Home Server General

>>61371944
Because there are no good servers for a $200-$500 budget.

Just lots of super old overpriced shit and the new market is expensive as fuck.

>>61371944
Because 0.6mbps up connection

>>61371944
Raspberry server, with Apache/Php/sql installed on Raspberrian.
Cause I can

>>61371944
>Ok what are you running?
FreeBSD
>Did you fall for the "I opened nonstandard ports so I'm safe" meme?
Fortunately not
>Why aren't you hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
Wouldn't do it on my home line but maybe on a shitty t2.micro instance

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this is how homeserverfags actually live

>>61372162
youre dumb. any computer can be a server

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>>61372598
For fucking what? A shitty hp desktop can't handle traffic for shit

>>61371944
>Home Server
home servers are a meme

is an 8th gen HPE Proliant the best bang for the buck i can get?

>>61372617
>A shitty hp desktop can't handle traffic for shit
we're reaching levels of summer that shouldn't be possible

>>61372617
I rarely this but please go back to r*ddit

https://github.com/lavabit/magma

Is this any good? I wanted to set up a mail server and maybe sell accounts for bitcoins, how secure is it really?

>>61372617
What kind of fucking traffic will you be throwing at your own home server? How many people do you give access to your homoerotic media that you stockpile?
Why would you ever buy Haych Pee?

>>61372598
This, buy

>threadripper
>Mobo
>64 gb ram
>4x 10 tb hard drives
>Raid card
Bam, home server for $500

>>61372538
What inspires someone to post like this on a board dedicated to technology?

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>>61373603
>Raid card

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>>61373603
If you meant 24 10TB disks I could understand the RAID controller. Threadripper boards are likely to support at least 8.

>>61373603
>dell optiplex off ebay for $50
> on board gig ethernet
>4x 4tb for i dunno
>mdadm for raid
bam home server for like $200

>>61372617
You don't belong here Chad.

>>61374013
>>61374078
His board might not support "hardware" raid. Not all do.

>>61374258
Who in their right mind uses that? You're better off chucking the same money a decent RAID controller goes for at a terabyte of SSD cache.

>>61374555
Well if you need an extra terabyte why not just buy that along with the raid controller?

>>61374258
hardware raid is for idiots

>>61374838
hardware raid is botnet

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>>61371944
My comfy IPTV server running Debian. No GUI so uses like 30MB of RAM and about 200MB once a few clients are connected. Found the hardware in a dumpster so the only cost was the tuner cards and compact flash.

>>61374078

>server board
>no sata ports

>>61375526
Sounds cool. Can you give us any more detail about it all

>>61371944
because electricity costs and the bandwidths speeds I would get would make it inefficient compared to plenty of other locations and with my depression I would make a shitty lazy server host

>>61373638
>posting technology related things on a board about technology
>fucking retarted amirite?

>61375569
>>61375526
yes please do

>>61375652
oh god i just realized im retarded

HP Gen8 Microserver running CentOS 7 + OpenStack Ocata

>>61375532
Are you blind?

>>61375569
Like what? It's just a P4 shitbox running various DVB packages.

>Dell r710
>48gb of ram
>raid 6 array with 2TB usable
>File server vm
>pfsense
>sonarr
>radarr
>sabnZbd
>deluged

Also falling for the ubiquity meme about to buy usg, 24port Poe switch, and in wall access points.

>>61375718
>HP Microserver Gen 8

Jesus fucking christ anon, I had to install 2012 R2 on one of these bad boys
>no PXE available
>can't use USB formatted with NTFS in iLO
>booting with USB stick doesn't work, even after loading RAID Controller driver
>bought a fucking DVD to burn the iso, the burn process fucked up, DVD was unusable

After three fucking hours, I learned that you can mount isos through iLO. What a fucking ride.

>>61375806
If you buy an iLO Advanced license of some russian guy on eBay, you can also use the remote console without that stupid fucking timeout. it's nifty.

>>61371944
>selling admin
Gmod has more than enough of shitty servers

>>61376057
Go host on some almost dead game like day of infamy then

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>trying to open ports to run a TF2 server
>add the ports in the router
>ping them a few times
>ports not open
>call Comcast
>"I'm trying to open this range"
>they remote access my router and tell me the ports are already open
I actually never expected this to bite me in the ass.

What filesystem is best for bulk media storage?
I'm currently using EXT4 but might be rebuilding the fileserver soon.

>>61375532
it has mini-sas ports instead dumbass.

>>61372538
Has every guy who has a shitty beard and ponytail given up on life or are there some guys out there who actually think it looks good?
t. guy with shitty long beard and a ponytail who has given up on life

>>61379731
Depends on your needs.

>>61379523
There are websites that check if a port is open...

>>61379871
yeah, it's not.

>>61379880
pinging it again, even with my firewalls off I can only hit port 80, and other random http ports. I can't even hit 7443 or whatever https is.

>>61379941
How do you fuck up port forwarding?

If your router software is that useless look up installing ddwrt on it. I installed it on an old router to turn it into a nice wireless access point. If I ever want vlans I could with it

>>61371944
Is that Riker?

>>61379989
apparently my rotuer is an incredible pain in the ass to port-forward on, but it's the Xfinity one they give everyone.

I dunno how to fix it other than bridge it maybe and I don't want to drop on a new router.

Are there any good routers that can handle gigabit WAN speeds with DDWRT?

I have a AC66U with DDWRT and I'm only getting ~100mbit/s with DDWRT, and getting ~900mbit/s with stock ASUS firmware. This has to do with hardware acceleration.

Any help? I hate having to use the Botnet FiOS router. Being able to see all my router traffic on Verizon.net is not something I like.

My little server:
OS: Windows Home Server 2011 (2008R2 based)
CPU: AMD FX 8300 3.30 Ghz
RAM: 8GB (4GBx2)
HDD: 1TB (OS/Client Backups), 9TB (Raid-5 3TBx4)
LAN: 2X Gigabit ports (1 in use)
Roles: Media Streaming (Serviio DNLA Server),File server, IIS (FTP/Remote Web Access). Server is connected to a UPS so if power fails it'll shutdown properly. All data is backed up to a 8tb nas (older data) and to a 3TB external usb drive. Both stay offline when not in use.

>>61372162
i have a local fileserver/seedbox on a single core Athlon 2850e and it's a great time

>>61380033
Or flash new software like I suggested

>>61380059
I heard that many consumer routers can't handle gbit even if they claim to.
It's a lot more electricity but an old PC with pfsense is enough, maybe like an old laptop

any recommended setup for a home server with a raspberry pi?

ah fuck, I just checked, I'm down to around 150GB free space out of 9TB. Some of my file date from 1997 so I can't really complain I guess.

>>61380543
LNSP stack. (nginx-light, sqlite, python/perl you choose)

Anyone using ReFS? I'm considering making the switch.

>>61380059
When you use ddwrt you often (maybe always?) end up losing the hardware offloading capabilities and it really hurts the routing performance. I would recommend getting a dedicated non wireless router, pfsense perhaps. You could use your ac66 as just an access point and switch.

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I run a webserver and a proxy. PIC related is my server. It was a Toshiba laptop at some point, but now it's just a board that lives under my couch.

I may need some help.
I bought a Raspberry Pi, and i decided that I'd host a SSH server on it. It'd be nice if I could use it remotely from my phone or something like that. I installed Arch onto the Pi, and configured sshd properly. It's running and listening to port 22, and currently allows password auth because I just wanna get it to work before I start messing with the keys. And surely I can access it from my home network, but my router is giving me some trouble. It's a Huawei B593s-22, and theres lots of guides for port forwarding available. I forwarded port 22 properly, but when I try to connect to my server, it refuses the connection. pls halp

PS, When connecting to a SSH server, you're supposed to connect to the external IP, right? The one the Pi got from dhcp, or the static one I manually set up. I've tried both of those, and I just wanted to make sure that I'm not trying to connect to a wrong address.

what are some cool shit you can do with a home server? I don't really like games so not interested in hosting a game server

>>61380936
Plex server, torrent server, web server, print server, file server, tit server, shrimp server.

Career advancement, career advancement career advancement

Lab is le learning tool of life

>>61381032
I always vote to hire the candidates that have some kind of lab at home. I pass on all that don't have any sort of server at home or at least some cool outside of work tech stuff.

What should I use if I want a dedicated Plex/Seed box? Currently just using my main desktop.

>>61380936
I've got plex running on mine, plus a ssh server as well, so I can remote in to download shit from anywhere.

I'm working on setting up a little webserver too.

>>61381145
Build a dedicated box? Not that hard.

>>61372617
you're an idiot and don't know what a server is.

>>61380678
REFS (least as it was in 2012R2) is a kinda rough shape. You can only use storage space REFS on a mirror (Raid 1) or 3 way mirror (2 copies of data but it requires 5 drives at min). The last option, Parity volume (raid 5) is limited to only NTFS file system. Also to enable full volume data check summing you have to use a powershell command, it's turned off by default. Now an interesting thing is that while parity volume (R-5) with REFS creation can't be done from storage spaces you can create it from within standard Disk Management. However disk image/clone tools (Macrium Reflect) can't access it whereas if a REFS volume was created from storage spaces Macrium will see it.

A basic file server that also does dhcp/cache dns server don't need high end parts. The only time you'll need more muscle is if your doing media transcoding on the fly. (or waste time converting a ton of movies to a format your device supports). I got by for years on an 2004 era Opteron 170/4GB ram box. Ran it from 2004 to 2017. Only decommissioned it while I was also upgrade the storage.

>>61372538

I have to admit, he is kinda cute.

no h-homo

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>>61380678
>>61381385
Just use ZFS.
Running ZFS root on all my devices not counting my android phone at this point, until I can find a way to do it...

>amd x4 640
>biostar a870
>16gb ram
>meme 320gb hd for os
>1tb for storage

it's my old main pc that I replaced with a ryzen 1600, using it just for plex right now, as well as a youtube-dl script to download all my favorite channels daily videos and move them to the plex server automatically

i have to get around to setting up sonarr at some point

>>61371944
> Ok what are you running?
Dell PowerEdge T410
2x Xeon 5660 / 64GB RAM / 6x 4TB 3.5" HDD / 8x 1TB 2.5" HDD / 4x 500GB 2.5" SSD / 1x NVMe 500GB SSD / FirePro? W5900

> Did you fall for the "I opened nonstandard ports so I'm safe" meme?
No. All traffic is behind an Untangle UTM, and all connections over the wire are IPSEC (because I can, not because I need to)

> Why aren't you hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
Because I'm running other things instead. This server is for the house stuff. Other servers are the money makers.

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Built this thing a few years ago. The case is great really.

AMD A6-5400K 3.6GHz dual core
4GB DDR3
60GB OS SSD
4 x 4TB HGTS HDDs
Fractal Design Node 804 (Black + Window)
500 watt EVGA PSU

Mainly just a samba file server. It handles my remote backups too. Transmission for torrents. Nginx server for accessing some of the media files remotely sometimes.

>>61382103
>Dual core


Man...

>>61382410
it's just a samba file server for myself

It isn't really stressed

In fact I don't even know what I can put on it to use more resources and be practical in use

>>61373603
>4x 10 tb hard drives
>Bam, home server for $500
anon, I

>>61382428
Pfsense and a network firewall. It's not going to overload it at all but it might make for a good project

>>61380454
i didnt read the second part of it my bad. Checking it out thanks Anon.

does anyone know anything about cisco routers?
looking at getting one for education, and to see if one would be any better at being a cable modem than my old sb6121 that comcast doesn't like anymore

>>61381922

BROOOO I ran almost this exact configuration (had a 960 but same mobo) for like seven years and then bought into Ryzen to replace it.

How do I into Pfsense without using excessive power? It seems everything cheap and usable also happens to use power.

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>>61384122
a fellow patrician I see

>>61380865
Yeah, external ip. Remember that if you run a not 22 port externally, you have to specify that on login.

>>61384212
Virtualize it. Got a dual core virtual machine with a GiB of ram running pfSense handling a 1Gb/s network connection with multiple workstations & virtualized servers using it.

(Got an old proliant server with one of the eth ports connected directly to a modem. Then the pfSense LAN side is connected to another eth, which is connected to an old cisco switch that provides enough ports for all physical machines. VM Host OS is connected to a 3'rd eth that is connected to the cisco switch, and provides VM Guests with network that way)

>>61384212
I use a j1900 board
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-J1900N-D3V-rev-1x#ov
kind of expensive but sips power
only downside is that they used all the pcie for the nic's

>>61384612
What's the wan to lan throughput on that? I have an older suoermicro atom server I use now but it only does 700mb/s and I just got a gigabit link.

>>61384659
I haven't tested it extensively but it seems to be good enough
if you've got a gigabit link get something with intel NIC's
getting dependable throughput on a gigabit link isn't going to be cheap, do you have a switch with SFP ports?

I really want a decent homeserver for all kinds of shit but especially for hosting virtual machines. Does threadripper look promising or should I just stick with intel? What are decent non-rack cases that I can stuff with tons of harddrives/harddrive cases?

>>61385189
Yes, save $1000 and go with Threadripper, buy more RAM instead. VM servers typically hit the RAM ceiling before CPU time. The one exception is web servers which love all the CPUs they can get.

Gen8 Entry
120GB SSD for Debian 9
2x4TB HGST (one drive for parity, expanding to 4x4TB eventually)
SnapRAID + mergerfs for redundancy
Deluge, Samba, KVM host

Wish I knew why the thing forgets the OS disk array on poweroff. I have to re-set it up as a single disk sometimes.

>>61381994
Examples of the money makers?

>>61384349
Yep, I've tried different ports, and I remembered to add the -p option to specify the port. I noticed something interesting, it seems that my router is just shit. I can't forward any ports, except for 80. If I try connecting to any other ports, it just throws me out immediately, but when I use 80, it gets stuck on "connecting..." and then times out.

Any ideas on what I could try?

>>61386995
Is it an ISP issued unit? The one I had ages ago had hidden rules that I had to remove before I could start forwarding my own ports. Those rules were only visible when I used the tools available through telnet and ssh. It was very annoying since those rules reset every time the router had a restart.

>>61387393
Yeah, it's the one I got from the ISP. Pretty annoying that they'd cuck me with dumb shit like that, if that's the case.
How were you able to remove those hidden rules? It doesn't seem like I can just connect to the routers IP, not over telnet nor ssh.

>>61387482
Mine was open for telnet. There was threads about my router and isp combination on a forum here, so finding information about how to remove those rules was easy enough.

>>61384692
My current atom board has intel nics and still only 700mb/s. I a have a different quad port intel nic I'm going to try in there.

I am planning on buying a new Poe switch that does have 2 1gb sfp ports, but I'm not using any fiber in the house, why do you ask?

just finished the HE IPv6 cert so I had a web server, Email server, but I Shut em down. I just have a plex server and a VPN for remote access. I wish I could justify more stuff, but I don't know what. I want to add a Radius server for my WiFi for the fuck of it.

>>61371944
what is a home server for exactly?
i need to educate myself

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lab, on one R630, shits and giggles on another, storage server on another, plex, and stuff

>>61375532
>server board
>having sata connectors coming directly from the board
retard

I'm just throwing a dumb question here because this is server related:

let's say I have a windows desktop and a windows server, I want to run an .exe file on the server from my computer, is there a seamless way to do it or do I have to connect to it using remote desktop?

Just running a HTTPS server myself. I managed to load the php backend if it enough to require fcgid module on Apache instead of the pleb tier php module, so I guess I'm at least doing something right.

>>61387482
I don't know if you're still lurking,but, many ISP's do this because they don't want you running a server with a standard internet package. Basically, they're trying to bambozzle you into purchasing a business package for more money.

Running an old Core i5 650 on openindiana (illumos). Unfortunately it seems like illumos is kind of dead, thinking of switching back to Debian. Any other illumos users?

>>61380737
what would be some suitable hardware for running pfsense without hurting my power bill too much?

>>61380737
>>61390644
What's wrong with just using the Asus firmware? Is it really missing essential features?

>>61390778
muh FOSS
also ASUS's firmware sucks for anything advanced, it's a pain to configure the firewall especially.

>>61390837
I haven't really had any issues with the firewall configuration on my ASUS. And the other anon was suggesting using the Asus as an AP which would still require using proprietary firmware to get full speed.

>>61390857
true
I really just want to fuck around with PFSense though, and get some higher throughput over wired LAN. I didn't buy this spool of CAT6 for nothing.

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>>61391428

max array size for a 3 disk raid5?

im guessing like 4tb?

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> Home Server General

poorfag-weeaboo-faggot-neckbeard-pedo general

ftfy

>>61392703
>Poorfags have home server

I'm sorry the only valid reasons you wouldn't have a home server is if you fall into three or more of the following categories
>Too poor
>Too stupid to set it up
>Too stupid to know why a home server is usefuk

>>61393111
You can easily include shit Internet as a reason. If you have Australia tier Internet, then having your own server is kinda pointless.

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>i know basic of tcp/ip
>i owna think pad
>i visit /g/
>i have a home server
Literally fuckking meme like all them weebs
Disgusting

>>61393287
no. having shit internet is MORE reason to have a server

>shit internet went out
>good thing I have 6TB of movie saved to my server

>>61393354
How does that make sense? You can have that 6TB of movies on a random HDD in your desktop PC or on an external drive. You don't need a fucking server to store data.

A server is needed if you want to access that data from anywhere. Like for example, my music collection and other media files can be accessed from anywhere over my private VPN. I can watch all my movies, listen to all my music, etc no matter where I am as long as my Internet connection isn't total garbage.

>>61393452
>>>/out/

>>61393287
>Shit internet is a valid reason for your local network to also be shit

Wow a literal retard

>doing all that shit
>for $10 a month

How broke are you?

>>61393452
wow, youre or a simpleton.

>>61393479
How about you explain your retarded position instead? You don't know shit about servers and are saying completely dumb shit.

>>61393545
Explain how increasing your power consumption by deploying a local network service is somehow a good idea when all you need to do is store some fucking data for strictly local usage?
You're not even storing a large amount of data. 6TB is not enough to warrant a NAS.

>>61393452
>You don't need a fucking server to store data.

>>61393601
Any computer can have a HDD attached to it. It doesn't have to be a server in any but the most technical sense, since a SMB service is technically a server.

>>61372617
>using the brand as an argument as opposed to actual specs
Summer everyone.

>>61393590
>6TB is not enough to warrant a NAS.

>>61393590
>Home server is only for file storage

Ok yeah you're literally a bottom-tier /v/ consumer level retard

>>61393623
>SMB

>>61393634
The fuck do you need a NAS for when you have 1-2 HDDs?'

>>61393641
Stop strawmanning just because you don't have the mental capacity to comprehend what is being said. If you have a shitty Internet connection, then the only thing you can do with a server at home is basically file storage. If you can think of other uses for it, I'd love to hear it.

You're the consumer retard here.

>set up server
>expose to the internet
>standard ssh port but no root login and keys only for access
>still get a gorillion ssh attempts every second
What's the best honeypot software? I want to see what people want to do so badly with my machines.

>>61393735
It's not people, it's automated scans. They want to root your server and use it for something most commonly a botnet node, SFTP server or proxy.

>>61393111
>Poorfags don't have home server
I've had a home server ever since I was a poorfag high-school student. Just pick up any old discarded home PC.

>>61393672
>what is redundancy
>what is non dogshit random r/w speeds

>>61393672
>1 HDD
holy shit you must be trolling now

>>61393452
>You can have that 6TB of movies on a random HDD in your desktop PC
and then what if i want to access them from my laptop?

you see how obvious this is that a server for storing files makes perfect sense here

>>61393913
6TB of data is 1 live HDD tier. Or have you been living under a rock? I'm not saying you're not allowed to have backups, but you only need 1 live HDD to store 6TB. It's over 8TB of data when you need to think about having a proper NAS with redundancy to store it. The exception being that if your data is constantly being updated, then backups are not viable and you need a NAS to store even smaller amounts of it, but since you're a consumer pleb I know for a fact that you're storing nothing but Chinese cartoons and Hollywood blockbusters so you can fuck right off.

>>61393111
I've virtualized my server since forever, I'd have to imagine even poorfags could do this and still provide services online that they need. Even though I could I'd only set up a physical one now if I lived with other people and wanted to setup a shared NAS or something like that, maybe a HTPC server combo. As it is right now I've never needed a whole separate physical machine to do everything I need. Space and electrical cost deter me even more although I consider building on top of something like mips or arm instead of my current x86, see if I can actually bring electrical costs down instead of running this one constantly.

>>61393966
It's called a network share, dumbass. If you are honestly that clueless about basic networking, perhaps you shouldn't be running any servers. Specially not WAN facing ones. You're literally dangerous to the rest of the Internet with your botnet device.

>>61380792
you did good

>>61393672
>Your internet speeds affect the speed of internal lan network
Rolf, ok kid youre actually clueless

Since you mentioned you are cucked by your isp, a home network that caches your most visited sites would serve to lessen the pain of having a shit isp. Too bad youll never figure out how to set that up

>>61371944
reminder we have a discord for /hsg/
https://discord.gg/9vZzCYz

yeah discord is cancer but it's still pretty good, lots of people sharing tips and such.

>>61386567
why do they cuddle

>>61393968
Ive had my file server for years. Using 1 HDD instead of a RAID is retarded.

the computer itself cost about $50 off ebay, doesnt make me a consumer pleb. youre the one implying you upgrade to top of the line hard-drives as soon as they exist. you are literally the consumer pleb here

>>61394052
Is a strawman all you've got? Cuz I didn't say that. You imagined it in your head through your incapability to comprehend basic written word in English.

Also, I'm not cucked by my ISP. Again, another thing you've imagined in your rage induced illiteracy. I have a gigabit symmetrical connection and servers that are accessible from the Internet. If I had shit Internet connection, then yea I would probably reconsider having a server. At least given a modern context where data requirements are huge. I had no problem with a server on shit Internet 15 years ago.

can i host a tiny webpage and maybe a csgo server if my IP changes every 24h?

>>61394011
>It's called a network share, dumbass
you mean like the thing I have a dedicated server for?
my desktop has its use, and acting as a half-assed file server isnt one of them

>>61380678
>>61381385
>worse perf than NTFS
>less features overall
>unique features compared to NTFS are off by default
>doesn't take anything good from WinFS
>isn't ZFS
I'm legitimately mad, we wait forever to get an NTFS replacement and they fumbled, they're not even pushing it either, as far as I can tell.

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Don't upgrade to esxi 6.5

>>61384078

Ccna here. I'm not aware of any (at least affordable) versions that can function as a modem.

>>61394121
>having shit internet is a reason to not have a server

also

>having shit internet is a reason to have a server

have fun not being smart, you troll faggot

>>61394115
I don't upgrade to top of the line HDDs as soon as they exist, I upgrade to them when I need to. My last upgrade was from a mix of 500GB and 1TB HDDs to a set of SSDs and 4TB drives.

Why the fuck would you use shit HDDs well after their usefulness is exhausted? I do run an additonal 1TB HDD in a hotswap bay today because I want to rack up sick power on hours on it, but it's too small to be useful now. I'm not gonna RAID the damn things. And even if I was going to RAID them, I still wouldn't and would instead use ZFS pool anyway.

>>61394151
Yea, except you don't need a dedicated server for it. Which is the whole point. I would be willing to bet your dedicated server is little more than a half-assed file server itself.

>>61394150
Yes, you can automate dynamic DNS.

>>61394190
Can you please learn to read English before you post on an English language board? Thanks.

>>61372538
i enjoy the wrist accessories

>>61394230
>Why the fuck would you use shit HDDs well after their usefulness is exhausted?
you obviously have no idea how to gauge usefulness

>you don't need a dedicated server for it.
sure makes my life significantly easier though

>>61394057
Call me when you have an IRC

>>61394278
Or maybe you have no idea how to be efficient? HDDs take power and have a certain characteristic called "performance". I PAY for the power I use and I care about performance, old HDDs have less performance.

Also, HDDs have a limited lifetime. Yea, using 6 year old drives is fun and all (and I don't mean 6 years old as in I bought them 6 years ago, I mean they have been online for 6 years), but at that point I have reason to believe they aren't going to continue working forever.

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Got a raspi and I want to stream movies to my TV and my phone, how?

>>61394336
my file server uses less energy than my desktop; youre argument is invalid

also, my drives are RAIDed, so I fail to see your point concerning longevity. especially since they have plenty of life left in them anyway

>>61394408
readymedia or universal media server

>>61394414
That's not the point. 2 HDDs use less energy than 4 HDDs. You can't refute this. Having 2x4TB drives is the same amount of space as 4x2TB drives or 8x1TB drives. From a power consumption standpoint, having less HDDs is always superior. Whether the HDDs are located in your desktop system or in a dedicated server is irrelevant.

There is no instance where having more of smaller drives is advantageous. Outside of some fringe performance related situations which'd be better served by a SSD cache anyway.

>>61394057
>Community on hosting things yourself
>Using gamer datamining discord

Nice

>>61374258
HBA card is better, as then you can use much better software RAID (ZFS, or one of many other flavors) to manage it all.

Hardware RAID is shit.

>>61394452
Thanks.

>>61372162
>Because there are no good servers for a $200-$500 budget.
You can buy shitty 300 watt servers off Ebay for 100 dollars.

>>61394466
you have so many opinions, all of which are retarded and wrong

>>61394466
first of all, power consumption is the most retarded point ever, since were talking extremely small amounts of money, conveniently paid for by a bill that you already have to pay.

that said, using a dedicated server uses less energy since the desktop can be powered down

>There is no instance where having more of smaller drives is advantageous.
redundancy you dense idiot

>>61394719
You, on the other hand, have no opinions at all. So all you can do is clench your fists as tears flow down your ugly facade.

>>61394771
Idle power consumption of a typical gaymer desktop is around the same level as a high performance server.

If you have both a dedicated server and a gaming system running at once, you essentially double your power consumption for that period. So any savings you could realistically get are negated by that, unless you don't use your PC a lot.
Which I can understand. The last time I touched my gaming PC was like a half a month ago.

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>>61374258
>hardware raid

>>61372617
Inb4

>I need a core i9 with 64GB memory and SSDs in RAID5 just to run my 4 slot minecraft server

>>61394825
>high performance server.

continuing to be dense, i see

>>61379880
>>61379523
You have to set a static ip on the device in question and forward to ports to that ip.
If you leave the lan ip dynamic then when the ips inevitably change, the external ports will be forwarded to the wrong device.

>>61389432
You need to understand what a "server" even is to understand why people want a dedicated one in their own house.

A server is basically a plain ass computer that runs server daemons and often runs heedlessly and basically just werks

A daemon is a file that runs in the background.

A server program, serves shit. whatever you are needing you need a server program for that particular need.

want to write to files over the network? samba.
Want to download/upload files? ftp
want to log into the machine from another machine? openssh.
want movies to magically show up on your xbox or tv? dlna.
want a website? apache/nginx/other one I cant think of
same thing applies to game servers.

>>61392703
The amount of work that went into that image is both mind boggling and inspirational.

>>61372538
I miss Sysadmin.

>>61394070
to stay warm

>>61396412
What happened to him?

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Can anyone help me out here?
I'm trying to prepare my home network plans/future desktop.

I'm thinking about getting the new Asrock motherboard with a 10g connection and adding a 10g connection by an extension card to my home server.

Now I'd also like to virtualize a router solution too.

Does anyone see any problems with the diagram?

This way my desktop gets a 10g lane to my file server and virtual machines on the Linux Server but can still connect to any other machine on the network through that same connection, just at slower speeds.

Anyone ever tried something like this?

>Ok what are you running?
Primary server (intel nuc running ubuntu server): couchpotato, sickrage, jackett, plexpy, plex, deluged, pihole with dnscrypt, samba, nginx with basic authentication for reverse-proxy and SSL for all the web-interfaces. Also runs a openvpn client that initiates on boot and runs traffic from everything except plex and local data through it (done with marking then forwarding network traffic from specific users).

Rpi3:
Openvpn (for remote access to resources), Dyndns, Pihole with dnscrypt (backup if primary server goes down, my gf got annoyed when she couldn't access the web anymore when I was restarting or doing something on the server so I just set this shit up real quick).

>Did you fall for the "I opened nonstandard ports so I'm safe" meme?
For everything that isn't nginx, yes. I also block everything that isn't those ports in iptables, and since I need the openvpn client to have a open port, I wrote a script (based on pia VPNs open port script) that opens the port, sets it in deluged (whilst also binding deluge to tun0 interface) and also allow communication on the newly opened port in iptables and blocking the old port.

>Why aren't you hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
Because CS:GO is boring and gmod is just a bunch of 10 year olds. Plus anything that isn't PUBG bores the living shit out of me right now, probably due to my dying (ever since I turned 18, I'm 26 now) interest in games.

I'm very interested in security, so if anyone have any suggestions for what to implement, please let me know.

Would also like to know more about dockers/containers, so if anyone have good tutorials or resources for learning, please respond.

>>61396321
>Samba
>Recommending a protocol that only uses one thread of cpu

Enjoy your performance

>>61396447
Guzzled down his vape juice and ended his life

Does anyone have any experience with Google Fiber?

I'm going to be getting it in a month.

>>61372162
Not buying a Dell r710 for $200

>>61390357
There's a billion ways to do it

- telnet
- install sshd on Win Server (I believe there is a port) and configure a job to automatically invoke the exe via ssh
- install wamp and create a php script to invoke the exe via shell_exec(), then just invoke the php script by navigating to the URL

I believe there's a bunch of ways to achieve this via native windows facilities, but it has been a while since I've worked with windows servers.

I believe the latest-and-greatest Microsoft technology that might help you is called 'SCCM' (System Center Configuration Manager)
I had to help a guy at work the other day install our plugin with SCCM, so I know it can be used to invoke exe binaries

I can't remember the other ways to achieve this off the top of my head. But there is literally a billion ways to trigger remote execution. Arguably, it is one of the primary reasons we have networks at all. Its not just about serving static resources, its about triggering remote execution. (which usually generates some useful output; making it a dynamic data-source)

Sorry I say there's a billion ways, but can only quote 4. It's 22:12, i'm tired, and I think i'm intoxicated. So you'll have to go with one of those.

>>61397914
it was just an hypothetical question anyways, thanks for the answer anon, have a good night

>>61397046
Lucky bastard.
Do they allow port forwarding below 1000?

Comcrap & AT&T won't let you host anything "professional" so you can't hold them liable in case their crap copper decides to dump you.

>>61398443
I have no idea ive never had them before.

Comcast in my area used to not do that so I've never had to experience that.

>>61397019
>>61396447

What happened really?

Okay i need to know if i made a fucking dumb decision or not.

Bought a Dell PE 1950 with 24GB of DDR2 and 2 drive caddys. I have 2 CPUs in it and overall cost me £60~. Works fine. Dumb decision or not. First server, just doing random dumb shit on it.

Rate my $40 homeserver
it holds and seeds all my anime, plays my music, and runs a minecraft server

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>>61399850
fuck wait heres Neo-Fetch

>>61371944
How does anyone fall for the meme that you're safe by opening different ports? Lmao. Congrats, you wasted 3 minutes of the hackers time scanning ports

>>61396660
harddrive performance will be the bottleneck 9 times out of 10, and after that it will be network performance because not everyone has 10 gigabit in the house.

In the even that someone is even capable of transfer speeds that fast, what protocol for actually editing a file over a network would you recommend if not samba?
keep in mind that with ftp you have to actually download the complete file, make your edits, and then completely reupload the file and that is not a suitable replacement for samba.

>>61399254
I heard that he lost his wife and kids on a car accident or something, but it's fucking old and I don't remember shit. But it was a sad story

>>61386787
Mining rigs are G4400s with 8GB ram, but I think you meant server wise.

DSC testing and monitoring systems are Dell R910s (4x Xeon 7560 / 512GB / 16x 600GB 10K SAS) and Dell R610s (2x Xeon 5660 / 96GB / 6x 800GB SAS SSD / 48x 600 10K SAS in 2x MD1120)

I'm not sure that I'm going to upgrade, as Azure is looking more and more compelling.

>>61400505
>what protocol for actually editing a file over a network would you recommend if not samba?

nfs

9p

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>>61400741
we were engaged, not married, but yeah pretty much - was along time ago, almost 20years.

>>61396412
I'm still around, just don't use my trip much.

I don't have a beard anymore, which is kinda freaky - still don't recognize myself when I look in the mirror.

really should take a new pic of the rack, this one is kinda crap.

>>61399877
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of "hackers" are actually script kiddies that doesn't try that and only runs script that they don't understand

I'm thinking about building a 18 terabyte server with around server with around 9 dedicated to backups. What are my options. I'm hoping to just use Debian stable with samba and ftp to transfer files around but I don't know how to spec it out, especially when it's going to be me + maybe one other person using it at a time.

>>61400947
If thats really you then glad youre ok.

>>61380865
when you are connecting from home net use Inside local IP (IP assigned from dhcp)
from internet you have to have Inside GLOBAL (public) IP on WAN port on your router.
If you hit public IP on some port (preferentially 22) router should forward it to inside local IP (IP of server) via 22 port.

Tip: use static IP on server (manually preconfigure IP to be assigned to MAC add. by router) or just configure IP on server.
- find out if you got public IP from ISP, probably not (so buy it)
- some routers are unable to port-forward traffic back to internet or to be managed from internet
Tip2: try to manage your router from internet (if it is possible for router, if not still might port forward); if router has option to be managed from internet but with global IP still not working = bad news...

>using Windows 10 for my server
>plex randomly goes down
>go check my server
>its stuck on applying updates even though it shouldn't be updating at this time
>sits there for an hour
>go grab dinner, come back
>it's still sitting there updating
>eat my dinner staring at the wall

I guess I deserve this for not installing Linux. Someone told me here Plex was a bitch with permissions and I figured I wouldn't bother

>>61384078
>>61394184
CCNA here too.
same thoughts
they are overpriced for home users

>>61379731
btrfs with compression

> 2500K
> Asus - P8Z77-V PRO
> 2x 4Gb DDR3-1600
> fx5200
> 2x HighPoint RocketRAID 2700 HBA
> 8x 1Tb HDDs
> RAID 6
> Windows Server 2012R2

>>61396600
Hey man,
I did this through Hyper-v, it worked great!

I ended up changing to a physical firewall/router because updating my servers and maintenance was just a pain in the ass.

Question:

I want to open my server to the web. I have a domain name bought, and the server ready. I also want to host a web page, which contains a set of links to various services. I also want to have it password-protected.

How do I set up my network to make this safe? Is the router firewall good enough?

>>61400947
>>really should take a new pic of the rack, this one is kinda crap.
pls do that

>>61401059
As in "18 total TB, 9 data + 9 backup" or "18TB, plus 9 additional TB for backups"? Basically if you're concerned about bit rot use ZFS, if not you can just use mdadm. As a guy who had a drive that spat out a bunch of checksum errors I'm rather glad I picked ZFS.

You can run it on Debian. It's in contrib and distributed as source because of the CDDL shit, but it's fine, DKMS takes care of all that for you. Your constraint will be the number of drives you can fit in your chosen case, and how many of them you can buy at once. Parity RAID (6/Z2 is probably what you'd want) is more space efficient and better protection than mirrors, but it means you have to buy a pile of drives all at once. (because you can't remove/reshape vdevs) Mirrors have less redundancy and shitty space efficiency, but you can expand/upgrade two drives at a time. And they're faster, but for two guys watching anime from a samba share you don't really have to worry about performance too much.

Try and get ECC RAM. If you can. It's good to have but not the be-all, end-all some in the ZFS world make it out to be. You don't need enormous piles of it for your use case, it's dedup that eats RAM, and you don't even want dedup. Other than that it just needs to be powerful enough to run whatever else it is you want to run, in addition to serving files.

>>61401418
That someone is obviously retarded.h

I'm just running a little NAS but I'm having issues wit4h LXC under debian. Currently very happy with being a seedbox but I want to expand it a little more. May I have some tips on LXC? I can't figure out why it is failing.

>>61400947
I usually don't follow trips' life around the chan but I'm glad you're still around. Sorry for that even if it happened long time ago.

>>61401515
Ugh I despise Windows Server though.

Did you do the 10g ethernet connection?

>>61401540
>Parity RAID... is ... better protection than mirrors
>Mirrors have less redundancy

How do you figure that?

>>61399625

Enjoy your power bills

>>61401776
this is why i dont have it running. the only thing sucking harder than the power draw of it is my buying decisions. oh well, was fun getting it to run.

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>>61401814
>the only thing sucking harder than the power draw of it is my buying decisions

I kek'd

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>>61401540
>pls do that

there, bit better

>>61390857

>And the other anon was suggesting using the Asus as an AP which would still require using proprietary firmware to get full speed

Are you an idiot? Any router can be turned into an access point by doing these things regardless of firmware or brand.

1. Turn off DHCP
2. Set the WAN port to DHCP
3. Set the DNS to your primary router
4. Set a static IP for your new AP/Switch as something in your subnet, just not the same as your primary (ie 192.168.1.2)
5. Plug the cable that you are using to connect to the LAN on one of the LAN ports.

Then all that is left is to set your wireless up and remember that the WAN port is useless now

>>61380469
>I heard that many consumer routers can't handle gbit even if they claim to.
he literally just said
>getting ~900mbit/s with stock ASUS firmware
its clearly not a problem with the hardware being up to scratch

>>61380059
try tomato
as for an actual fix

bumpo

>>61394153
>any version of ESXi
upgrade to KVM

>>61404515
Why not LXC/LXD?

>>61404551
fuck off proxmox shill

>>61402885
on DD-WRT you can assign the WAN port to the switch, but it doesn't work on my TP-LINK WR841n

>>61404551
Security

>>61404556
What are you talking about? You can use LXC with any libvirt compatible tool

>>61371944
>What are you running?
CentOS server on an old home PC (wasn't being used otherwise so I decided I might as well use it for something)
Running Samba and transmission-daemon at the moment
>Did you fall for the "I opened nonstandard ports so I'm safe" meme?
Nope
>Why aren't you hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
Because I only need it as a home fileserver and it's probably not capable of running game servers as well

New to home servers, I've bought a raspberry pi just for the learning experience and for a low-power server. There's a huge amount of different services for server file storage - ownCloud, RSync, GitLab, Syncthing etc. and it's kind of overwhelming for a newcomer.
All I'm looking for is a system that allows me to easily sync my music between all my devices, using the Rpi, and also being able to store other files on the Rpi that aren't synced but are accessible from outside of it. Any suggestions for which is best?
Also while I'm asking questions, is Pi-hole worth setting up? I get ~80mpbs download and play FPS/MOBA games, would the bandwidth be restricted or latency increased using pi-hole?

Previous site I worked at had 10 separate fibre optic gigabit lines, only 5 of which were in use. Since nobody ever checked I used to run a streaming site using the gigabit fibre optic, hosted anime, hentai and cartoons charging $5 monthly subscription netting around $600 a month

Got two 2008 mac pros pretty loaded out for free
what should I run on them?

Apart from maybe using one to run zfs and as a firewall, I dont really have much else I'd care to run.

Help desk peasant here..
Any recommendations for learning networks?

>>61404556
>fuck off proxmox shill
wut I'm new to LXC so I don't know what are you talking about.

>>61404589
LXC is no secure?

>>61404681
pihole is just a blocking dns server, you shouldnt have any increased latency or bandwidth problems in your faggy vidya.

>>61404823
I was only apprehensive as I'd heard the ethernet on the rpi wasn't great, might set it up today, cheers.

>>61404797
>LXC is no secure?
Less secure than a full blow virtual machine

>>61404862
Then, let me ask you something.

I have a little Odroid running my home server. When I asked about chroot they told me to go LXC/LXD.

When I ask about LXC/LXD you tell me KVM.

What's the limite? What should I research in order to be secure?

>>61404921
a full blown physical machine is more secure than a virtual machine.

>>61404921
Nah is all about preferences, chroot is just fine, or even just a separate user. This is a more pedagogic talk, like between friends.

That is not to say some people use a separate virtual machine for each type of server, because some do.

I don't know what I would do with one desu. Maybe leave it as an encoding farm or some shit. I just want a NAS, but it doubling as a homeserver might be cool.
On another note, have you build your routers? Maybe a Raven Ridge APU without iGPU or Ryzen 3 might be fine after undervolting.

>>61404980
I see. I just want to run a few webservers without compromising the system and therefore my network.

I've been researching LXC but seems like it is not very compatible with Debian Jessie for some reason I didn't get. Should I go full KVM?

>>61371944
>Ok what are you running?
From home I serve absolutely nothing to the outside world.

>Did you fall for the "I opened nonstandard ports so I'm safe" meme?
I only did that to avoid unnecessary chinese spam on servers too weak for iptables (they exist)

>Why aren't you hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
I dont want that shit in my house and I doubt gameservers would run very well on my arm dedis (and on vps is out of the question).

>>61394153
Why not?

>>61372162
I bought an r710 with dual quads and 128gb of ram on eBay for $175

>>61405030
If you are just starting maybe just use either firejail, chroot or a separate user, or all three. If you want to spend the time then by all means follow your dreams and use qemu with kvm for each service (or go pro with genode or xen), but don't dare to go this deep without having the skill.

>>61404564

yes, but, with DD-WRT you lose hardware acceleration on that particular router meaning your throughput with WiFi and ethernet is shit.

This works on every router on the market with stock firmware so the hit to performance is nonexistent.

For instance, I bought a Tenda AC15 which is a fast AC router for $50 about a year ago and set it up as described. There is no working aftermarket firmware (at the time, anyway) I have a pfsense router in my basement doing the heavy lifting. A similar performing access point was more money and couldn't be used as a switch.

I lose the WAN port, big deal, I saved cash by not buying a switch and a separate access point

>>61372617
Dude, even a gen 1 Raspberry Pi or a smartphone can be a server.

>>61394153
the PSOD is a known issue, upgrade your iLO drivers...

>>61404515
this
i have been using plain debian with kvm installed on it and manage it usually with either cli or virt-manager and it has been very solid and no issues, 0 regrets and i dont miss esxi

>>61405109
I checked KVM overall and seems like it is x86 oriented. I think that meanst I can't use it in the Odroid since it is an ARM.

>>61401733
Say you have four drives. You can either put them in RAID 6 (Z2) or a pair of mirrors. Either way gets you 50% space efficiency. Now a drive dies. With RAID 6 your array is still redundant. You can lose (or experience a read/checksum error on) any of the three remaining drives and not lose data. With mirrors, one vdev is still fully redundant, but one isn't. If the second drive you lose is the wrong one, you lose a vdev, and the whole array with it.

>>61371944
>Ok what are you running?
Dual Xeon E5-2670, 128GB DDR3 ECC, 12TB RAID, GTX980, 2008R2
>Did you fall for the "I opened nonstandard ports so I'm safe" meme?
No. Port scanners will find open ports within seconds and any decent firewall will block intrusion and bruteforcing attempts.
>Why aren't you hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
Because those are shitty games people normally stop playing past the age of 14.

>>61404515
i prefer to work with something that is actually valuable in the real world

>>61407189
it wasnt even with the hp's, the fucking ts140 kept dropping interfaces and eventually just started locking up once a day. ran for 2+ years without any issues until 6.5

just reinstalled back to 6 and hoping for the best

>>61371944
12tb zfs raidz2 for nfs, bind9, postfix, ntp, suricata.
todo: yacy, wireguard

>>61379854
believe it or not some people look good with it and women actually enjoy a pretty boy who's not a fat american fukboi fapping traps and 2d shit. stop being so intimidated by a god damn ponytail you insecure piece of shit.

MiniDLNA won't show in my Tv, I've tried googling the answer but nothing. Tried changing the port to 9800, restarting, can't find any solution, help!

Anyone running a matrix server? Im thinking about setting up a server for my wife and me, using matrix on backend and riot as front. Does play store gcn push notifications work? Im running rocket.chat for my workplace but it's android clients are clunky

>>61409740
upnp enabled in your network?

>>61375804
>deluged
good taste

>>61409930
How? Do you mean is a router problem or something?

>>61409864
Fug meant gcm, not gcn. Yeah I could go with polling too, I guess, but I already have sold my soul to google anyway so I could use their pushes anyway.

>>61409531
>Dual Xeon E5-2670, 128GB DDR3 ECC
sure you do sweetie
and what do you do with all the cpu power

>>61410886
Running sshd, apache, mysql, and file+media server while playing gaymes.

>>61371944
>Ok what are you running?
Windows server
-i5-2500k
-16gb ddr3 ram
-500gb hdd
bought for $90 on ebay. I just wanted to run game servers to play with friends.
>Did you fall for the "I opened nonstandard ports so I'm safe" meme?
I have several nonstandard ports open what trouble am I in for? How is opening ports supposed to be dangerous when I'm not running sockets on them?
>Why aren't you hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
Csgo has endless amounts of 24/7 servers with nobody on them, I assume its the same for gmod

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I use it for webbhosting, plex and just fucking around.

>>61411212
>tfw that goes for £200 regularly on ebay here
i hate ebay here so much and theres no other option
no real recycling options either
just kill me
>>61411508
>root@debian-server
>1450 packages

>>61381104
How would I write this into my resume? "In my free time I enjoy managing my private servers for VPN, media distribution as well as my personal web servers. I am currently working on a routing solution using pfsense."?

What can I flash on a trendnet tew-731br? Pfsense? OpenWrt? LibreCMC? Google throws nothing.

>>61413123
say you stay up to date with latest technologies with your homelab
they generally dont care about pfsense

i had an example from some redditor hold on i'll find it

>>61413708
Thanks anon, added it to my resume!

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>>61371944

>nonstandard ports meme

They're more effective than nothing anon...

https://danielmiessler.com/study/security-by-obscurity/

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Is the Dell Optiplex for basic home servers a meme, or are they actually decent?

>>61371944
are there any sata/molex/pcie to multiple sata adapters that wont burn my house down?
I don't feel like buying a new 1000 watt psu just to be able to connect a bunch of hard drives in my nas

>>61414687
Riddle me this, is running Nginx+Apache on Windows security by obscurity?

>>61371944
Need halp /HSG/.
I'm currently hosting a full-time Raspberry Pi server with a web page, currently is being visited by ~100 people.
Now, this fucking piece of shit ruined me two SD cards, so it's posible that maintaining it up 24/7 ruined me the cards?
It's a better solution to boot from USB and put a usb disk?

>>61415616
Stop logging, then you won't ruin SD cards as much.

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> Xeon 3075
> 6GB DDR2
> 2X 80GB mechanical drives in RAID
> Dual NIC on mobo
> R7 240
> Currently running Windows 10

Have had this machine for a little while now, runs great, but is currently sitting in my closet (I occasionally fire it back up to stay current on Windows updates).

Is there a crash course type thing for home networking? It would be nice to use this machine for something while also learning something new at the same time.

Would it be ok to use a raspberry pi 3 as a NAS, or would the usb bottleneck transfers?

>>61415810
It's ok, as long as you have 1-2 disk (if you have 2 disks you'll need more energy)

>>61415810
Yes, the USB is a bottleneck, as would the lack of gigabit Ethernet.
It's up to your requirements though. If you don't mind it being slow and you're trying to get something cheap, it would probably be fine.

>>61415830
Thanks, I was looking at hdd racks for internal disks, is it worth it or should i just go for external usb hdd?

>>61415844
Honestly it is more of a starting point than anything else. I want to learn about networking on a cheap machine.

>>61415688
>Currently running Windows 10
Why not Windows Server 2016? Windows 10 is the literal worst choice for a server since it'll force you to restart for updates. If Windows isn't a necessity and you want to learn something new try installing Linux on it.

>>61415860
>I want to learn about networking on a cheap machine
If you have an old computer lying around (or the parts to assemble one), I would go with that.
If you don't, the raspberry pi would probably be fine.

>>61415880
I used to have one but it was not working properly and it went to the thrash when I moved from my flat. So yeah, 50e for raspberry seems ok.

>>61415810
It depends on your transfer rate, if you need to stream a movie in 1080 I think it's fine, but if you need to transfer lots of files at the same time, that would be kinda slow.

>>61415849
If you do that, you need a proper power supply, the main issue on the raspberry if the power, if you manage to put proper disks on a rack via usb, and then powering them via an external power supply, you'll fine.
Or if you wanna do everything via usb (external usb hdd fits here), then you'll need a better power supply to feed your raspberry.

I'm >>61415616 and now I'm looking that the issue that fucked up my SD partition was power consumption. When you're setting a server for 100-people traffic, the processor takes a load and starts consuming more and more power.

Btw it was the second SD, the first one split in half

>>61415909
Yeah, what's interesting with the racks is that you can power the hdd directly.

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Sorry, I'm a degenerate that uses windows server.

>>61414818
Depends on what model you get. The smaller form factors have limited space. I used one as a Plex server for a while and it was ok performance wise. If I had to do it again, I'd probably build something from scratch with used ebay parts and get a roomy case.

>>61416269
If you do the ebay option, 2400s is cheap as fuck

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>>61415866

I don't really have a good answer for you other than I didn't intend to use it as a home server initially.

Is Windows Server 2016 as easy to pirate as Win10?

Because I have fucking ds lite because my provider is shit. Can't open ports with that crap.

Recently bought a used MediaCenter PC that's 100% passive cooled.
>80€
>i7 3770K
>8GB DDR3
>external PSU
>mini itx

Probably one of the best steals I managed to strike so far.
Currently it's hosting a Discord Bot with over 10k users and the website to invite it.

I'm a shitter that has only experience with Windows Server.
Exchange, Webserver and FTP, the basic shit, nothing special.

Redpill me on cool shit I could do with my homeserver aside from installing gentoo.

Considering buying a Raspberry Pi Zero to use as a WakeOnLan Server for when I go working abroad and I want to use my Home Computer.
Anyone has any experience with that or got any neat articles about how to do that?

I have ZERO experience with Linux, I don't mind learning though.

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>tfw want to learn more about servers but have no need for one and cant justify building a system for it

>>61416987
Virtualize one.

>>61416904
>Considering buying a Raspberry Pi Zero to use as a WakeOnLan Server for when I go working abroad and I want to use my Home Computer.
>Anyone has any experience with that or got any neat articles about how to do that?
It's pretty simple, just login via SSH and run a WoL program. Alternatively have a password protected website that executes it with php.

>>61416987
i have no need for one either. i got one anyway to learn it.

... well my dad gave me a computer he didn't need, but I was gonna throw one together out of spare shit anyway. I just didn't have a case.

>>61409531
dual xeon 26xx bro

got myself a dual xeon e5-2620 setup, 64gb ddr3 ecc,24 tb raid6 2016

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i'm currently using an i3-2100, 4GB RAM and 3 80GB HDDs running Fedora, i want to upgrade it but the replacement i built doesn't want to run VMs (i5-750, 8GB RAM, 1 3TB HDD, 2 500GB HDDs, 3 160GB HDDs and a 80GB HDD running FreeNAS) so i'm still stuck on the old one

>>61371944
>hosting gmod/csgo servers and selling admin for $10/month to make easy money?
Is this a meme or actually profitable?

I have an old keenetic router and thought about using it as a weak NAS for music maybe

Can an IDE hdd be effectively connected via 2 USB 2.0 ports? I've seen a bunch of chink adapters but are there any caveats? I don't want to buy and external drive yet and have a lot of old hard drives I want to milk dry before throwing away

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samba, ftp. later i plan to host a web page and forward a port what security actions should i take?

>>61415866
Set your connection as "metered" and you won't have to worry about forced restarts but I do see your point.

>>61375526
What do you use for transcoding?

I used to use a dedi on OVH to get HTTP streams, transcode them and resend as RTP/UDP.

So, you need to enable upnp on the router for DLNA?

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I used to have a Windows server that was used for offload rendering via Autodesk Backburner and served for saving backups

Then I ended up with a mice infestation and the damn pest pissed all over the components, destroying everything
Only the RAM sticks and the old GPU survived