Way back in 2009, I purchased a 2 post 19″ 8U desktop rack from Ebay for £8.50 and £3.00 P&P.
I do not have a picture of the actual item, but it looks a lot like the one below, except it uses round tubing and has threaded holes rather than using cage nuts.
As part of re designing my home network, I moved the coax cable for my internet so that it enters my house in the loft, since this is where I want to place the majority of the network equipment and this is also where all of my satellite coax is distributed from.
I already had a CyberPower CP1350EAVRLCD-UK 1350VA Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) that I was using to keep my HP Microserver alive that I bought on Ebay back in 2018 for £77.99.
So I purchased an additional one, this time a CyberPower VALUE1500EILCD 1500VA unit for £65.00 and free P&P.
The 1500VA UPS was then used to protect the HP Microserver and the 1350VA unit was moved to the loft to protect the network equipment.
The main reason for choosing which one to place in the loft was because the 1350VA one also had a number of UK plug sockets on the rear and I wanted to use this to my advantage.
I bought an 8 way IEC C13 Switch Panel PDU from CPC for £29.99, along with 8 x IEC C13 1m extension leads for £1.43 each, this unit happens to have a UK plug (another reason for choosing which UPS to use in the loft).
I also purchased a 24 port keystone patch panel from Ebay for £13.50 and several packs of 10 x RJ45 keystone jacks from Amazon for £8.99 each.
The 1350VA UPS powers a UK 4 way power strip, which in turn supplies the PDU, A PoE injector for a Ubiquiti N-SW, my internet router and a MoCA unit, these last two have dedicated power supplies built into their plugs, so not IEC compatible.
The PDU in turn supplies power to everything else that has a C13 IEC ‘kettle’ power connector.
Currently the rack contains from the bottom to the top: The 8 way PDU, Unifi UNVR, CheckPoint T-180 (4800) firewall running pfSense, Unifi US-24 Switch, Unifi US-16-150W PoE Switch and finally the 24 port patch panel.
My Virgin Hynix cable router (in modem mode) sits on top of the Unifi US-16-150W switch, as does the Hive controller for the heating. The cable modem also has a USB 4G cellular backup dongle in case the cable internet goes down.
The current Network design is shown below.
