<story><title>LackRack</title><url>https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>owenversteeg</author><text>Most people here are completely missing the point. It&amp;#x27;s a $4.99 coffee table, available at every Ikea worldwide. You&amp;#x27;re telling me you shouldn&amp;#x27;t put your &amp;quot;high-value hardware&amp;quot; inside a four dollar and ninety nine cent coffee table? Wow, I&amp;#x27;m super surprised!&lt;p&gt;It is helpful for a lot of people though. I know a handful of  people myself who have no rack whatsoever, just putting the unit on the floor or on a desk. For them, this is a massive upgrade that costs less than a sandwich, looks nice, and boosts airflow.&lt;p&gt;Is it marginally more dangerous than spending a ridiculous amount of money on a rack? Sure. Did Ikea specifically design these as server racks? Obviously not. It&amp;#x27;s a hack. We&amp;#x27;re on Hacker News.</text></comment>
<story><title>LackRack</title><url>https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>protomyth</author><text>This reminds me of another wood rack.&lt;p&gt;When we first setup the college&amp;#x27;s server room, we really couldn&amp;#x27;t afford proper server racks.  The carpentry program decided they weren&amp;#x27;t really that tough to build.  They took all the measurements and specs for size and where the holes had to be and went off and said they would get the job done.&lt;p&gt;So, I showed up to install the new servers and gazed upon beautiful oak server racks.&lt;p&gt;It was quite functional, but did bring up and issue that LackRack owners might take into consideration: &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t forget to do proper grounding&amp;quot;.  Fortunately, the school&amp;#x27;s electrician knew his business and did his part.&lt;p&gt;I do admit it looked better and was easier to use than the current dull, commercially bought one in the building we later moved to.  After all these years, I sometimes miss the old one, but I would have probably gone steampunk on it and that can be bad.  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=TFCuE5rHbPA&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>