>he doesn't have a home server Summer's over lads.

>live in australia
>0.8 upload speed

b-but I do
I host my website on it, and occasionally post it here

>>56557315
give me 1 good reason to use it.

Why would I have a home server? What advantages would it offer over the cloud?

>>56557353
>We're sorry, we're performing maintenance at the moment. Please try again in a few hours.

>>56557331
post it then

I want to see it

>>56557353
>what is fun

Wtf would I serve up, and to whom? I literally never leave my room. Leave me alone, anime girl.

>>56557369
What sort of shitty cloud company are you using? AWS had a total downtime of 150 minutes through all of 2015. I guarantee you that that's much better than any residential ISP.

>>56557353
hosting anything you want for remote access without dropbox or whoever else removing it for whatever reason (maybe they run an analysis on all the files and find your content is copyrighted, or illegal, or whatever).

you can run whatever you want (e.g. node js, LAMP, etc...) without having to ask for permission, check prices, and all that junk.

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i have 2

>>56557376
It's just a meme website, there's not much there but a webm of an anime with meme subs, a basic 8ball app I made to learn SQL, and a pizza dough recipe, each completely unlinked from any of the others

>>56557326
>HOME server
>HOME

>>56557393
Here's another example
>power goes out in the area
>fire up generator
>still have access to everything

>>56557315
My main is my server and I remote into my workstation.

>>56557405
then link all three DUH

>>56557402
neat

I have an old dell power that I can't use because it's missing a fan so it doesn't throttle them it's just full speed jet plane volume at all times

>>56557413
thought a home server was a server at home you access from elsewhere
this is even more useless

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>>56557381

>>56557441
poweredge*

woop

>>56557428
>power goes out in the area
>not even at home, want to connect to my IRC bouncer
>can't because server died
Some people leave their mom's basements every once in a while.

>>56557444
it can be

>>56557444
it doesn't have to be friend

however your connection would be fine for an autistic personal website that gets 1 visitor per month

>>56557467
or to host a hook and steal the porn your friend made with his girlfriend :3

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Home server is literally the new "Install gentoo" meme, and I'm not falling for this one.

>>56557441
https://nonfree.pizza
The original reason for the site

https://nonfree.pizza/8ball.php
A persistent magic 8ball that remembers past answers

https://nonfree.pizza/recipes/dough
And a simple FLOSS pizza dough recipe I transcribed

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>>56557492
>he doesn't host his own website

get a load of this dumb faggot

>>56557315
For what purpose?

My home server is a netbook

>>56557405
https://nonfree.pizza/
Love your site bro.

>>56557492
you're right, considering my pc is on 24/7 and i share 4 of my 6 hdd's anyway and have sftp setup

>>56557405
>>56557505
kek

>>56557532
T-thanks, I'm thinking of doing something with it, I'm not sure what though

Do you guys have an own domain? Also why pay for energy if you can host on herokuapp etc?

>>56557532
https://nonfree.pizza/hook.js

I finally got an amazing job, and I built my comically overpowered rig of my childhood dreams.

This was probably a bad investment.

But this 64 Ram 60TB of storage beast is the centerpiece of my house and my life.

Its a home server, and everything else.

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>>56557505
>tfw the botnet wants me to starve

>>56557558
Host my shit

>>56557643
Sure bro, how much are you offering

>>56557651
10 hits/month

>>56557450
Kanon?

>>56557656
"no"

>Optiplex 755 SFF with a 1tb WD Green i got for free from my grandpa

It works as a place for backups and for keks im running a eurobeat radio thing on YT from it.

>>56557505
what made you choose nginx

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>>56557505
>Will I ever get laid?

>>56557695
It seemed simple enough to set up and it appeared less bloated than Apache at first glance
>>56557711
You can copy the URL and it'll embed the question when people visit it:
https://nonfree.pizza/8ball.php?q=Will+I+ever+get+laid%3F

My home server is literally just a 6 year old laptop that I don't use anymore with ubuntu slapped on it.

I host a few personal sites and a 4chan archive on it, works surprisingly well.

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>>56557315
Behemoth in the back is a thinkstation 2x X5675 Xeons, 48 GB of RAM, and 4x8 TB drives w/ btrfs RAID10. I run plex, host stuff, and use it for torrenting. Little guy on the speaker is a pfsense router, and the switches go with it. Tiny laptop on the desk is an x220 running hardened-gentoo for fun. I also have another desktop to the left with a shitton of storage for torrenting. Besides the x220 everything I have runs arch.

>inb4 arch on a server
It just werks

owo where you got that little lenovo guy from

as a normie, what can I do with a home server?

>>56558065
Take the power cord and hang yourself with it

>>56558065
backup data you dont wanna lose

download EVERYTHING because why not?

host websites for fun, host a media server

>>56558065
Host a website for fun.
Host a website with content on it.
Host a service.
Heat a space.

The possibilities are endless.

>>56558065
store all your personal iphone sex videos

I don't need cloud shit or anything, why would I pay money for a NAS I'm never going to use? Shit, I don't even have any HDDs, my 250GB SSD is enough.

How much would a home server only being used for ssh cost per month? The hardware is a pentium 4.

>>56558146
You could run ssh on a rpi at 4 W. In most civilized countries that much electricity would cost pennies a day.

I just realized that remote streaming shit to my tiny chromebook is actually somewhat feasible now so I'm sort of interested in this kind of nerd shit

But I don't know how to make the leap from "wannabe power user" to beyond. I barely know how VPNs work.

So right now I'm using Google Drive for cloud shit but I don't even know if I could switch fully to my own stuff. I'd want to have access to shared files between my desktop, my chromebook, and my phone from preferably anywhere.

Any advice or should I just go read some unix commands and get bored and forget about it?

>>56558146
what kind of fucking question is that?

>>56558169
samba share. Look it up, if your desktop runs windows its as easy as just toggling it on on the folders you want to share.

>>56558169
Just dive right in, if you want to learn how to set up a VPN then check out OpenVPN, learn how to set up an ovpn server and just do it. Then look into running an sftp server through ssh, or some sort of samba/nfs type set up.

I was a unix pleb around a year and a half ago and I learned just by doing. There are great tutorials all over the internet for this shit.

>>56558158
My power assoc. charges around ~9 cents per kWh.

a rpi running at constant 4W, 24/7, would cost me a whole $3 per year

>>56558052
It's a ThinkCentre
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-tiny/

>>56558216
see the problem is I don't even know what a VPN is useful for other than maybe a layer of connection privacy. And I don't even know what sftp is for.

But I guess I can RTFM and look those up and just try installing OpenVPN.

Last time I tried to "learn by doing" though I was fucking around with Plex and now I have a DLNA server that refuses to leave my network and I don't even know how to uninstall it.

Nigger I'm a fucking poorfag I can't afford all this shit.

>>56558257
man that lopoks compfy as fuck pham

>>56558283
you can do this with a $10 goodwill computer

anything made in the last two decades with a ethernet port is fine

>>56558271
sftp = file transfer, kind of like downloading and uploading files off of dropbox except you do it on your own server instead

what OS did you install plex on?

>>56558271
I thought all you had to do for Plex was basically install it then log into it through a web browser and setup your folders and shit?
I used to have it installed on my laptop and would just stream shit to my Chromecast.

>>56557353
>the butt
You're too stupid to understand even if you were told.

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I have a home server to train neural networks remotely on the server GPU and also to serve media on my local network with minidlna. I learned a lot configuring this bad boy =).

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>>56558311
>>56558311
It was on a totally different computer, probably my Windows Vista box.

It's still here on the network on my new tower. And I thought I already factory reset the router once. It's haunting me

>>56558321
hey, the butt is perfectly serviceable for a majority of users. Plenty of people are satisfied with the butt. The butt fits their usage needs completely.

>>56558400
are those two huge adapters used for your headphones?

>>56557315
I have a NAS which had a hardware fault (failure in motherboard) after 4 years. Luckily I got a replacement and got it running again, but I've been looking to acquire a proper server and back up to it, and then phase out my NAS. Probably a tower because I don't have a rack to put a rack chassis in.

Is there a good guide on long-lived hardware?

>>56558426
HAHAHHA, no, my mac still have the normal jack.

>>56558450
just use a good power supply, not "expensive", but nothing chinese or gamer brand.

they use cheap components that degrade and low voltage among other things like to make boards burn up

>>56557315
I have 3 now. The original Dell PowerEdge T620, and I pulled two DL380 G5's out of the closet for some testing.

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.
3TB 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.

HP DL380 G5 (2x 5450 / 64GB / 8x 300GB)
These run ESXi 5.5 and the VM's are running MacOS so I can do some group policy testing.


I'm thinking about replacing the DL380's with some R610's. The 400GB Pliant Lightning's are cheap enough now that they might be a better option than buying new SSD's.

>>56558496
I'm also looking for someone with more power though. It's an ARM board which only does average things, but I frequently want to have a remote Linux desktop, support on-the-fly transcoding, etc... which it doesn't do.

I can try and find maybe a PS for it that might last, too.

>>56558577
holy shit

and here i am sitting and thinking if i should spend a hundred bucks to make a server out of my rpi

how much do you think you've spent on this, so far?

>>56558409
I'm a fucking hurrdurr, this isn't the Plex server it's some out-of-the-box DLNA "ReadyShare" thing that comes on Netflix routers.

I should turn this shit off, yes?

>>56558620
>make a server out of my rpi
I have two Pi's running Windows, and they make fantastic file share witness servers for my Exchange cluster.

But a good place to start might be phpsysinfo and smokeping against something like Google's DNS (8.8.8.8) and Level 3's DNS(4.2.2.2/3/4)

>how much do you think you've spent on this, so far?
I'm about $1900 into the T620's hardware. The software is part of my MSDN subscription that I get from work, so that's covered.

If I wasn't using the T620 as a lab for work, I'd likely be running something like a ProLiant Micro.

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work in progress, need to buy some drives

I have absolutely no use for a home server

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>>56558865
What case is that? Is that one of those intel atom quad/8 core models embedded? How is it if it is?

Pic related is my media server. Running Windows 7 Pro. I just copy and paste new content to both my 4TB drives whenever I make new stuff. Windows Backup tool a shit.

>>56557315

My server is just has a single 1TB drive. I use it as a seedbox since I recently upgraded my Internet (200/50), and god does it feel good. Also for OpenVPN and BTsync

>>56558409

>BLADEWOLF

wow super cool are you a hacker

>>56558920
LIAN LI PC-Q26A with asrock c2750d4i.
Planning on using six 4TB drives to begin with.

I host a Gmod server on a PC I built and got for free from my school.

Using that server for ACF and Wire autism.

is there a guide on how to go about doing all this on the wiki or elsewhere?
it seems really cool

>>56559171
Here's the copy pasta that I used when I was running /hsg/

What would you use a home server for? /g/ answer - Fuck you, you turbo autist! Simple answer - For whatever you want. From media to development to virtualization, options abound.

Power - Any server DDR2 based is going to be power hungry. Most multi-socket Intel DDR2 systems are FBDIMM based. Anything else is ECC. With DDR3 based units coming off 2nd lease, anything DDR2 should be avoided.

Plex - 1080p transcoding at 10MBPS requires a CPUMark score of ~2000 per stream. This is especially true with first generation i3/5/7 / DDR3 Xeons. The more recent the CPU, the more slack there is in this. For some reason, Plex doesn't seem to like low power options (Xeon 1220L, for example).

Virtualization - ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, etc. ESXi is generally used by Linux heavy shops that aren't cloud centered. KVM is usually used in OpenStack. Hyper-V is for mostly Microsoft centric shops. These are all free, so use what you like.

Storage - Both ZFS and Storage Spaces pool. If you're going to use these options, do NOT configure the drive with a hardware RAID controller. Many options are available in general, such as FreeNAS, Nas4Free, OpenMediaVault, Windows Storage Server, Linux / Unix / BSD, etc. Some are free, some are not.

What should I get? A good starting point, if you don't want to build your own system, is an HP Proliant Micro G8, 8GB DDR3 ECC (Not Registered or RDIMM), 4 3.5" drives, and a 16GB micro SD card. Install OpenMediaVault on the SD card, and enjoy ZFS, Plex, and whatever else you want to try.

Where can I get things? Ebay is a good place to start. Used / refurbished gear is fine, provided that the seller is selling a large quantity of them. With drives especially, this is the case. The only real drive to avoid is the Seagate ES.2 1TB. These have faulty firmware and fail prematurely (Ask EMC).

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who vcenter / esxi here?

almost have my freenas box up and running, then i can run all my vms off iscsi storage. i would have it up and running now if i'd bothered to read more into what ram a supermicro x7dcl-3 takes, i thought i could just take the 4gb pc2-5390f modules out of my poweredge 2950 and use those but apparently i was mistaken there.

>>56559265
what do you use the VMs for? ive always wondered what the use case for that is

>>56559199
start /hsg/ again

>>56559278

A lot of stuff is currently running off a single 6core server, I'm migrating everything over to a cluster of poweredge 2950s with intel xenon 5355. These fuckers are cheap, 100 dollars for the bare server, then just buy cpu and ram. use a cheap flash drive to load esxi off.

Right now i have:

Plex / Mumble / Subsonic / Calibre / Web Server

Minecraft / Terraria / Killing Floor 2

all running pretty well. Need to get a few other services running like a dedicated RDP web browsing box for while i'm at work.

>>56559287
No, because time.

Though maybe in a while.

>>56559322
neat
what are the (dis)advantages to running them inside a VM? i imagine it'd be easier to just run them on a single debian install (which is what i do)

>>56559322
> Xeon 5355
> 2950's for $100
Take a look here...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322233849154

>>56559322
oh also if it wasn't obvious from the screenshot I migrated to a virtualized pfsense router a while back and its been fantastic. I'm maxing out at 180mb/s now where my old shitty cisco router was barely able to break 100 on a good day.

another benefit of using pfsense is that now i can just buy soho wifi routers and throw them up in AP mode whenever i want to upgrade my home wifi. Dont ever have to worry about port forwarding or firewall rule transitioning ever again.

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I have an old computer lying around how should I go about making it into a server?

>>56559355
thats not bad at all. I'd definitely reccomend you buy another psu if you buy that model though, dell servers are meant to share the load between the two redundant psu and if you make one psu take all the strain it heats up like a motherfucker.

>>56559395
install gentoo (literally)

>>56559395
install some version of linux
realize that you dont know how to use linux
spend the next 10 days trying to install lamps and get nowhere, then just go to ikea instead.

>>56559397
>heats up like a motherfucker.
I never had this issue with my R610's or T620. But I also run blanks in the 2nd PS slot.

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>>56559079
I am fully erect right now. This case is almost lewd. What did you pay for that case? Pic related is same case. Almost makes me regret buying my Fractal node 304.

>>56559418
its definitely noticeable in my 2950's but the 750w psus for those are only 8 dollars so its an easy decision to buy two.

also the 47ohm resistor mod for the fans works fantastic, its very quiet in my computer room now.

>>56558844
i understood two of those words

im gonna get googling

also i think that ill stick with an arch server or a raspbian one; my pc is running arch so it shouldn't be difficult to get going

>>56559437
>47ohm resistor mod for the fans works fantastic, its very quiet in my computer room now

tell me more about this

i have an old poweredge that sounds like a 747

>>56559199
please start it you cuck

i dont run servers but it was interesting and actually fun to read about them in the thread

>>56559437
Whatever works for you. I'm not going to fiddle fuck around with DDR2 based systems.

Though to be fair, I'm using a pair of DL380 G5's because I had them sitting on a shelf, and don't care about the noise (it's quieter than the AC in my office).

I still really should pick up a pair of R610's...

>>56559353
another thing i didnt really talk about is fault tolerance and redundancy.

when your computer's a virtual machine it is much easier to move it around. tech like vmotion lets me move a virtual machine from one physical server to another from a web browser. I can even move virtual machines between buildings, cities or countries if i want to, or add more virtual cpus, ram and storage on the fly as needed.


http://www.ratzblog.com/2014/08/reducing-dell-poweredge-pe-295029002800.html

just solder a 47ohm resistor inline on each of the four cpu fans to make it shut up.

DONT do this to the psus, they wont boot so good.

DONT do this unless your 2950 is on bios 2.7.0 or it wont boot so good.

DO enjoy the cheapest entry level servers you can get right now. ddr2 is going for $1 a GB on ebay or better. there's auctions of 100 4gb modules being won for ~100 dollars as everybody tries to get rid of this shit.

>>56557315
I have one running OpenBSD
I have my dekstop running Debian
and my phone running AOSP Nougat self compiled

>>56559519
that's cool as fuck anon. thanks for the info.

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>>56557913
I use almost the same Thinkcentre for my pfsense router. Had almost a year uptime once before the last big update. Only at 30 days right now.

>>56559519
I have a PE2650 and my fans could wake the dead. Don't use it for the same reason.

>>56559671
can you tl;dr how you set it up as a router? it seems like a great option considering how much they go for on ebay.

>>56559803
fan mod should still work, you just need to figure out what resistor value to use.

we still have a pe2950 at work running a few legacy apps, its the loudest thing in the server room and can be heard from the lobby when it gets busy.

>>56559805
have a computer with two ethernet ports, make a bootable cd/usb of pfsense and install.

plug one ethernet port into cable modem and the other into a switch.

>>56559835
im guessing you had to get a PCIe card for your setup, or are there ones that come with two ports?

>>56559519
You have to spend like $3000 or similar to gain vmotion abilities. I have the $600 basic license and I do not get that. And 2950s are inherently loud and power hungry. Dl380 is nearly silent and barely pulls 200w

>>56559848
go on ebay and search intel quad gigabit nic

30 dollars. you can get dual nics too.

>>56559862
vmware licenses are on the "honor system"

I dont pay for shit and have enterprise everything. just google vcenter keys.

>>56559874
oh shit, nice. thank you anon. expect a post in one of these threads in the future

>>56559835
That's basically it.

I would suggest getting Intel NICs. Some HP NICs are actually rebranded Intel hardware but cheaper. That's what I used.

pfSense is BSD based, and Smoothwall is Linux.

>>56559430
Around $190 when they were briefly in stock in newegg a month ago.

oh one thing that fucking sucks with running pfsense on esxi is that your WAN / LAN ports are going to be chosen at random.

you'll get an ip address on the LAN regardless but if your WAN nic isn't plugged into the cable modem it will show as disconnected and leave you scratching your head for a few minutes.

>>56557315
Home servers are a meme, just weebs use them.

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>>56560288

>>56560288
>Complaining about weebs
>On an anime board

>>56560354
sauce?

>>56558426
Underrated

>>56557315
I've had one since 2001 or so.

>>56562221
what's your name? I might know you

>>56558844
>pi
>running windows
Yea I doubt that