Home Server Thread

>>56002200
wat

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>>56002246
wat wat

Picture:
Home Server (Top)
Network switch (Middle)
pfSense box (Bottom)
Old picture, before the file server was painted

I have a 750ti/Q6600 box, is there any point in beefing up the storage in there and making it into a NAS? I'm currently using it for guests to play games when they come over.

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>>56002200
Home server
>Only NFS, Plex and torrentbox

>>56003049
The Q6600 is a 2.66GHz Quad Core right?
I would say yes, run what ever programs you want to share files and use VMWare (or your preferred similar) to run a VM running an OS of your choice in exclusive mode for guests to play games.

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Bumping with more of my uses

Just getting into homeservers. Is a DMZ an absolute must have if you're webhosting?

>>56003461
I have no idea, not into webhosting.

Skynet:
Lighttpd
Samba
OpenVPN
Crashplan
UMS
Privoxy

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>>56005967
Phone is an idiot.

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>>56002200
Dell PowerEdge T620 (2x Xeon 2660 / 192GB / 2x 240 GB PNY 1311 / 4x 480GB PNY 1311 / 12x Hitachi Ultrastar (7K3000) 3TB)
Server 2012 R2 Datacenter w/ Storage Spaces.
240's are RAID 1 and for OS + tools
480's are in tiered pool with 3TB drives.
4TB presented to Hyper-V. Presented as multiple mirror. Only VM pool is tiered.
1TB presented as temp transfer share. No redundancy.
1TB presented to profiles. Presented as multiple mirror. Roaming profiles are enabled. This may change.
12TB presented to Plex. Drive is offline to VHOST, and presented directly to VM. Redundancy is RAID 5.

VM count - 22 production
4x DC (2 core / 2GB RAM / 60GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
2x NS w/ DHCP (2 core / 2GB RAM / 60GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
Sharepoint (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 120GB content / 2012 R2)
Team Foundation Server (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 120GB content / 2012 R2)
System Center Operations Manager (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
Plex (8 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 12GB Media / 2012 R2)
System Center Configuation Manager (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 1TB content / 2012 R2 / increased CPU priority because transcoding)
SQL (8 core / 32GB RAM / 80GB OS / 250GB content / 2012 R2 / SQL 2012)
Offline root CA (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
AD Subordinate CA (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
2x Exchange 2013 CAS (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
2x Exchange 2012 MBX (4 core / 16GB RAM / 80GB OS / 250GB content / 2012 R2)
Dirsync (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
AD Federation Service (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
NAP / VPN / Direct connect (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
PBX (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 250GB content / 2012 R2 / 3CX)

12 VM's for migration testing to Win 2016.

Firewall - PCEngines APU1D4 (128GB SSD / Untangle)
Switch - Dell X1018P (16 port GIGE managed PoE + 2SFP)
AP - EAP1750H (PoE)
Phone - Polycom CX700 (5 in service)

>>56006020
No one man should have all that power

>>56006081
> No one man should have all that power
That's just for the home. Dev / Test have a half rack in a data center.

>>56003076
>aren't girls with pee pees just men
Best meme

>>56006020
Well fuck me. And here I thought my home setup was coming along.
>fractal node 304 itx case
>2x4TB Toshiba X300 HDDs, 4TB usable.
>Pentium g3630
>H97 itx asrock board
>2x2GB ddr3

Running Windows 7, sharing multiple folders over the network. Was going to add a dedicated Linux x86 machine and rpi3 to the network for messing with ssh, dedicated backup server for my phone and tablet, etc. Thanks for making me feel even more like a pleb. Also it seems like a lot of people with top end servers like that run Windows server OS and not Linux. Any particular reason? Could have sworn /g/ totes Linux as the end all be all for servers. Personally I love the out of box experience of Windows remote desktop. Linux doesn't have anything even close.

Lastly, would you recommend getting those new 8/10TB drives? The helium ones? I mean they're like $500 a peice, but still.

>>56006020
Mike?

>>56006020
>all that shit
>running wangblows
>not clear what the fuck it's actually all doing
>all those drives and not ZFS

>1tb hard drive that was just a year old, not used a lot
>setup a funtoo server box for private trackers, keep the machine alone most of the time
>hd dies one week later
And now I realize why we have SSDs.

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Lian Li d8000 case
i3-4130
16gb ECC
LSI 9211-8i
Intel RES2SV240
Freenas

14x3TB RaidZ-3 38TiB
3x6TB RaidZ 16TiB primary backup

LTO6 tape backups offsite

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Zfs raidz
Plex
weechat
Tmux
Transmission
Samba (Gaymen PC)
NFS (x220, macbook pro)
Openkore

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Oh hai guise. I think, you might help me out.
I'm planning on building my own switch/router+firewall+torrentbox/nas on a Mini-ITX board with one of those soldered-down 10-watt pentium-celerons, will add a 4-port chinese lan card and maybe a mPCIe wlan card for wireless.

Any ideas on how will this run all these torrents, firewalls and a vpn client all together?
What operating system should I choose?

Currently backing up all my files since btrfs cucked me. and it's a goddamned shame since btrfs raid6 was pretty much exactly what I wanted.

now I get to use ZFS and it's damned immutable vdevs

>>56006381
>running wangblows
You've never worked in the real world, have you?

>not clear what the fuck it's actually all doing
It's fucking spelled out...

>all those drives and not ZFS
Because it's running Storage Spaces. ZFS is was only enterprise ready on Solaris. And Solaris is owned by Oracle.

>>56006282
I deal with this on a daily basis. If I didn't, I'd be running something in a Node 304 with Open Media Vault.

>>56006946
>>not clear what the fuck it's actually all doing
>It's fucking spelled out...
You wrote what software each is running.
But what is the end purpose of all of it? What user-facing service is provided by all of it?

>>56002200
Nice repeating digits

Currently running:
Primary and Standby DNS with network level adblocking,
A custom home automation setup,
Network Attached Storage,
a Tor gateway,
Two VPNs (one to provide remote network access, the other to provide remote access to Tor),
An SSH gateway,
and a centralised git server for my personal projects

>>56007323
Nearly forgot, a seedbox as well

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>>56002352
in tha butt

I have a Synology DS216+ as "Homeserver":

I use the buildin VPN-Server (L2TP/IPSec) and have 3 Docker Containers:
Couchpotato
Sickbeard
Transmission

I've only enabled Samba with 2 Shares:
Media
Backup (On Site Backup/Time Machine)

Unfortunately my Server is not powerful enough to Stream with Plex.

HP proiant DL380 G5
2x Xeon E5345
32GB FBDDR2 Ram
8x 72gb 15k RPM SAS disks RAID 5
windows server 2008
-only gayme servers. runs idle most of the time.
have one more but no tasks for it

Dell poweredge T110 II
Xeon E3-1220
4GB ECC DDR3
4x300GB 15k SAS raid 0
windows server 2008
-web server, mail server, VPN server, RDP server, FTP server, file server.
also just sitting there most of the time, this is not enough to make it sweat.

Netgear ReadyNAS 102
1TB sata hdd (backing up the poweredge server raid)
1TB sata hdd (temporary data storage and torrents)

router is an apple airport extreme, and my switch is some shitty 5port TP link that i need to replace.


any ideas for features i can add to the servers? c:

what would be the minimum budget to setup a nice mediaserver+torrentbox? the features i need the most are expandable storage and low power consumption. would it be better to buy a used enterprise server and add storage? tia

>>56007680
>low power consumption
>buy a used enterprise server
kek

>>56007680
Lurk for itx boards with 10 or more sata connectors.

>>56006721
Should do fine, those tasks aren't very CPU intensive.

Any general purpose linux distro would work, I like debian.

>>56009356
Will it work as VPN client for full 100Mbits for example?

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Pic related.

But I'm searching for a new server which low electricity input and 24/7 running. It shouldn't be cost more than 450€. I want to run an CentOS with different VM's for OpenVPN, RADIUS, DNS, Icinga2, ...
Any tips or hardware guides? Iam a absolutly big fgt in pc/server hardware.

What do you do with an server?

>>56009450
Host meinkampf servur.

>>56003306
android vms, is it any good for testing app dev?

>>56006743
what did btrfs do

>>56003719
Then dont reply you fag.

>>56006946
>this guy is basically such a cuckold spineless unintelligible faggot in suck a monkey low position that he doesn't have the authority or ability to convince anyone that the light of FOSS is white and bright and that they're only wasting their money being raped by proprietary licensing fees since everyone designing the databases you use and administering the services on your network is more comfortable on FOSS because its what they learned in school and have to cripple their workflow by adapting it to that locked-down bullshit
How does your boss' cock in your ass feel, kiddo?

There is really no excuse to PAY for the WRONG tools for the job.
Fucking hell.

>>56003461
I world say: Yes. But if you're hungry for advanture then no :D

Best value server? Ideally less than $500.

>>56010205
an old pc.
saved you 500$

>>56010205
TS140 off ebay, add RAM and storage to taste.

>>56002200
Aussie50, I-Is that you?

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>46% faster than the rest of AU

Guys, I am planning to use a i7 6700 for transcoding in my HTPC

How much watts does the i7 6700 consume at idle?

>>56009447
Share your block list.

>>56010773
100% sure it's some generic hosts file ripped from ublock repos.

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>>56002200
Hey OP I use a GSA! I keep it in the garage and it does fine on 95 degree days (just as hot in the garage) and on -10 degree days (rarely below 45 in garage). It runs Proxmox and a few VMs. The main one is my media server running:

>sickbeard
>couchpotato
>sabnzdb
>deluged
>plex

I also have a Supermicro Atom D525 box running pfsense. Are you running pfsense in a VM on that same box? Mine has 10 nics so I could do that. For whatever reason pfsense seems to use a lot of KVM CPU even when idle so it brings the wattage on the GSA up about 50 watts, where as my Supermicro box only uses about 30 watts.

>>56011048
Are you fucking kidding me? I spend hours to set the list up from other hundreds list on the WWW and compile it in the right format.

>>56011851
>evidence autism at it's peak

>>56011851
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

>>56011917
Fuck yourself, fgt

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Specs:
Supermicro PDSMU
Xeon X3210 2.4Ghz
4GB RAM
4x2TB in RAID10

Used for:
RADIUS AAA, backups, webhost, seedbox, DNS server, OpenVPN, Tor relay, cjdns, and H@H.

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>>56010715
>Micropatchcable

>>56006282
>pleb
i just set up my raspi 3 as a webserver yesterday. dont sweat it kid.

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>>56010715

>>56011998
What you use RADIUS for?

>>56010715
Thanks God I live in the 3rd world. We got fiber and LTE in slums.

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>>56010715
stopit

>>56012052
Wireless network

>>56010127
the raid56 code just got a warning of multiple data loss bugs and they're telling anyone who's using it to stop

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>>56002200
old pic but still looks the same, just cleaner.
>plex
>storage
>printer
>facebook/youtube/email.

>>56012903
and my second server for "heavier" tasks
it's not currently being used that much anymore but i have plans for it.

>used to have custom loop (is in my main pc now)
>havent taken speccy pic so...
CPU: 4670k delidded with Coollaboratory liquid ultra.
GPU: Sapphire 390 (put it in this because i got a 1080 in my main)
MOBO: Gigabyte UD5H Z87
RAM: 2x4gb Corsair Dominator 2400mhz
SOUND CARD: Asus Xonar D2 (upgraded my mobo, no PCI slots)
OS: 120gb kingston SSD - Win 8.1

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>>56013375
i added pic but
>4cheeky.org

>>56010168
Anon, you should really leave your parents basement once in a while. It's a brave new world out there...

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>1 to 15k machines just to store porn and watch movies in annoying ways

>>56012903
I'm jealous of the Quadro.

>>56013611
>look at this /v/tard who cant resolder couple of resistors on a gtx card
fucking newrmies rrreee

>>56013611
you better fucking be.
i bought the entire computer for 108$ - 97£
was originally a FX 4600 ? in it i think. and when i came to pick it up the guy was like: idk if dis werk, u kan haev 4 free :))) " and he handed me the 4800.

best deal ever.
oh and i forgot, it has a 60gb intel SSD for boot.

What OS do you guys run on your servers? I used Debian for a few years, but switched to Arch when we last replaced some of our home servers. It's been pleasant having an experience closer to what I get on my desktop now.

I've been hearing good things about GuixSD and NixOS lately, so I might try them in a VM to see if they're any good for my needs.

>>56013681
For non Windows stuff I use Open Media Vault, and working on CentOS as a load balancer.

But really, if it does what you want it to do, that's really all that matters.

>>56013648
That doesn't do things like uncripple FP64 or install ECC RAM.
>>56013668
That's a good deal, Anon.
>>56013681
I use CentOS for production and Ubuntu for shit I need up quickly.

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>>56013521
It's worth it

I've got a proliant dl360g5 with dual e5450s and 8gb ram, I've got windows 7 pro on it at the moment while I just fuck around with it in my room. I plan on moving it into the atic soon and putting windows server 2012r2 on it.

I plan to use it for game servers like minecraft, a vpn and a file/streaming server.
are there any good windows applications for streaming movies and file server applications?

>>56013725
I think we tried Open Media Vault at one point and had issues. Same with Proxmox. That's actually how we settled on plain old Debian.

I just rsync a bunch of my media-related folders from my desktop to our file server periodically. For watching stuff from the file server on a laptop, I just use sshfs to mount the folder with anime and such. Used to use nfs and the regular mount command, but I've found sshfs works a bit better.

Haven't yet worked out a way to comfortably torrent right on the servers. I like to rename my files in my bittorrent client, so rtorrent might not work that well. I currently use transmission on my desktop and just copy over files as a backup and to make them accessible to others.

I want a webserver that I can access from anywhere. All I want to do is store movies and stuff on it. Do I really need to build a rig? Or can I just use a raspberry pi and hook up some hard drives? I'm not looking to stream from the server, just download.

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>>56007680
Something like this is fine if you're not looking for a lot of cpu power. Quad core embedded low power Intel chip.

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>>56006020
jealous as fuck t b h

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>>56002200
>this shit
>yellow
WTF

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>>56006020
>less than 160 cores
>less than 1TB RAM
I think you need to leave.

>>56014485
I know rite. He should add a window and blue leds.

>>56014093
firstly, what a waste. secondly, see below. thirdly, ditch windows.

>>56014188
bring up a vm and install the following. these all work headless and have a web interface so they're ideal for running on a server. they're also all in aur so it's a really easy install on arch. don't fall for the "arch is unstable" meme, it's bullshit.
>nzbget (or transmission if you insist on using torrents in $current_year)
>couchpotato
>sonarr

>>56014217
>movies
emby
>stuff
owncloud

>>56014510
Capping the DL980 G7 from work doesn't quite cut it for home server threads...

>>56014557
>don't fall for the "arch is unstable" meme, it's bullshit.
I know. I've used Arch for a couple years now.

>nzbget
>couchpotato
>sonarr

thanks for the recs my dude

>>56013681
I've been using Debian. It's stable, and I'm used to it.

>>56014646
One of my biggest issues with debian was that termite wasn't in the repos, and computers without termite installed don't recognize it for some reason, so if you ssh in from termite it fucks up. Had to keep doing

export TERM=xterm

before connecting.

I've read about securing your server on the wiki, and the wikipedia article on DMZs.

A few newbie questions here:

1- Any reason to care about what domain registrar I use?
2- Is GoDaddy's optional privacy-service to hide my personal info just a DMZ? It doubles the yearly costs in my case.
2.5- As I've understood it I can setup a DMZ for free without much hassle, so this is a shitty deal right?

>>56014807
1 - No, not really. Some suck especially bad. GoDaddy isn't the best, but far from the worst.
2 - Privacy guard hides your information in a whois query. I have it on a couple of my testing domains
2.5 - DMZ's can complicate setups. If you have a torrent box in a DMZ, and have an open file share to your internal network, you might as well just put the torrent box behind the firewall. As for domain privacy, see answer #2 above.

>>56009447
did you set the list on it just to block ads or am i missing something?

>>56014560
Don't think that's a 980, don't those have E7-4xxx CPUs for tri QPI links?

>>56002200
I have an Atom D525 running Arch with my patented NAED (nonredundant array of expensive disks).

I use it to download and serve media. I've been meaning to set up network UPS tools and use it to tell other devices on my network when to shut down.

I'd also like to upgrade it to a beefier chip when something good with a <20W TDP comes out that isn't too expensive.

I have a hackintosh that I actually hook up to my TV that I can game on and everything.

>>56015466
http://ark.intel.com/products/53578/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E7-2870-30M-Cache-2_40-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

The only way it's possible to get 80 cores from an E7-2870 is 8 sockets.

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First time linux servering, how badly did i do? I'm going to try to figure out how to remote compile shit on this from visual studio
The graphics card is for OpenCL calculations btw

>>56015571
Hm, I thought Ex-2xxx could only scale to 2 sockets.

>>56015821
Ahh, I see. It's the E5-xxxx that scales to two. The E7-xxxx scales beyond that.

>>56015894
Way to have a confusing as fuck naming convention, Intel. So what the fuck is the difference between the E7-2xxx and E7-4xxx?

I have a ~4 year old Asus ROG laptop with an i7 processor (I don't remember the exact model off the top of my head) with a 1 TB HDD and an empty bay I could put another drive in. What would be the most use I could get out of it as a server?

At the moment I just have it sharing some folders with movies and TV shows through windows

>>56015938
Interesting.

E7-2xxx - 2 socket
E7-4xxx - 4 socket
E7-8xxx - 8 socket

Which means that the CPU configuration in >>56014510 is not possible.

Guess I need to pay closer attention.

>>56002200
I currently have a 4TB drive in my server with ~1.7TB of media. I use NFS for mounting the media on my GNU/Linux desktop, and it also runs a SAMBA server. I set up Emby on it for streaming to mobile devices and I am going to set up a media center. I have it connected to a UPS right now, and eventually I want to set up a RAID, but I don't really have enough data to justify that. I store my Clonezilla backups on the server as well.

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>>56016068

>>56016051
YOU MEAN SOMEONE WAS LYING ON 4CHAN????

>>56016208
I know, right?

That like, never happens, ever...

>Pentium M 1.73Ghz
>500MB RAM
>60GB internal + 2TB external
>AMD Mobility Radeon X300
>actually an old laptop with a fucked screen
>runs rtorrent and dropbox
>has a network share with music I torrented for my parents so they can play it on their Sonos
>has speakers connected to play music
>sometimes use it as an alarm clock (mpg123(1) and at(1))

I have a Dell Vostro 200 that I want to hook up on my TV and use it to play music and video.

Could I potentially use it as a server? What are some things that you can do with a server?

Ok, I find myself needing a home server (or more realistically a couple)

What it/they need/s to be able to do:
Host several (many) Java based game servers
Host 4 physics rich game servers (space engineers and medieval engineers)
Ingest video
egest video
Transcode video
Host my website (currently down, don't ask), and all it's related stuff (forums, etc)
File server
Seed box
Host several other games
Host the mud im working on
IRC bouncer
IRC server
Rendering
Some other thing I haven't thought of yet.

I need to be able to keep running with two drive failures and have striped and mirrored drives (I'm horrible with remembering all the raid configurations)
4x1GBPS or higher Ethernet adapters
A 256k modem adapter
VGA (or compatible) output for setup and mucking with stuff

As I anticipate this being a couple servers, I'd also need a rack and a rack switch and UPS setup for the rack. I'll also end up rack mounting my new PC when I get to that, so I'll need 3u left for that.

Also, I'd rather keep the budget as low as I can. Location us-east

>>56018232
Are you making money off this?

>>56018269
Currently, no. Will I be afterwards, probably. The dosh stopped trickling in the $3.07 that I earned in 4 years) when all my current pcs died from over use of trying to do all that, + play games, and stream off of 2 laptops (8 gigs and 4 gigs) and an old dell octiplex running XP with half a gig of ram.

I plan on dedicating all my spare time to my various projects though, and having my own hardware will lessen long term expenses, especially since 10 gig fiber to door internet is available in my area.

>>56018433
I would definitely not a run this in my house, get a rack in a datacenter. People WILL be pissed if you make them pay for something as unreliable as something hosted at your house will be.

>>56018594
I'll have failover in a datacenter on a couple VPSs. MS azure only charges for use.

I still want the main where I can personally handle ops. Uptime for the local fiber provider is 99.9999%, and with backup power on my end, there should theoretically only be downtime when I take stuff down, or half the country is without internet.

Plus, alot of data centers these days don't have dial in access, and well, I want dial in access for nostalgia on bbs/mud.

>>56002200
Hey
I want to buy a cheap little motherboard like the raspberry pie that I can use as a dns server to block ads on my home network
what's the cheapest one to buy

>>56019006
Keep your nerd BBS bullshit at home and put the important stuff in a datacenter. A good datacenter is going to have way better redundancy and uptime than you could ever hope to have at home without spending tons of money to basically have yourself living in one.

>>56019025
You can use basically any computer to do that. Unfortunately the 5 dollar Pi doesn't have ethernet, so you'd be force to get the more expensive version. If you don't mind the lack of ethernet and are ok with WiFi, I'd just root an old Android phone and use that.

>>56019025
>>56019047
If you block ads through this method, will shitty sites like Hulu still make videos not work until I unblock them?

>>56019047
Neat. I have an old droid 4 laying around with cyanogenmod on it.
I have 3 people on my home network, would the microusb/wifi of the phone hinder us?

>>56019006
And besides, publicly accessible, there is nothing people would be paying for. Transcoding and egress would be for my local use and sending stuff to YouTube and streaming sites, my website has no charge to access, and the game servers have no access charge. Only thing publically that would charge would be dial in to the bbs/mud, but telnet access to that would be free, and a custom instance of my chat bot (which already would be offsite).

>>56019027
I'm totally fine with living in a personal datacenter. The electronic hum sooths me (unless it is that loud ass shrill buzz that dieing CRTs make)
Plus, no data center can reliably offer the 99.9999% uptime local fiber provider can.

>>56019110
MicroUSB doesn't really have anything to do with it, the Wi-Fi shouldn't really be a problem if you're already ok with the latency of Wi-Fi. If you set it up to do caching then it'll eventually be faster than reaching out to root nameservers all the time anyway.

>>56019113
So what you're saying is basically that, no, you will be making no money off of this at significant expense to yourself? Well, have fun, then. You'll find people will still bitch about free services, though.

>>56019027
In addition,
>using nerd as an insult on a technology image board....

>>56019174
>Plus, no data center can reliably offer the 99.9999% uptime local fiber provider can.
Hahahahahaha. 4 nines.

>>56019196
Hell, I already hate humanity, they can't do any worse than working two years in foodservice did.

>>56019216
Considering that same fiber network makes all the traffic lights in the metro area work, and makes sure everyone has power, yes, 4 9s

>>56019276
That's nothing, and it's still not redundant. I highly doubt that your traffic lights are centrally controlled and do nothing locally.

>>56016051
I'm pretty sure it's a cluster. Look at he blank, it says "CPU 0 Node 5". Look like it's more than one machine

>>56019297
On the outskirts, yea, there are a lot of self contained lights, in the city proper though, there are maybe 3 control boxes, and the rest of the lights and crossing warnings are centrally controlled.

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my piddly 8 thread/16gb server

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>>56009797
Not really I just like playing around in Android on modern PC specs.

>>56010137
Eat a dick faggot

>>56011496
Exactly the same servers I love the GSA's if I coulda gotten my hands on one I would have.

>>56012903
I use mine for printer sharing aswell but I don't feel that's important.

>>56014485
GSA's my boy.

>>56014539 Not ricing it. The front bezel screen already idles blue and turns orange when there is an error.

>>56016068
Going to add 4x2TB drives in 2 RAID 1 banks (I like my redundancy)

>>56016795
I setup a Vostro 200 for my dad, unless you do a Core 2 swap they fucking blow, luckily I got him a nice Core 2 Duo

>>56019025
Personally get an old shit box PC that's low power and throw pfSense on it, you can get packages that block ads on a network level.


Image: 2 other PowerEdges I used to use at my old job.

>>56020433
>GSA
At my high school GSA was the "Gay Straight Alliance", so all I can think of when that acronym is used are those homosexuals.

>>56020465
same

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OP again
Posting another photo of the Power Edge

>Guts

>>56020465
>>56020472
Google Search Appliance, that's what we're referring to.

>>56020497
thanks

Why are people still using 10th generation Dell servers in 2016?

>>56020497
To avoid confusion we could refer to it as BSA - Botnet Surveillance Appliance.

>>56002200
For some reason my first thought, looking at that thing, is Spongebob.

>>56020524
Good hardware 2950's are Intel Xeon based and 2970's are AMD Opteron based, plus you can pick up old GSA boxes pretty cheap for the power they offer.

>>56020529
Oh stop it you...

>>56020535
It's in a pineapple under the sea.

>>56020555
they're awful power hungry crap. you can buy socket 1366 servers for 100 dollars or less, these days.

>>56020433
How decent would it be if I throw in a C2D? They are like 5 bucks so I can easily throw one in.

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>>56020627
That's what you think.

Image: 48GB DDR based system.

>>56020703
>That's what you think.
no, those are plain facts.

>>56002200
I have a few

AM1 Box "DryBones" running ESXi 6.0
AMD Athlon 5350
16GB DDR3
32GB FDD boot drive

Optiplex 760 "CrapNAS" running Ubuntu 16.04 for NFS
C2D E8400 @3Ghz
2GB DDR2
32GB FDD boot
2TB HDD storage

RaspPi Model B for PiHole + DNS

The ESXi hosts:
Plex VM
Private FTP
Torrent VM
OpenVPN
Printserver
Minecraft server
And multiple Windows Server 2012 installs for my MCSA studies

>>56020697
My fathers Vostro 200 plays 1080p YouTube videos and 720p mp4's via Plex with no transcoding with a 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB of the highest supported DDR2 and a little 512MB AMD video card slightly OCed 30MHz on the core and 80MHz on the memory

>>56020795
I will probably upgrade it and give it these same specs, C2D has aged very well, i'm sure it would run most normal tasks decently.

>>56020793
Hey how good is a PiHole? I have become interested in making one.

>>56020726
It handles what I do perfectly and I have seen no dramatic power difference in my bill, maybe a $6 increase at most. And it seems other like them too. So do me a favor and go piss off to another thread.

>>56020795
That's way overkill for that stuff, an E-240 laptop will play 720p mp4s.

>>56020862
Whatever nigga, you waste your money.

No one else should buy those trash heaps, though.

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>>56020840
Be aware the Vostro 200 does support 2 different Core 2 Quads aswell.

Image: A neat little workstation I came across once.

>>56020943
That's not a workstation, it was for gaming. XPS 700 or something? I really wanted one back then.

Hey, how about you fuckin pay attention to me instead of this bullshit.

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>>56020943
Not mines, the Vostro came with 2 different models of the Foxconn motherboards, sadly mines doesn't support it.

I like those. This is my workstation, love the 7010.

>>56020906
The Core 2 Duo has to pick up the slack for the little video card.

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So how viable would using a old gaming PC for a media server be?

I built it with a:
i5-3570k
7950 GPU (Would sell if I don't need)
8gb ddr4 ram
1x 128gb SSD
2x 2TB hard drives

I don't know the first thing about servers but would really like to learn and do some tinkering myself.

Any advice would be great.

>>56020997
It really doesn't.

>>56020998
3570k is missing a ton of features, most importantly VT-d. So if you want to pass through a device, besides USB or serial, like that 7950 to a VM that's not going to happen. You don't have DDR4, either. For a plain media server you won't have a problem, there's plenty of power.

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>>56021016
> if you want to pass through a device, besides USB or serial, like that 7950 to a VM that's not going to happen.

I'm retarted, explain please.

>You don't have DDR4, either.

You're right I just checked the old order paper, see above, i'm retarted.

>>56020960
Xeons are for gaming?
>Xeon
>Loaded with 1TB Caviar Greens
>Multiple gigabit NIC's
>Low end Quadro cards
>Gaming

>>56020969
I feel for you the Foxconn boards are quite nice

PS the Vostro 200 SFF PSU's are shit

>>56014510
>using a pic with dozens of jewgle image results of something you dont own

>>56020862
>It handles what I do perfectly and I have seen no dramatic power difference in my bill, maybe a $6 increase at most.
You're full of shit my dual Xeon 2660v2s with 160GB RAM across 16 DIMMs do 300 watts idle and >900 watts under full load with 2x GTX 980s, 8x SSDs and 8x HDDs. At $0.12 per kWh that worked out to $30 a month idle and $100 under full load. The only thing which would increase your power bill by $6 per month would be an Atom "server".

>>56021086
Really? How shit?

>>56021036
If that's in there it definitely did not come with that. The XPS 700 came with Core 2 CPUs, GTX cards, and a single port 10/100/1000 NIC from the nVidia chipset.

>>56021091
>my dual Xeon 2660v2s with 160GB RAM across 16 DIMMs do 300 watts idle and >900 watts under full load with 2x GTX 980s, 8x SSDs and 8x HDDs
>2x GTX 980s, 8x SSDs and 8x HDDs

I got 3 disks that power off 90% of the time (active from 11:30AM to 10:30PM) and onboard graphics

Also your PSU(s) are considerably higher wattage aswell.

>>56021111
Shitty enough when his PSU died I didn't want to buy the SFF power supply so I put it in a normal mATX case.

>>56021036
>Xeons are for gaming?
yes

>>56021178
>I got 3 disks that power off 90% of the time
and my HDDs spin down too. last time i ran open hardware monitor, under prime95, the memory controllers on the CPUs took up the majority of the power for the CPUs. There is no way in fuck that thing costs you $6 per month unless it is powered off 20 hours per day

>>56021137
That's what came out when we parted her out, all my guys had a laptop where they recorded the parts pulled from each system they did. Aswell as the POD sheet (Proof of Destruction) sheet to be included with the recording of the drive(s) being shredded.

>>56021223
I'm not going to bother with you anymore. I have no reason to share my thoughts on it's power usage being I don't give a flying fuck, it does what I want it to do and it does it pretty fucking well. Too many variables to care in it's calculation on power draw.

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>>56021294
>Too many variables to care in it's calculation on power draw.
No there aren't, its pretty fucking simple, get a UPS or PDU which isnt a piece of shit and it will tell you. Pic related, my SmartUPS 3000 and server

>>56021225
I won't tell you you're wrong but you're wrong. Maybe it was a custom machine from Dell, but it wasn't generally available with that configuration. Dell workstations were call Precision. XPS was the high end consumer line.

>>56021034
>> if you want to pass through a device, besides USB or serial, like that 7950 to a VM that's not going to happen.
>
>I'm retarted, explain please.
If you want to use virtual machines and have them take advantage of all the hardware in the machine, you'll be limited due to the CPU not supporting VT-d. This means you couldn't passthrough the GPU and get native performance, for example. I'm not sure why he brought this up, considering you didn't mention anything about virtual machines.

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>>56021319
It's old SmartUPS 750 had 3 of 5 LEDs lit with the modem attached, so let's say 350W at idle (being it's idle for about the 12hrs a day it's actually on (sleeps for the other 12hrs when nobody is using it and a wake timer wakes it at 11:30AM everyday) Using a shitty calculator I found online I get about $15 a month extra.

Again fuck off.

>>56020840
I have become so used to not seeing ads after setting Pi Hole up months ago that I thought the machine at my new job had adware on it after going to a few sites

What's a good mini itx case that can fit 4 3.5 HDDs and NOT cost a fuckton of money? Unas looks the nicest so far, but it's $150. Not a huge fan of the bitphoenix's look, and it's also $80.

So I'm thinking of getting a home server, you guys think I should pick up a used power edge server?

>>56021427
What CPUs are in it?

>>56021472
Damn lmao. Is there any issues with bandwidth or anything like that? One thing I didn't like was no HTTPS connection, but I guess it would be good to block ads on my phone or other mobile devices.

>>56021352
I looked up images of the inside of the system you stated and it is indeed the same, maybe it was custom? It also had 6GB of RAM aswell.

>>56021494
2.2GHz Opteron Quad Cores

I forget the exact model and I don't feel like looking it up. It's a Socket F though.

>>56021575
Those are 95W chips, there is no way a quad socket box is 350 watts.

>>56021649
It's a dual socket box nim rod.

>>56021649
I looked them up, they are 75W chips
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819105194

I use an original xbox running linux

>>56021670
This is a dual socket >>56020703

>>56006641
You forgot to mention Autism

>>56021692
>I looked them up, they are 75W chips
95 watts retard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Opteron_microprocessors#Opteron_2300-series_.22Barcelona.22_.2865_nm.29

>>56021754
BAHAHA

>Image: 48GB DDR based system

The 2 systems are totally different, I was replying with another find from the days at my old job. There are quite the few, get with the program man... I stated I only have a PowerVault 725N and a Power Edge 2970, does that look like my 2970 in any way or form?

>>56021765
Ouch I'm the retard?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power

>THERMAL

>TDP is heat

>>56005967
>crashplan
BANE?

>>56021754
For the reference I believe this was an old P3 box or an old AMD box either one, real big bitch, weighed quite the bit too.

>>56021790
>does that look like my 2970 in any way or form?
do you think i know what old as shit dells look like on the inside? You started replying to a post about old dell systems with that pic. Its not my fault you're unable to communicate effectively.

>>56021832
l2thermodynamics, it can't generate more heat than it consumes in electricity retard.

>>56002200
That's a really nice number

and 56002207 is prime

>>56015791
>nice name nick

>>56021832
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power
Did you even read your link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power
>The TDP is typically not the largest amount of heat the CPU could ever generate (peak power), such as by running a power virus, but rather the maximum amount of heat that it would generate when running "real applications." This ensures the computer will be able to handle essentially all applications without exceeding its thermal envelope, or requiring a cooling system for the maximum theoretical power (which would cost more but in favor of extra headroom for processing power).[2]
>Some sources state that the peak power for a microprocessor is usually 1.5 times the TDP rating.

fail2ban isn't preventing log ins. I intentionally entered the incorrect password from my phone to see if it worked and it reported the ban in the log, yet i can still connect when i eventually enter the actual password.

I am using the ban action: iptables-multiport which should prevent me even attempting to log in

>>56006721
The whole IT dept. at my Uni uses Gentoo server and they love it

Not even memes, although they do shitpost on /g/ for lols

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Nothing too special, especially when compared to >>56006020. It runs pfSense in a VM, ownCloud, as well as irssi in a tmux with SSH connectivity. The 950 and sound card are there for gaymes. Also makes a great place to store backups.

>>56023117
If you have a 2012 R2 Datacenter key, use that instead of 2008 R2, because AVMA.

>>56023239
I'm actually planning on upgrading to 2016 once that officially releases. As a university student I get free keys for Microsoft software.

>>56021862
Come again?

Why VMs? What's the purpose?

>>56023304
Personally, I spin things up in VMs for stability purposes, that way I can experiment with changes to an existing service without necessarily interrupting my current usage of that service

>>56018232
So no one going to recommend hardware to me?

>>56023484
Dell PE R710
HP DL380 G6

>>56009471
how many gigabytes of wam do i need?

Is there any security reason not to go with a single-card computer for a mail-server with some light cloud hosting?

The alternative would be buying a PSU and using old hardware lying around, but the used PSUs I find will end up costing me about the same and I would prefer a fanless/noiseless setup.

I've read the wiki, and searching found me many helpful links, I'm just looking for as much input as I can get.

>>56025595
It's worth noting that I'll need a Raspberry Pi next year for a course, so that would be a failsafe purchase in case I decide the maintenance is too much effort.

I also want to add that I'm into the whole suckless.org principle about software simplicity, even though it seems to be a meme on /g/.

>>56003461
nah. just use NAT.

>>56025436
>>56025472
>>56025595
>>56025608
If you retyped your post, why did you separate it into two posts again?

>>56025935
Because one is just additional shit that isn't really needed to answer the question, but I didn't want my post to look too long, as to intice more readers :^)

I also didn't want two addition-posts.

I would have gotten away with it too, If it wasn't for that filthy necromancy that is 4chan-X.

>>56021564
Yea, it was not able to accept 6GB. I don't know what you saw, then. Dell never made a workstation in that case, officially, and BTX motherboards are fairly had to come by. Perhaps the Precisions at the time were using BTX boards that fit in the XPS 700 and that's what you saw.

>>56025595
Do NOT host mail from a residential IP address, it's not worth it at al.

I have an idea, but no clue how to execute it. I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction/give basic tips. No need to spoonfeed me about it, but simple pointers would help.

>(pirated) media files on a ~2TB cloud, hosted from home
>able to stream files via encrypted web domain

This part isn't exactly home server related but; Is it possible to, say, connect to my mates network and log in to my cloud there, without exposing my keyfile/passphrase/whatever to the net admin? Would that depend on my portable?

>>56026405
Probably won't work anyways. Most of them are blocked for spam by major email providers.

>>56005988
>drives angled toward the left panel even though the right panel is just as accessible on fractal design cases... or any case made after 2004 for that matter

Why?

>>56028832
Yes, that is why it's not worth it. It'll work, but you'll spend your life dealing with spam blacklists and actual spam spewing from your compromised mail servers.

Where's a good place besides jewbay to get old enterprise class servers (e.g., hp, dell, etc.)?

>>56006081
The clocks ticking I just count the hour

>>56030230
dafuq?

>>56029918
Government or university surplus stores.

>>56030453
how do find those?

>>56030543
they generally sell their shit on ebay

>>56030543
Search Google maps for "surplus". Large cities usually have a few owned by universities or even the city government.

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>>56030311
[Chorus:]
No one man should have all that power
The clocks tickin' I just count the hours
Stop trippin' I'm tripping off the power
(21st century Schizoid Man)

Sorry I'm easily distracted and wanted to sing along.

>>56030942
No worries. Still processing morning caffeine.

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Just a Dell Precision T3500 that I got off of ebay.
Plex, FTP, Voicemail, backup, blah.

What's a good value hp/dell server for pfsense?

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Nothing fancy. Buts its home.

>>56031432
I like those prints man.
Also, I hate these home routers that are wall mountable, but the cables and antennas are on the same side. My Asus does the same thing.

>>56031242
ML10 or T110.

>>56026393
According to Dell spec sheets it came with 2GB of DDR2 RAM and support 8GB max

Even then maybe so I do believe the big boss had a precision that was BTX I remember he had a hard time installing a water block for a water cooling system pull from my old office/"cage" PC

> "cage" PC being I spent most of my time in a fenced off "office" I made behind where we kept pallets of PC's, working floor was unbeaeably hot so I rabn water cooling in my Core 2 Quad workstation considering the servers were in the main office with AC. Funny thing is it ran a 50/50 mix of water and white can Monster Absolute Zero, worked good mang.