UniPhi DC -- Home Edition Family Pack

UniPhi DC — Home Edition Family Pack ($2,499)

The flagship of the residential tier — installer, ninety-day inventor support, custom configuration help for up to eight machines. Home Edition Family Pack is engineered for the household that does not want a side project. The buyer hands the project to the inventor for a season and receives, at the end of it, a documented and verified rack made out of the family's existing computers, running the workloads the family chose, with every node monitored and every blueprint of the deployment delivered as a permanent record. The same Home Edition software described under the Installer and Complete tiers is the underlying engine; this tier wraps it in the human handling that makes a rack into a household appliance.

Who this is for

This tier is for the household where one person makes the technology decisions for several. The family has at least four computers — a desktop, a couple of laptops, a Mini-PC behind the TV, perhaps a Raspberry Pi serving as a print server, perhaps an old workstation in the basement. The family wants those machines to cooperate as one rack, to back each other up, to host the family's media library and the home-automation runtime and the personal Jupyter and whatever else the household has been meaning to set up but never has. The deciding member does not want to spend their weekends reading documentation. They want the rack delivered, configured, documented, and supported for long enough that questions are answered as they arise.

This tier is also right for the small home-office practitioner who runs their consulting business from the same network as the family — the photographer, the accountant, the writer, the small-medical-practice owner, the retired engineer with an unusual hobby. The home-office user wants a rack that survives the daily reality of an active household: the children rebooting the gaming PC, the spouse roaming the Wi-Fi, the Internet-service-provider router renumbering the LAN at three a.m. UniPhi DC Home Edition was designed for that reality; the Family Pack tier hands the deployment to the inventor so the practitioner can run the practice instead of administering it.

What you get at this tier

• Everything in the Installer and Complete tiers — the signed-ready 37 MB installer zip, the Windows service registration, the tray icon, the dashboard, the troubleshooter, the permanent right to deploy on the household's machines, the SHA-256 of the artifact, and the priority access to minor revisions during the support window.
• Ninety days of inventor email support instead of thirty. The window begins on the day the delivery email is sent and runs ninety calendar days. The same direct-inbox model applies: questions go to the inventor, answers come back from the inventor, no agent tier in between.
• Up to eight machines configured and documented. For each machine the household designates as a rack member, the inventor produces a one-page configuration document: name, role (hub or node), advertised CPU and RAM, scheduled-task install command used, firewall rule applied, pairing-code-derived secret, and the bring-up verification output. Eight machines, eight documents, one master diagram of how they cooperate.
• Up to four custom application bundles. The household identifies up to four applications the rack should run — a media library, a personal cloud, a home-automation runtime, a backup service, a Jupyter, a print server, a smart-home dashboard, an internal wiki — and the inventor packages each as a UniPhi bundle, with the manifest tuned to the household's CPU and RAM capacities. Each bundle is delivered with a written runbook describing what it does, where to find its data, how to deploy it again from scratch, and what to email about during any future incident.
• Two written rack reviews during the ninety-day window. At day thirty and again at day sixty, the inventor reviews the rack's structured logs, Prometheus metrics, and event-log records, then sends the household a written report: what is running, how often it has been rescheduled across machines, where the load is concentrated, what is worth changing, and what to leave alone.
• End-of-window deliverables packet. At day ninety the household receives a complete deliverables packet by email: the configuration documents for all eight machines, the bundles for all four applications, the two rack reviews, the runbooks, the cumulative event log of every state change the rack made during the window, and a permanent reference of every pairing code, every secret, every hostname, and every URL used in the deployment. A working record of the rack as it was operated.
• One scheduled migration plan. If the household's hardware will change — a new desktop, a retired laptop, a relocation, a renovation that moves the network closet — the inventor writes a migration plan during the ninety-day window: which machines join the rack, which leave, in what order, with what verification at each step.

How the ninety-day window runs in practice

Week one is bring-up. The household sends a list of the machines, the inventor sends back a deployment plan with the exact commands per machine, the household runs the commands and reports any failure, the inventor diagnoses and replies. By the end of week one the rack is operational and the first machine-level configuration documents are filed.

Weeks two through four are workload migration. The household identifies what they want the rack to do; the inventor packages each application as a UniPhi bundle, deploys it, verifies it from the dashboard and the metrics endpoint, and writes the runbook. At day thirty, the first written rack review is delivered.

Weeks five through eight are observation. The rack runs; the structured logs and metrics endpoint produce evidence; the household asks the questions that arise during normal use. At day sixty, the second written rack review is delivered, comparing the rack's actual behavior to the design targets.

Weeks nine through twelve are documentation finalization. Any drift from the original deployment is captured in updated configuration documents, the runbooks are revised, the migration plan (if the household requested one) is delivered, and the end-of-window packet is assembled. At day ninety the deliverables packet is sent and the support window closes.

Design target (carried from the lower tiers)

• Deploy latency p50, one through eight nodes — approximately one hundred milliseconds.
• Deploy latency p99, eight-node rack — approximately one hundred twenty-three milliseconds.
• Sustained throughput, single client — approximately ten deploys per second.
• Replication throughput, sixteen-megabyte file, N=3 replicas — approximately twenty-three megabytes per second user-visible.
• Reschedule recovery, eight-node rack, five apps moved — approximately two hundred eighty-one milliseconds algorithm-only.

One hundred thirty automated tests pass on the codebase. Numbers reproducible: uniphi-dc bench --scale 1,2,4,8 --apps 30 --output bench.md.

Why eight machines

The UniPhi DC fabric was designed against an eight-node-per-rack-hub architecture target — the same eight-node count used in the reference hardware schematics. A household with eight or fewer cooperating computers fits inside one rack; the dashboard, the scheduler, the storage coordinator, and the reschedule path were all benchmarked at that scale. A household with more than eight machines is still served by the same software (the SuperHub federation primitive composes multiple rack hubs into one logical control plane), but the Family Pack tier scopes the configuration support to eight to keep the deliverable definite and the price proportionate. Beyond eight machines, the appropriate engagement is a custom proposal — email the inventor before ordering.

Enterprise-grade features inside Home Edition

Identical to the Complete tier; reproduced here so the Family Pack buyer sees the full surface they have access to.

• Persistent hub state with hash-chained, fsync-on-write event log; replay-on-startup restores rack state exactly.
• Prometheus /metrics endpoint with counters, gauges, histograms.
• Structured JSON logs with trace identifiers.
• Optional mutual-TLS with per-peer X.509 certs signed by a small in-cluster CA.
• Optional role-based access control with multi-tenant quotas.
• Real resource enforcement — apps that exceed manifest RAM are watchdog-killed within ~250 milliseconds.
• Bundled uniphi-dc doctor troubleshooter that runs thirteen network and environment checks in five seconds and reports the cheapest fix per failure.

What is NOT included

• Commercial deployment. Single-household, non-commercial, residential use only.
• Telephone, video, or real-time support. Email-only, including the ninety-day window.
• International sale. USA-only. USD only.
• Hardware. Software only; the household supplies the PCs, the router, and the network closet.
• More than eight machines configured. Above eight, the engagement becomes a custom proposal.
• Custom development of the UniPhi DC binary. Bundling existing applications onto the rack is included; new feature work in the binary is not.
• Support beyond ninety days. Renewal is available by emailing the inventor; pricing per renewal.

System requirements

• Up to eight Windows 10 / Windows 11 PCs. Mixed CPU and RAM is expected and supported — the scheduler picks the right host for each application based on free RAM and CPU at place time.
• One residential Wi-Fi router; wired Ethernet supported.
• No Python, Docker, or Kubernetes install required.
• Administrator rights on each host for the one-time firewall UAC prompt.
• One email address per household for the support thread.

How to order

Email christopher@cri-one.com with subject UniPhi Home Edition — UNIPHI-HOME-FAMILY-PACK. Include the approximate number of machines and a rough description of the household's network. The inventor responds with payment arrangements and the deployment plan within one business day. The ninety-day support window begins the day the delivery email is sent.

Postal contact:
Christopher Gabriel Brown
1341 Wellington Cove
Lawrenceville, GA 30043-5255
United States

Patent-pending. USA-only sales. United States Dollars only. Email-only contact.