He doesn't have a home server

>he doesn't have a home server

Summer's over lads. It's time to leave.

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>live in australia
>0.8 upload speed

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

give me 1 good reason to use it.

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

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post it then

I want to see it

>what is fun

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

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

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

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

i have 2

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

>HOME server
>HOME

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

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

then link all three DUH

neat

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

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

...

poweredge*

woop

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

it can be

it doesn't have to be friend

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

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

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

nonfree.pizza
The original reason for the site

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

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

>he doesn't host his own website

get a load of this dumb faggot

For what purpose?

My home server is a netbook

nonfree.pizza/
Love your site bro.

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

kek

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

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

nonfree.pizza/hook.js

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

This was probably a bad investment.

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

Its a home server, and everything else.

>tfw the botnet wants me to starve

Host my shit

Sure bro, how much are you offering

10 hits/month

Kanon?

"no"

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

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

what made you choose nginx

>Will I ever get laid?

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

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

I host a few personal sites and a Sup Forums archive on it, works surprisingly well.

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

>inb4 arch on a server
It just werks

owo where you got that little lenovo guy from

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

Take the power cord and hang yourself with it

backup data you dont wanna lose

download EVERYTHING because why not?

host websites for fun, host a media server

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

The possibilities are endless.

store all your personal iphone sex videos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

what kind of fucking question is that?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

man that lopoks compfy as fuck pham

you can do this with a $10 goodwill computer

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

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

what OS did you install plex on?

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

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

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

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

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

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

are those two huge adapters used for your headphones?

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

Is there a good guide on long-lived hardware?

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

holy shit

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

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

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

I should turn this shit off, yes?

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

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

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

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

work in progress, need to buy some drives

I have absolutely no use for a home server

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

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

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

>BLADEWOLF

wow super cool are you a hacker

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

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

Using that server for ACF and Wire autism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

who vcenter / esxi here?

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

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

start /hsg/ again

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

Right now i have:

Plex / Mumble / Subsonic / Calibre / Web Server

Minecraft / Terraria / Killing Floor 2

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

No, because time.

Though maybe in a while.

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

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

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

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

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

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

install gentoo (literally)

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