100% out of pocket. I left the customer world to the partner/consulting side in October. I no longer had a "production" environment so felt I was losing touch with operations. I need to feel operational pains in order to be effective solving them for people. So I decided to begin building both prod and lab separately at the house. I had this house built with the intent to make one of the rooms into a server room (power/cooling beefed up in it). Sponsors would be cool but then I'd feel like I owe them or something. Everything I learn I want to share freely with the community and unfiltered, all my opinions.