting for my company and it's often easier to have direct access to DNS to make quick changes rather than wait one or more days for an engineer to go change records. If this is just going to be a test environment perhaps you could delegate a subdomain of your current domain. E.g. Add NS records for test.example.com that point to the NS of the contractors hosted zone. This gives you control to tear it down (delete the NS records) but allows the contractor the ability to build the environment out.

Go with your gut.

Mouse without borders? It’s Mickeysoft and somewhat flaky but it does the job. I use it for 2 local puters. Uses IP addresses. Maybe some swearing at your router to config it to work might do the job.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=35460

Have you asked him the reason for the 2 domains?

My initial thoughts would be a CDN and testing domains if you don't have those yet.

Go and see mom and have a nice home cooked meal.

I use https://pikvm.org/

It’s a raspberry pi with a hat. Plugs into USB and HDMI to mimic a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and you can wire it to the power button as well.

I keep mine behind a VPN for security but there are other options.

It might have intel amt or vpro already, which is out of band management.

What do you do when the device isn't on the network for some reason (e.g. stuck during boot)?

Tailscale and ssh.

I personally use the Comet and have had a great luck with it.

I use NanoKVM and I'm quite happy with that. Also connected to the internal header so it can power on/off and edit BIOS.

As for security, I don't allow its IP to open up any outgoing connections.

ssh

though more seriously you haven't specified what platform the home server is. if you absolutely need a gui, probably VNC over ssh.

You can use a smart plug to remotely control power to the Raspberry Pi.

If you enable Wake-on-LAN in the server BIOS, the Raspberry Pi can use Etherwake to power up the server when needed.

To connect to the Pi, I would suggest using a Pi4 or Pi5 and remote into it via Raspberry Pi Connect. That will give you secure remote access to the Pi.

Here's a video comparison of 4 common options. He tests uploading an ISO, booting said ISO, looks at out of the box security and how the developers have handled issues.

Remote Access using IP KVMs! Full Comparison JetKVM vs NanoKVM vs Comet vs PiKVM

Check out JetKVM. The software and hardware is well thought out and works great. I use it for my homelab (mostly internally, so I can't say too much about external access).

https://jetkvm.com/

Responding as I also would be interested and don't want to lose this thread.

Though in my use case being able to power cycle is also important, although maybe could be done via controlling UPS

Mattermost

Why would a hacker club want to use a commercial normie core platform like slack?

Best case for their charity is likely to stay on Slack to get them as corporate sponsors, but add "data sovereignty" as a core part of their curriculum. That keeps the charity going, but instills the foss ethos in all their students.

Who knows though. They have 5 years of free slack either way because it would be incredibly bad PR to revoke it now. The runway is there to exit cleanly at least, which is a lot more than they had before.

If you're relying on someone else's computer to keep your data safe, don't be surprised when they use that data as a hostage to demand more money. Sure, using other peoples' computers to host your infrastructure can make a lot of sense. Just be sure you have a backup plan for when they send Guido around to demand more money.

This ad is based on reality because if they quit Slack then the company will go over to Teams which everyone knows, makes its users wanted to dropkick their computers.

Often is between Slack and Teams which would make me get up on that hill.

There's plenty:

Mattermost seems to be the most generally liked, Matrix/Element is the most open, Rocket.Chat is the most feature packed. And there's also Zulip which I don't know that well.

Then there are also dozens of much smaller names.

Ah thanks. Well hopefully that's all just lip service to cover them while they shift over to something they control anyway.