/hsg/ home server general

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>>61638987
I recognize that rack!

Linux. What are your specs?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ledv33t6SNE
I am looking to follow Wendel's video for making an pfsence router with old business PCs. Does anyone have experience with working with Dell Optiplex or HP Compaq PCs and can tell about any troubles they had? Such as faulty power supplies, comparability issues with network hardware or models to completely avoid?
Very much appreciated

Anyone have any ideas what I could use the Windows Server 2012 computer I have to?

I set it up, but I have nothing to serve, and I listen to music on tape and vinyl.

>>61640649
>I listen to music on tape and vinyl.

so hipster faggor?

serve 'docker' 'apps' to your 'mac'

>>61638987
>Atom
>cortex
>J1900

the fuck is wrong with you

- I have two gen8 hp microservers acting as storage running with 4x2Tb wd red each.
They also have a 10G mellanox card.
- I just bought a new mikrotik switch with 2 10G SFP dac cables.
- They boot debian stretch from an internal usb stick and have a zfs raid 10 setup on the 4 discs

- I also have a run of the mill desktop (windows 7) computer with 2 capture cards and 2 vcr-s hook up to them. I do mass video archival for family and friends. (I also have 2 backup vcr-s if something acts up)

>>61640714
this, seriously if it doesn't have at least 2 xeons and cost at a minimum $5k you can't call it a server.

>>61640714
Cheap passively cooled mini ITX or smaller boards that makes a minor dent on your overall electricity bill, some of them have dual NICs. Nothing wrong with that. For home use, such boards are fine for a large number of tasks.

>>61640694
I don't have a mac.

And I completely stopped using my iPhone for music because of how hard it was to use.

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>>61638987
This is my little fella.

The "SERVER" VM runs PLEX + Veeam Backup + RDP for external accessing

>>61638987
Home server newfag here, planning to setup a nas + hp microserver by october/november.
Can you gib advice on where to find tutorials, books or videos about homelabs for complete noobs?

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It's not much but it's enough.

Though I've been noticing that my OS RAID1 has been a bit slow lately. And I see some disparity error count going up on one of the links:

Adapter Phy 1:  Link Up
  Invalid DWord Count                                       4,053
  Running Disparity Error Count                             3,752
  Loss of DWord Synch Count                                     0
  Phy Reset Problem Count                                       0

Though I've replaced the drive, and the cable, and I changed the connector(I have 4, using only 2) at boot it still show those errors. It's a pain because I think I might have to replace the controller.

It's a:

SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS

I bought it used for like 50USD, now everything I look at is above 200. Wtf.

I need a couple of large (6tb+) drives for a raid 1 array, which should I avoid? Talking failure rates as they only have to be fast enough for gigabit saturation.

I have pic related (ASUS S1-AT something). It was slow af when it came out (2010) and it's even worse now. I replaced the wifi card with a gigabit ethernet card, modded the case for a second ethernet port; replaced the optical drive with a second hard drive. It has two 2GB drives in RAID1

It's nice as a router and as torrentbox/fileserver but I wish it was faster and I need more storage.

>>61641312
Probably too early to tell since they're still somewhat new. I have. Backblaze has some numbers, but those failure rates for either are fairly low.

Seagate Ironwolf series are faster, but pretty audible. WD Red series are slower (but still fast enough to saturate a Gbps LAN) and much quieter. If specs matters to you, seagate promises higher URE numbers, but I don't know enough to tell if that really matters or not. I ended up buying the 6TB drives from seagate, but mostly because I already had a bunch of WD Red drives, and felt like buying something different.

>>61640813
What are the limitations on a free ESXi licence?
Something like 2 vCPU max on a machine is it?

>>61640725
How hard is it to setup zfs on debian? I'd like a "modern" fs but btrfs is like dicing with danger and I don't have the budget for the windows server stuff.

>>61640799
I use my server to host plex. It transcodes, so I can listen to flac files on my phone without going through to hassle of converting them. It allows me to have a much larger music collection than the phone can store and plex works perfectly. I can also share all my media with friends. Plex is great and just one use for a server.

It's just a HP z210 workstation, but it's plenty powerful enough for my needs.

Down the road, I might turn it into a pfsense router/firewall, as I have a spare switch that I'm not using at the moment.

what other cool things can I do with a server besides mass-leeching off my seedboxes and storage for anime and shit

My server is just acting like a big expensive external drive at this point with samba and sftp and all that

>>61641526

Thanks anon. I'll probably grab wd reds as I'd prefer them to be quieter.

>>61641857
If you no longer see a need for it, sell the parts, buy a smaller, simpler NAS that uses less pixies from the wall. No point keeping it if you don't find that much benefit.

>>61641526
Given that most consumers will probably never put a enterprise level of strain on hard drives, how useful are those backblaze charts for consumers?

>>61641899
are you that confident that there is 100% nothing else I can do with this thing if you're telling me to sell it

>>61641945
You can always do more shit with the server. Run a DNS server, plex, turn it into a firewall, use it to host VMs, or as a gmod server and then sell admin access, there's a ton of shit you can do with a server

>>61641945
I'm telling you, that if YOU can't find a reason to keep it, don't keep it. I do plenty of things with my server, but those might not align with what you want.

For example, I stream music from my huge music collection to my laptop at work(though a VPN which my sever hosts too). This way I can have all of my music at work, without bringing it physically in(which is forbidden, we can't bring USB drives or any other storage media inside, and USB ports are disabled).

>>61642001

You can't bring USB sticks to work but can connect to a private external server? Your company sounds as dumb as mine..

>>61642001
>I stream music from my huge music collection to my laptop at work
>a VPN which my sever hosts
see maybe you could have started with this rather than try and tell me to sell my server.
I was looking for ideas like this.

>>61642040
Well, security does monitor traffic in our corp network, and when they see weird shit they usually check it out.

The thing is, they are usually looking for stuff leaving our network, not coming in. Also, I'm just streaming mp3s, so the amount of traffic is tiny, they wouldn't be able to take note of it with much more sever shit happening all the time. Also, I use a trick which should make it harder to notice my traffic. The company I work for provides cloud services, so I use their service to put a hop between my VPN host, and my work laptop, which is one leg inside our prod network, and one leg inside of our cop network.

>>61642153
I use my uni internet to pirate. Shitty internet at home but blazing fucking fast internet on campus.

I got insider info on how they detect it so now I tunnel pretty much everything through ssh from my seedbox via Putty.

Your work probably just logs "outbound" traffic but you can probably tunnel it through https or something so they cant tell the difference

I might be a brainlet about this stuff though so feel free to call me a fucktard

>>61638987
Odroid C2 running armbian (Linux). For seedbox and IRC bouncer, will experiment with VPN, DLNA, and web server at the same time.

>>61642001
Military/DoD?

>>61642195
You're spot on actually, I am making my VPN traffic look like HTTPS, so for them it should look like nothing special.

ALTHOUGH, if they ever did take notice, they'd see I'm both the owner of the VM, and the laptop that receives the traffic, so it could look nefarious to them. But what the hell, I need my music. And fuck spotify.

>>61642253
would you know anything about tunneling my home's samba networking outside

i have a samba server at home and windows works great with it for hubbing my programming projects across all my home's computers but having access to that outside the house would be damn great

At home I can open //CoolServ/Projects/Blah/ in visual studio or visual studio code and just work on shit with a 100mb/s network.

>>61638987

Is this alright for a home NAS

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/C87mTH

>>61642253
as far as my uni knows I daily connect to a server and download maybe 80gb within the span of an hour from time to time.

Though I did previously have a film major so that wouldn't be too surprising to see should I ever get a flame under my ass about it.
One of the clubs has totally on-monitored internet since they host an out-bound server there that could easily be raspberry pi-ed into my own little geocache

>>61642251
Yeah, like I'd confirm any of those on 4chan. Lol.

>>61642413
Samba wouldn't perform well over internet+VPN, unless we are talking small number of big files. If you deal with a medium or large amounts of small files it's going to be unusable. You're better off using something like git-annex.

>>61641945
I usually host game servers and such on mine. I sometimes use it with distcc when compiling stuff with older C2D laptops too. Having a fileserver with a somewhat powerful CPU can be convenient, and makes the machine a lot more flexible. If you really don't need that much power, you could downgrade to a low voltage CPU (like a 13W Xeon).

>>61640334
In like a year your got to have to put a i5 or a processer that has the AES instruction set

https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-2-5-and-aes-ni.html

>>61640649
>Windows Server
Switch to Linux for your server. Then look into samba or NFS for hosting a file server. Flexget is a neat tool for automating downloads. You could also run a yacy node to scrape some sites and make decentralized search better.

>>61640904
I usually just look stuff up. Also the arch linux wiki is really good (can't say the same for arch itself). For a nas you'll either want to share the files with samba (if you have windows clients) or nfs (if you only have Linux clients).

>>61641526
>>61641904
I don't fully trust backblaze. Someone on /g/ once told me they buy used drives sometimes which fucks numbers (although they may have been talking out their ass). Their numbers also have other problems, mostly that they don't get even numbers of each brand.

>>61643324
I think they just buy any drive they can their hands on, as long as they can get a large volume of them. They'll rip drives out of external enclosures if they have to.

>>61638987
two proxmox servers running servers for different services like a linux machine with zfs with an hba through pci passthrough, pfsense firewall, xrdp terminal server, ssh server for tunneling, etc., DNS server for my internal domain, ipv6 reverse dns from the internet, resolving queries internally, owncloud server, the occasional game server for friends, deluge server, internal web server for various things like documentation, a windows server for testing that's currently shut off
all of this is on those servers, even the firewall, using linux bridges

>>61641857
You could run a yacy node for decentralized search, use flexget to automatically grab content, run your own DNS server and make your own private local domains, run emby, run a game server, host a mumble server even host your own calendar and contacts server like Baikal.

>>61638987
Does anyone know if there's something like pfsense but based on linux? I'm not a big fan of the BSD license.

>>61643524
Never used them myself, but there is stuff like VyOS and ClearOS. I use OPNsense myself (which is more like pfSense).

ESXi to virtualize everything, then usually centos, ubuntu server or windows server to build whatever I need.

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Current specs:
2 x ESXi
1 x Freenas
Fortigate 80c
Cisco 3750g 24 port
Baytech network PDU

Mostly Centos and Debian. Host a few games, voip, git, vpn, etc. Currently working on getting openstack going on my 2 unused servers.

Future plans are to swap the fortigate for a Pfsense, get a 48 port Gb switch, move from freenas to ceph.

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please rate my servers

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>>61644069

back side of the rack

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>>61644082
>same case as I do
my nibba

>>61641617
>>How hard is it to setup zfs on debian?
Well it's in contrib and its a DKMS build-from-source thing because of the CDDL bullshit. But other than that you can just install it and go. It works great, I'm using it. I think it's in stable for Stretch, in Jessie it was in backports.

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ESXi or Proxmox?

Which /g/ prefers and why?

>>61644118
Was my first computer case back when I was an edgy gamer. I don't have good memories of it because my GPU just barley fit in it so it was a pain to get out.

>>61641581
I'm not using a free license but you won't be able to use stuff like vmotion etc

>>61644082
>>61644118
I have the same case too. It makes a decent server case, has good airflow and has a decent amount of drive bays. I too had it leftover from an old build.

>>61644194
I just use libvirt on Debian.

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>>61638987
sause on the rPi cases?

>>61644463
>>61644212
Currently using it for my desktop right now. Server has pic related since it was cheap.

Now I easily ran out of 3.5 inch drive bays and gotta get some caddies to put those upper three slots to use.

Any cheap as fuck 3.5-to-5.25 bays you guys rec or should I just get a new case altogether

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>>61644704

>>61640334
Ive got a Dell Optiplex 330 that has been pretty much running for like 3 years straight now. Only issue I had is it wouldnt boot one time and it would beep, ultimately fixed by removing a RAM stick. I havent bothered to even try and put a different stick in to see if the problem was the RAM or the computer itself.

Its this one here:
>>61644607

Specs:
Core2 Duo 1.8 GHz
2 GB RAM
80 GB boot drive
2x 2 TB WD Reds in RAID-1 using mdadm
4x 250 GB laptop drives over USB 3
Debian Wheezy
nfs

I'm certified in networking twice, but I have no experience in application so I'm planning out my lab.

What I want to do is to keep the "normal" network (WAN>modem>wireless router>users) the same but have a "private" network in my private network to fuck around with without knocking people off from the internet

I know I can VLAN and trunk it, but I dont want to do that.

I'm thinking about using double NAT

the normal network is using the RFC 1918 address of 10.0.0.0, could I just have the "private" network with 198.168.0.0 and NAT into the normal 10.0.0.0 network?

that would work right?

>>61640919
what rack is this?

>>61641485
>I have pic related

>>61644795

>>61644715

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>>61644783

I bought it on ebay like 2 years ago. It was called:

"Data Comms IT 15U 600x600 19" SERVER RACK IT CABINET"

I can't find it now though.

>>61644840
ah okay, I was looking for a rack of this size and everything I've seen seemed too big

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>>61644857

Where do you live? I'd be happy to sell it, It's kinda cumbersome. I love it and all, but it's taking too much space and eating too much angry pixies from the wall.

here, ill fix it for you
>>61644806
>>61644715
>>61641485

>>61644911
I live in VA, but dont worry about it

I too do not have the room yet, the space I'm moving to will have enough room but at the moment, I'm just brainstorming a set up

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>>61638987
I just built a rack mount raspi cluster for my server rack.

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>>61644967
Full server rack.

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>>61644967
Isn't that just the most adorable thing ever?

Just put car ears on it and it's gonna melt even the coldest heart.

>>61644967
that looks neato

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>>61644967
it bothers me you don't have one of them plugged in

>>61644737
Anyone? I believe it could work but if anyone knows why it wouldnt, please explain

>>61645237
I appreciate the amount of work this took, the graphics and everything

>>61645261
>>61644737

It would. We use setups like that all over the place at work.

>>61641312
avoid wd and seagate consumer drives.
wd is expensive for no good reasons.

seagate is bipolar in pricing, some are cheap, some are expensive, in the end seagate has the highest hdd failure in the industry, avoid at all cost.

use toshiba. in the past hitachi was also an option but since they are WD now, i'd personally avoid them since WD tends to destroy anything that was once theirs and good.

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>>61644996
This is for you anon
>>61645250
They are all plugged in now, that was a WIP.

>>61645292
>avoid wd
nigga what the fuck thats not even possible
since when has wd been a problem?

>>61645284
ah okay, great

>>61645314
always been a problem, smaller than seagate, but still a problem. they are overpriced, perform average and die relatively fast.

according to backblaze stats HGST is the way to go for consumer grade
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/

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>>61644607
they're modded Cobalt RAQ3 chassis - lcd replaced with coloured ones, leds replaced with coloured ones, buttons rewired - all accessible from GPIO - kept the psus and just tapped the 5v line for power

>>61645237
I really need to put that in a 2 or 3u chassis someday - pop the lcd on the front for shits'n'giggles

>>61645596
can you open one up and show some wiring?

>>61645596
Does anyone happen to have the Zun Microsystems sticker template

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>>61645768
I still can't solder for shit even upteen years later, but it does work

>>61645781
maybe, i'll look - think its one one of my redbubble accounts too

>>61645972
Just found your redbubble, you have some great stuff on there. Next paycheck I will order some stuff!

>>61645972
thanks for showing.

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>>61645781

>>61646004
thank ye - it keeps me in e-cig juice which is pretty cool

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>>61645305

Fucking Amazing.

Where can i get a good server rack?

>>61643280
Thank you man, i'll keep looking around.

What's the purpose of all this retarded shit, aspies?

>>61646985
lack of gf and not getting laid ;_;

>>61647005
Man you could at least pretend a bit before jumping straight to the conclusion

>>61638987
Nice no rails, idiot.

>>61646900
Craigslist. They pop up for free or cheap regularly. You either have to rent a truck or have the seller deliver if you don't have a vehicle that can transport it though.

>>61645574
>Believing BackBlaze HDD stats...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazX-e_HnNI

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My small server: Housed in an atx mid tower case with all network equipment/UPS nearby in an unused corner of my basement. Rigged up some half ass mid height walls to keep my cats away from it all. Roles: Media Server/Client Backups/File Server/IIS (FTP & Remote Web Access)

>>61647700
If you listen to anyone on here in regards to hard drives you are fucking retarded.

>I bought a WD black because /g/ told me to and it works
>I've never owned a seagate but this picture says they are bad so if you buy one you are fucking dumb lmao
>Apparently HGST is the best according to this but you should just buy a WD black like me because they cost more and are the best

Nothing but fanboys and uninformed idiots all around.

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Just a small fileserver which I use as my own personal cloud more or less (using sshfs).

Things not in pic:
Case: U-NAS NSC-400
Motherboard: MSI H110I PRO
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2133
CPU fan: SilverStone Nitrogon NT07-115X

>>61647833
What font is that?

>>61647861
Whatever is default on openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE at the moment I guess. It appears to be "Noto Sans".

>>61647888
Thanks.

>>61644212i
Haha that was my first case too, edgy gamer and all. I bought a new GPU and had to replace it. Ended up selling it to some guy and CL

>>61644967
thats pretty neat. nice work

Should I get a PowerEdge or just build my own server with a server chassis?

>>61644194
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11

>>61648062
Thanks!

for a home server, all you really need is the following: UPS (To shut the server down properly in the event of power failure/to protect against power spikes/surges/etc/to prevent data corruption due to power failure)
Mid tower/Full tower case - No mater the case, make sure it's got enough bays (you can get 5.25 - 3.5 adapters cheap) so you got room to grow. Also plenty of cooling fans/high airflow fans are a must.
Parts - You don't need high end parts for a simple home server. I got by for years with 2004 era components. I finally upgraded the lot (cpu/ram/mobo) last year (2016). What will end up costing the most is your storage. Cause not only do you need storage for your server you also need storage to hold a backup of all your server data plus server system image. Raid - Software or hardware raid, for a home server it doesn't really matter which way you go, both will work fine. Raid 5 will give you good data protection/large data volumes without breaking the bank on storage cost. Raid 1 is great at protection but depending on how much data you have (or plan to have, remember to account for growth) you may be out a lot of money. Raid 10 is a mix of great protection and speed but highly expensive depending on how big a volume you need.

>>61648434
>UPS
I disagree. Unless you're running an unusually large operation this will just be a waste of money.

>>61645596
>>61638987
>1U for a raspberry pi

What the fuck is legitimately wrong with you?

>>61648434
>Mid tower/Full tower cas
nah, I rather have a poweredge

Also a router, switch or 2 for pfsense shit

>>61648434
RAID IS NOT BACKUP
If it ain't offsite it ain't a backup
>>61648530
If your data isn't worth $150 to you, why even save it?

>>61648530
>large operation
Obviously have a UPS all depends on what you are doing with your servers. I host a game server where people can pay for ranks. I wouldn't call it a large operation, but downtime when there is money involved is unacceptable for me and my customers.

>>61648718
Good point. If all you have is a file server or something like that, you're just wasting money.

why would you want to host your own server?
it can be your own private storage and email, but are there other advantages?

>>61648826
Do you need other advantages?

>>61648826
because you can.

>>61648843
I dont know. I just want to know what's possible with it.

I like to read, so thanks to my server and FTP I can just access my e-book collection from work (all e-books are in .pdf/epub or mobi). If I wanted to I could stream videos/music while at work but they (work IT/management) might frown on that little bit of fun

>>61648971
I hope it's SFTP

>>61647700
>>61647759
backblaze provides reasonable stats and i worked 2 1/2 years in a data center to confirm confirm at least for myself, that seagate is the biggest garbage on the planet and wd is just jewing out consumers.

>>61649035
Does your data center use consumer grade HDD, or do they buy special enterprise shit?

Also what file system are they stored on?

>>61649076
Came here to say the same. Muh data center uses consumer grade HDD.

>>61648599
4U would be better.

Why the hell are rack enclosures with 29" depth so expensive?

I'm a total beginner.
Is there a very basic guide on non-consumer server setups?
I'm not a network admin or anything.

I just want a 'proper' setup for my local network.

From what I understand,
1) Buy cabinet
2) Buy rack enclosure
3) Buy some HDD's for the enclosure
4) Buy server ram(how much?)
5) Buy server cpu(What's good?)
6)Connect CAT6 cable to server
7) Put headless server OS on it(zfts)
7.5) Setup server
7.6) Setup RAID for HDD's
8) Access server via shell or directory locally
9) Setup WebGUI for user friendly config

>>61650375

I'm curious as well. I've been building PCs since my first dumpster find 386 when I was a kid, and I've run temporary gameservers from my main machine in the past, but I don't know anything about networking more complicated than forwarding a few ports.

Is there any sort of crash course for home server administration that would be beneficial for someone like me? I have a spare machine (Xeon 3075/6GB/2X 80GB hard drives in RAID1) and while I'd like to put it to some use I'd like to actually have some idea what I'm doing before potentially opening up my home network to any additional vulnerabilities.

>>61638987
Just finished figuring out how to get all of my bullshit running.
>linux computer is firewall/server
>computer has 4 interfaces. two Ethernet ports, 1 bridge, vpn connection
>dhcpd runs on bridge and second ethernet port
>virtual machines are tap devices on bridge
>kvm vms include vps that starts headless on boot, torrenting vms, and a gayming vm + dozens of specific use vms
>wireless N 5ghz router hooked up to second Ethernet port, its ip and dhcp leaves room to add physical switch later
>everything masqueraded to first Ethernet port atm
>working with 4 different ip ranges in the same house
>samba, ftp, dhcpd, shorewall
next step is blacklisting devices on the bridge from communicated to other devices on the bridge and in the 192..1 range.
step after that is figuring out how to route traffic to different interfaces based on destination port, ie torrent traffic, xbox, gaymes go to vpn, http goes to eth1

bonus: one vm is windows embedded with physical graphics card and pci usb 3.0 card passed though. gaymes run in the vm with no noticeable penalties to their performance. VR runs just fine (needs better graphics card)

Windows Home Server 2011 is a pretty nice home server os. (based on 2008r2) It features built in DNLA media streaming, automatic client backups (seriously once you tell it what you want to backup it just works), remote web access for file/media streaming that's encrypted via 256bit https. Also does standard file/print serving. Since it's based on 2008r2 there's a bit more you can do under the hood, such as FTP/VPN/DHCP/and cache dns server. Only complaint is that the built in backup app is kinda limited so using Macrium Reflect v6 fixes that. It's only the second MS os I've bought (cost me like $60-70 back in 2011). The other was Windows 98SE

>>61650375
If you're not looking for much more than a fileserver, take a look at at something like this
>>61647833

>>61651083
Sounds pretty nice. Especially the client backups. Does it include the entire OS? or is it mostly just the user profiles? How does one restore from the backups?

I use time machine and netatalk to backup my mini, and the restore is pretty nice, but I find that it is somewhat unreliable. The backup will randomly break itself, forcing me to start over with a fresh set of backups. Would love something similar (but reliable) for my windows computer too.

>>61643109
But most the i5 HP elites are Au 150+ and I just wanted to have a cheap box to learn more to manage a network. Are they long term support for old versions of pfsence without this?

>>61641617
I've used btrfs raid 10 on my nasbox for a couple years now with no issues.

>>61651346
When you setup your backups, you can select what to backup. So yes you can backup entire volumes, including the boot volume and any gpt volumes to up to a maximum of 2TB per volume/drive. As a bonus, say a client pc goes belly up, well from any other client pc, you can view/mount the dead client's backup to retrieve files or restore them. Full full on system restore it gives you a second recovery cd or you can create a USB thumb stick for recovery purpose. In every client backup, it creates a folder called System recovery drivers (or something like that), just copy each set to a thumb stick, so 3 clients, copy of each one's system drivers on a thumb stick and keep it and the cd in reach. When you start the recovery process it finds your server, prompts for admin password, then allows you to select what client you wish to restore and from what backup date.

>>61651805
Another nice thing is that the backup supports client power management so if a client is asleep, when time comes to run a backup, it'll wake up the client, then once backup is done, tell the client to go back to sleep. You can also select a backup retention policy or tell it to keep a certain backup forever. I've got backups for my clients that go back least a year. You'd think that this would use a ton of space but it don't. The backup copies only files that change since the last backup was done and only a single copy is needed so if you have 10 computers with Windows 7, it only copies a single version of the os files.

why would someone be motivated to build their own home server? what is the benefit/s?

>>61651805
Sounds nice. I should try it out. Restoring from backups like that is much nicer than reinstalling and configuring everything from scratch.

>>61652077
for me(storage focused initially) I could stop putting so many hard drives on my main computer and could have an entire low-power computer dedicated to just storage. I installed arch on it and put all my 3tb drives on it and now I use it as a central hub for programming as well via samba and music streaming and when im away from home I can remotely make it download stuff and do some fun linux programming experiments, porting my stuff to linux.

Gonna be putting a cute 1030 into it so I can do some more headless cuda/gpu programming. It's been an all-around very useful experience that saves me from having my 1000-watt computer one and now 70% of the time I just need my server on and my laptop. And that's just my little story. Some people use it for other stuff like a media server for streaming or something to crack local neighborhood wifi and such.

For me its storage + leeching from my seedbox's + very fun and great learning experience.

Lets be real my niggaz

Most of this is to store porn for the day that torrents and fileshares finally get shut down.

>>61638987
>J1900
>ARMs
>Atoms
>4U J1900 machine
The fuck is wrong with you? Would probably be cheaper to build a 4U, 2P LGA2011 virtualization host

I don't have a whole lot of experience with this stuff, but I'm in a similar situation to this anon.
>>61652199

Trying to move all my drives to another computer, I also use plex though. There's a very small number of people who have access to other it than myself.
What would be a good place to start hardware wise?

>>61653124
you could litterally use any computer

implying you are using windows, it's even easier. have the data you want to be shared on the network in a folder, right click on it and change the sharing properties, if you get it right, everyone on that subnet will have access

But you have to be okay with that computer being on all the time which is why a server is needed.

When I was in college I used to watch shit on my phone accessing my content from class with my laptop on sharing on the campus LAN.

The only thing that would make this tricky is if the people you wanted to connect to were on another network or subnet, or you want to do shit WAN related.

>>61644194
Joyent SmartOS

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Got a old IBM x3650 7979 from my job just laying in my closet, currently running windows cause fuck it.

Been thinking of a poweredge, what does /g/ recommended for xU style servers?

>>61652667
power usage on that thing would be much higher

morning lads,
is rtorrent still best for seedbox?

Is a Dell optiplex 780 with a E8400 for 4o Au bucks a decent deal for learning networking by making something like a pfsence router?

>>61649076
>>61649163
believe it or not, some customers buy consume grade hardware simply because it's cheaper and enterprise stuff exceeds their budget, specially if the company is small. have seen many db clusters running with crucial mx100 because enterprise grade ssds are way to expensive.

nearline sas drives are expensive for no good reason and consume grade sata drives are good enough for backup storage as enterprise ones. speaking about ROI etc

>Came here to say the same. Muh data center uses consumer grade HDD.
shows you never worked in the field, absolutely no clue how IT in the real world works. stay on /g/ and pretend to know what's up kiddo :^)

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>>61649076
>>61656685
>have seen many db clusters running with crucial mx100 because enterprise grade ssds are way to expensive.
They're not, pic related. And I hope those assholes like corrupted data due to their order of magnitude higher non-recoverable read errors.

>>61649035
>backblaze
kill yourself

>>61644967
>tying data cables in knots
>just having cables run out the back
>having no uplink for your switch

>>61644840
>only using 3 screws

>>61644737
>I'm certified in networking twice
you clearly aren't if you're asking dumb questions like that and think double natting it in this situation is a good idea

>>61644194
ESXi

>>61644099
>still using a 3750
>using thin network cables

>>61644069
>Cisco 3750g 24 port
You do realize that your pic doesnt have this, its a 3560

>Future plans are to… get a 48 port Gb switch
And that a 3750G is a Gb switch. And you would be better off spending like the $20 more for the 3750E so you have a couple 10Gb ports. Or if you dont mind the noise, a HPE 5800 which can have up to 8 10Gbe ports plus all the 1Gb ports

>>61641581
The limit is 8 vCPUs on the free edition. You can find ESXi and vCenter keygens easily enough.

>>61656566
It's still developing, latest git revisions work with PHP 7.0, so yes.

>just opened up SSH over the internet

I used a non-standard port to reduce spam and set it up to require keys to login. Hope that's enough.

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>>61657905
>I used a non-standard port

>>61657965
>to reduce spam

A few people trying to spam the port is better than thousands doing it.

>>61638987
question: do you guys really set up a server and pay for residential internet service?

>>61658198
not every server is a web server, or even internet facing.

>>61657905
Just use fail2ban or something similar.

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>Not using a glorious UltraSPARC-driven Sun Enterprise 250 as your homeserver

>>61658525
I have two Blade 1000s, they're lovely machines, but each pulls more than 3 x my entire rack >>61639514

which is just way too much

Are there any decent raspberry pi cases that can hold 2 2.5" HDDs?

I just want a 2-HDD server in the smallest possible package.

>>61638987
Why would you have a home server thread for hosting your own internet services and then use a proprietary cloud chat service rather than host your own? Seems a little disingenuous to shill discord in a home server thread.

>>61648718
Do you actually make money off of that?

>>61656566
Yes. Also flexget has an rtorrent plugin so you can automate downloads.

anybody got a tutorial for setting up a active directory domain controller? i'm a brainlet.

>>61657161
>tying data cables in knots
>just having cables run out the back
>having no uplink for your switch

Its not done dummy. I just stuck in a USB PSU in the back, and cut a bunch of new ethernet cables to size, and ran an uplink cable through the back panel when I connected it to the switch.

>>61652546
thats what i use it for

>>61639514
Nice MicroServers sempai

>>61658155

A large part of Chinese, Romanian and Russian culture revolves around typing root@randomIP into shells.
Disabling ChallengeResponse auth, root login and >>61658468 should be secure enough.
Might add some port knocking for tinfoil reasons.

>>61661828

Literally just click enter to win in the server manager.
Or use 2008 R2 and just run dcpromo

>>61663855
or just configure iptables to accept connections only from your ip/isp

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probably will break down and buy a half sized rack in a month or so

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>>61664830

>>61657161

>You do realize that your pic doesnt have this, its a 3560

You were so quick to spout mindless garbage that you missed two things:

1) You were too mentally inept to determine the 3560 you see has no network connections and clearly is not in use.

2) >>61644099 and >>61644069 are the same post and the 3750 is clearly in use.

Also,

>still using a 3750
>using thin network cables

Nothing wrong with either of these, especially in a home lab.

>>61644485
this
it just works and does the job and is simple, no need to LARP a big enterprise sysadmin by using jewware esxi on your home servers

>>61665005

TFW you realize a big enterprise sysadmin runs openstack and uses kvm

VMware is too expensive senpai

>>61665046
OpenStack is pretty cool, but it's a bitch to set up and has so many pieces that can break
Currently building a lab with OS on RHEL, and I want to run kubernetes and docker on top of it