Schwa
- Brand
- Rocking Schwa
- Read as
- ə on a rocker
- Suite
- West
A barndominium on a few acres where three old nerds retire together instead of apart. One big steel barn with three identical suites, a three-car garage, a room just for the servers, its own power, and a guild stone out front.
Status: conceptLand: not yetResidents: 3Timeline: someday
Every ranch registers its brands. The ranch has its own, and each resident has one too, burned into anything that needs to come home.
An F with an up mark, written F^. It goes on the gate, the Guild Stone, and everything the ranch owns.
Out front, where the walk meets the yard, stands the Guild Stone: a granite obelisk with the ranch brand at the top and every resident's name cut into its face. It's modeled on the guildstones of Ultima Online. Moving in means getting your name on the stone.
A 44 × 90 post-frame building. A hall runs the length of the house with a door at each end. Three identical suites, each with a full bath and its own door to the outside, open off one side of it. The server room, The Battleground, the kitchen and the living room open off the other. Coming in from the garage, you pass through the mudroom into the kitchen, and guests get their own bathroom off the living room.
Rev. 3. Nothing here is drawn by an architect.
Every room gets its own fiber run from the server room and its own access switch. Each resident lives on a separate VLAN, and the firewall keeps them apart. Everyone can still reach the internet, the servers and The Battleground. The internet comes in over two 10G circuits from different providers on opposite sides of the property, with Starlink as the last resort.
| VLAN | Network | Rooms | Can reach |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Rook | Rook's suite | Internet, servers, The Battleground |
| 7 | Boks | Boks's suite | Internet, servers, The Battleground |
| 9 | Schwa | Schwa's suite | Internet, servers, The Battleground |
| 69 | Common | Kitchen, living room, mudroom, garage | Internet |
| 420 | Guest | Wi-Fi only | Internet only |
| 666 | Battleground | The Battleground | Internet, servers |
| 999 | IoT | Cameras, thermostats, solar and battery controls | Internet only |
| 3005 | Servers | Server room | Internet |
No resident VLAN can reach another. The firewall in the server room enforces it.
A battery bank that can run the whole ranch for 36 hours, servers included, and enough solar on the roof to power everything. The grid becomes the backup.
Sizes are estimates for planning. The real numbers come from an actual load calculation.