Show me your servers you cocksniffing arsepirates. We used to have regular HSG threads so let's get one going again.
Post pics, specs, uses and OS setups.
This is my little ubuntu shitbox. I use it mainly for converting videos, plex, centralised backups for all my shitposting devices and desktops and a couple of VMs.
Xeon E3 1240v2 16niggabytes of RAM LSI SAS HBA 120gb sandisk SSD 4x4TB WD memereds which I regret 3x3TB toshibas and a 3tb external toshiba drive
The WD Reds are running a raid10 using mdadm and the toshibas are running a spanned LVM volume as backup. Planing on getting a second SAS enclosure and running the WDs spanned with a second set in the enclosure.
Maybe one for /sqt/ but is it possible to set up a server 100% headlessly or will there always be a need to connect it to a physical display at some point? I've never understood that.
Carter Butler
Do you see a screen connected to mine?
Either you set it up with a screen and setup some sort of remote management, remote desktop, SSH or what I do is use webmin which is a web based interface to control everything.
I can do whatever I have to do from any device I'm on, phone, tablet, desktop or laptop.
Ayden Bell
Here you go, my Microserver g8.
Currently running sonarr, deluge and a plex(it's shit btw, planning on ditching it) in lxc containers
Lincoln Fisher
Forgot to add, once youre done you can obviously remove the screen.
Most server hardware has iLO or IPMI or whatever theyre called. Basically a dedicated ethernet port to manage the server and hardware. Accessible via browser, I can install OS, change bios settings, remote view the screen (even when there is none attached) and shutdown & power up etc.
Ethan Myers
What's wrong with plex? The only time I had trouble with it was my GFs shitty xbox but that's more to do with the application than plex itself. Even the PS3 does a fuckload of paging when loading thumbnails which brings it to a crawl when browsing my library.
I wish Plex would implement a volume normaliser though.
Zachary Scott
It doesn't play any of my media through the web browser for one. And The error message is just vague as fuck.
Oh apparently using the "plex.lan" address(works with every other device in my network) to reach the server counts as an external server so I have to login WHICH LOSES THE SERVER FOR SOME REASON
The devs are retards too, literally catering to the apple crowd.
Gonna try Emby instead soon. Just using simple Samba shares for now.
Jonathan Flores
Maybe I phrased it badly, but I meant is a display ALWAYS required at SETUP? Or can the setup be done headlessly (using a network somehow)?
Jose Bailey
>tfw still waiting for a next-gen microserver
Daniel Lopez
This might be a dumb question but I want a server for Plex and some coding and just to dick around with but I only have a desktop. Can I just set up a Linux distribution in a VM and make a samba share and set up Plex in there? Can I point to my local drives?
Matthew Anderson
I haven't come across any of those issues my man. Are you streaming some kind of 64bit chink cartoons?
Most enterprise gear has remote administration via ethernet port so you can see the screen on another machine. On mine I can log into it through the browser, mount an .iso file from the desktop I logged in from and from there install an OS. I can remote view the screen too but it's a piece of shit java applet or .net so I only use it when I absolutely have to.
Logan Thomas
iktf
Don't think it'll happen though. It's easier and cheaper to just buy used hardware. The gen8 is going for £170 and less in some places though so I might pick up another one. It's literally cheaper to buy a gen8 microserver than some 4bay external drive solution.
Of course you can. You can share folders or drives from your OS to VMs and vice-versa.
William Johnson
>It's literally cheaper to buy a gen8 microserver than some 4bay external drive solution.
>add SAS pci-e card to the first one >enjoy 8-bay NAS
Nathan Rogers
VM's are in fact separate computers. It's not completely true but you can treat them as such. This means that there is functionally no difference between buying a server or launching a VM.
For learning it's really nice.
Jordan Murphy
Well that's exactly what I did, look at the OP picture. It's a SAS enclosure.
Unfortunately that's the only 4bay one I could find that was a complete chink product by some no name company. I could have bought a dell powervault md1000 with 12x3.5 drive bays for probably £100 but theyre fucking loud, enormous and overkill.
Plus I hate the idea of having so much data on one device. If anything I'd have two of them and mirror them but it just costs too much to buy drives.
Brayden Carter
>inb4 1minute uptime
Jonathan Hughes
I always leave my desktop on so really there's no difference right? Maybe degraded performance since it's a VM?
Ian Hill
VM overhead depends on hardware but for your use you won't notice anything.
Jose Hall
Depending on your hardware the VM's don't have direct access to the host hardware(if you want this you'll need IOMMU, but you'll know if you need it) and the performance will be lower then barebones.
This means that you'll be prompted to use a virtual drive(just a file on the host) to use on the guest.
Jose Nelson
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Leo Morris
>Geforce 6200 [TRIGGERED]
Ethan Russell
Cool, thanks guys. Debian the go to for a basic file server / Plex?
Jordan Perez
It refuses to boot without a video card since x58 has no onboard video. It's actually a PCI card since I was out of PCIe slots.
Jayden Moore
That was my first "gaming" card more then a decade ago. I spent money "upgrading" from a Geforce 5200. You can understand why it pisses me off.
CloudatCost 22 CPUs, 18GB ram, 600GB drive space Bitcoin, Pay Per Click, Pay Per Install OpenVPN, Tor Exit Node
Jace James
I use Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS because I'm a successful white man, you know, NOT A NIGGER.
Kevin Johnson
>CloudatCost What's the catch? 35 bucks for a tor + vpn and potentially other services sounds awesome
Josiah James
my plex server has about 15 people on it at a time watching with no issues. Something is wrong with yours buddy.
Sebastian Howard
>Uses an OS that is actually called UBUNTU >named after a fucking nigger word >not a nigger
Cameron Jones
Maybe you should mention if they are transcoding video or if they are streaming directly. One h264 1080p transcode eats up about 2000 passmark points of CPU, so my regular Intel Xeon E3-1230 can only take max 4 concurrent transcodes.
Austin James
also no raid or backups. i have a tape drive tho but no tapes yet.
Nathan Sanders
It's a PS3 issue. It doesn't give enough ram for applications so all the thumbnails get swapped to the slow as fuck HDD. There is nothing wrong with my plex server.
I'm waiting on 8 6 TB drives. Is ZFS RAIDZ3 good for these drives?
Jason Sullivan
How do you print information like this?
Ryan Thomas
Hope you got ECC RAM in there, otherwise it should be all good.
Zachary Reed
Is there a wiki for setting up a hone server?
I've got an old tower that I want to put to good use.
Oliver Powell
inxi
The motherboard is supposed to support ECC memory. I have ECC RAM in it, but it says no handle provided in dmidecode, so I have no idea if it's working. EDAC is compiled in the kernel, and injecting an error made ce_count increment. cat /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/ce_count 0
also >/etc corrupted what should i panic right about now?
Dylan Perry
The catch is their support.. Its shitty but then again I really haven't had too many issues so I don't need their support anyways. Connectivity sometimes gets lost but all I do is reboot and I'm fine. Personally, you can't go wrong for a one time payment in the cloud. Makes a great cheap web server. $35 one time and then Namecheap $0.88/year. Voila
Tyler Collins
Lifehacker has an article on turning old computers into servers. I use my Lenovo W520 as an esxi server and runs really well.
Also, the wiki like he suggested
Hunter Perry
Can you nuke your server and start over easily in case you fuck up bad? Because I might just use this as a learning platform for my little brother.
Hunter Johnson
Absolutely. Just delete your server and spin up another one at anytime. This would be a perfect way for your brother to develop or program off of if that is what you are trying to achieve.
Connor Bennett
GNU/Server/PC/Bed
Christian Edwards
I could survive on this
Jeremiah Bailey
It's the hygiene that ticks me off. I would live in a square room with just a computer, a bed, a desk and some of my electric tools + toilet/bathroom. But that? Fuck no.
Jose Walker
could someone point me in the direction of a guide on setting up a home server? i have no familiarity with this sorta thing, but i think i'd like to learn.
Cameron Harris
>SAMSUNG_HD204UI Damn
Cooper Davis
>home server
My workstation is my server. Saves power, faster disk access, less expensive overall, smaller, less noise, less heat.
Samuel Stewart
What does memtest86+ tell you? I also have the "Error Information Handle: Not Provided" message for each Memory Bank, but a clearer indication from dmidecode --type memory should be: Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: Single-bit ECC
also Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits
shows that you have the 1 byte available for error correction.
Ethan Turner
That looks like a storage unit...
Brody Long
Now that you mention it.. Yeah fuck that. I prefer a comfy room and office chair as well.
Ok but do you run any server services? My Plex reaches up to 28GB of ram and my Minecraft server has reached close to 6GB so this is why I have other things hosting these services so that my workstation isn't getting blogged down.
Angel Evans
Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: Multi-bit ECC Maximum Capacity: 32 GB Error Information Handle: Not Provided Number Of Devices: 4
Handle 0x002F, DMI type 17, 34 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x002D Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 72 bits Data Width: 64 bits
I'm assuming it's working. I never tried running these on Xeon workstations though.
Logan Rivera
OS: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.4.0-45-generic Uptime: 2d 8h 59m Packages: 1077 Shell: bash 4.3.46 CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 CPU @ 3.3GHz RAM: 3467MiB / 11887MiB basically my old desktop with few other spare parts threw in. 120gb sata for system/vms/data, 2 tb wd green for more data. 120 gb msata ssd for backups. 4 port hp branded intel gigabit nic for vms to have dedicated ports.
runs samba, deluge and vms (windows to not install/run shit on my desktop and another guiless ubuntu to mess with)
low uptime because of planned restart. i do them like once a month-two.
Jonathan Watson
>Ok but do you run any server services? My Plex reaches up to 28GB of ram and my Minecraft server has reached close to 6GB so this is why I have other things hosting these services so that my workstation isn't getting blogged down. I can if I want. I have 128GB of RAM and 44cores. I dick around with a few VMs here and there. I used to run a minecraft server (still have the files, but it's like on 1.7 or something - started it at 1.1ish). I usually consume 'media' directly on the computer, so no need to have a transcoding server or any of that. Plus all the files are shared if I want to remotely access them. Gaming is on a separate rig.
I used to have lots of systems for this, that, and other things... but a few years ago I consolidated down to save power mostly. It was cheaper to just keep one system with all my usual needs in it. Game rig is only on when I play games.
Ayden Campbell
How would I go about starting and logging into my server remotely? I know theres got to be a way to do this.
>How would I go about starting and logging into my server remotely? Setup a VPN on your router. DD-WRT will let you do it.
>user share your build right now pcpartpicker.com/b/b8LD4D I know I have ES CPUs. I get berated every tiem I poast.
Ryder Phillips
How does your plex reach 28GB usage? Can you elaborate on what kind of users you get?
Owen Cox
Depends. You can either use SSH, RDP, or VNC. If you are wanting to remote into your home network from outside, you'll need a free dynamic IP or a static IP address. Then, configure port forwarding from your router to point to your server's static IP address.
Daniel Perez
I had a home server but those jerks at the FBI took it away.
On an unrelated note, vote for hillary! Shes the cyber security candidate!
It's model-specific and the registers for AMD are likely different.
Asher Foster
I average between ~24-26 users. On slow nights, I've seen between ~4-12 users.
Intel i7 4790K OC @ 4.8Ghz 32GB DDR3 Ram Network share to NetGear ReadyNAS with 16TB
Plan on moving it to: 2x Intel Xeon L5520 16 Cores total 48GB Ram DDR3 24TB RAID 10 SAN
Logan Lee
How do you handle transcoding clients? I know for a fact that most users are lazy shits that once get plex access, only use the fucking browser as a player, and constantly trigger transcodes. And I don't think the 4790k can take more than 5-6 transcodes.
Zachary Perry
Who the fuck do you give it to?
Michael Harris
>I had a home server but those jerks at the FBI took it away.
LOL. How come you aren't in federal pound me in the ass prison?
Leo Scott
Transcoder is set to automatic. That sounds about right.. My workstation was getting slow when I had about 8 streaming at once.
Only close friends and family members I trust.
Samuel Sanders
Nice build! Can't believe you found those engineer cpu samples. Going to look into those.
Josiah Young
Thats definitely a storage unit. I can tell because of the pixels and the door
Easton Perez
Archive is a 4x2TB RAID5 configuration for my private tracker torrents. Horo is the leftover space on my 1.5TB boot drive. I use it as external storage for my Mac. Storage is a 4TB drive I use for downloading on public trackers.
Christopher Williams
3x2TB actually.
Ryder Nelson
I don't have any fancy server hardware or web interfaces on my home server, just a consumer Haswell build with a 4570S, managed via good ol' SSH. It's served me well so far, running 6x3TB WD Reds in RAID6, recently bought a PERC H310 and crossflashed it, will probably add 3 more drives in the future. I'm a bit worried about not having ECC and running mdadm instead of ZFS, but this was what I could get. Finding affordable server hardware (or server hardware in general) that's also power efficient and can run quietly is pretty much impossible where I live, so I'm making the best of it with what I was able to get. As for actual functionality, there's nothing that I wanted to do that I couldn't so far and it only draws like 50W too!
Jason Harris
Did you just take a picture with your phone?
Nolan Ramirez
I run most of my stuff locally but I got a free $50 credit to digital ocean so started up q VPS and got ZNC working on it. What other cool stuff can I do that would be good to have on a VPS?
Jaxson Cook
It's a garage, you dip!
Brayden Walker
What SAS card are you using to connect the silverstone box?
Gabriel Campbell
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Carson Harris
Why are you asking such a dumb question?
Nicholas Diaz
Where's your Backup?
Jordan Perez
External USB drive. I'm not going to pay for offsite storage. That's fucking stupid when I could just redownload all my stuff.
Luis Bell
>Finding quiet server hardware
Almost impossible. They all use those shitty fucking 60mm fans everywhere. Apart from your average tower server which can be okayish noise wise they're built to be in their own room.
Best thing you can do is go with a case of your choosing, a supermicro board with a xeon and you have your server grade hardware.
Luke Lewis
Put the server in a closet somewhere and wire it up.
Ryder Anderson
my dl380 is quieter than my normal desktop
Noah Perez
Got a plex server on my desktop. Want to move it to it's own server, what's the most cost effective way to do that? Pre-built from ebay?
Only occasionally transcode, all my tvs are 720p,most of my stuff is mp4 so it direct plays
I kinda like super compact form factors
Nathan Hill
Doesnt have to be offsite. I've gotten a very expensive habit of buying drives in pairs and duplicating my data. I backup my 8tb raid10 array for example.
Xavier Evans
Where's the autist that bought the huge pile of shit from his school after being told they were going to pay somebody to dispose of it?
