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Home server General

>What hardware are you using
>What do you use it for
>Pro's & Con's

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No pics atm but

Hardware:
>2x E5340 Xeons
>Intel SPL5000 board
>Rosewill 4U Rackmount case
>16GB DDR2
>850 boot ssd; 4x1TB blues for data

Uses:
>PlexMS
>DNS, DHCP, etc.
>virtualization (The main host runs proxmox)

Thinkserver ts 130
2x 2tb wd black
16gb ram
Ubuntu 16.04
Plex and pihole and occasionally a VM

>Fractal R5
>5930k
>64gb 2133mhz HyperX Fury
>Asus X99 Deluxe
>4x WD Red 3tb (Raid 5, network shared etc)
>1x WD Green 2tb (for random storage)

Uses:
>PlexMS
>Cloud storage (seafile)
>Teamspeak Server

the reason behind its beefy specs is mainly because i don't have to worry about money but it's also streaming/uploading&downloading etc to over 15 people. (family and friends)

>What hardware are you using
i5 4570s
12GB DDR3
Dell PERC H310 flashed to HBA
6x3TB WD Red (soon to be 9), mdadm RAID6
Debian Jessie
>What do you use it for
Emby
Subsonic
Samba
TS3 server
OpenVPN
rTorrent + ruTorrent
Proxy server (through SSH dynamic port fwd)

>Pros
More than sufficient performance
Low power (50-60W idle)
Quiet, almost completely inaudible
>Cons
No ECC, not much else that I'd actually care about

What's with the fancy-looking graphics card? Is it actually something modern/fast that you're using or just some old card you threw in there?

Hardware:
>Goodwill edu-2009 iMac, 2.24GhZ, 4GB ram
>5x 1tb Western Digital Black drives in FireWire 800 enclosures
OS
>Ubuntu server for izi pizi installs
Uses
>Plex
>Mobile backups
>Occasional home VPN routing
>Piracy
Pros:
>FireWire 800 is faster than USB 3 and makes cable management easier
>It never has to be headless because the machine is the display
>Even though it's a Mac, I haven't had any trouble finding drivers for everything. The Bluetooth even works on it.
>Works for what I need it to do
>Was super cheap because OSX 10.12 ran like ass on it
Cons:
>Extremely low ceiling for base system upgradability
>FireWire enclosures are becoming harder to find
>I saturate the FireWire and the built-in 10/100 ethernet card on a single Blu-Ray quality stream.
>No ECC

I literally just finished assembling my soon-to-be home server.

>What hardware are you using
Supermicro motherboard+case with Kingston RAM

>What do you use it for
Self-hosted cloud server with OwnCloud
File backup by using cron to copy my data to a backup HDD on a weekly basis

>Pros & cons
Can't say much since I haven't really used it yet, but the mini-ITX form factor is great for just tucking it away somewhere.

>>What hardware are you using
1xOrange PI PC
1xOrange PI PC+
Basically smartphone grade stuff.
>>What do you use it for
Owncloud
Email
VPN to home from public WiFi
Homepage
Hosting a few of my own webapps

>FireWire 800 is faster than USB 3 and makes cable management easier
What? Isn't FireWire 800 just 800Mbps? The slowest kind of USB 3 is 5Gbps.

Hardware
>Dell r710
>Dual x5650
>64gb ram
>H200
>250gb SSD for main VM's
>2 640gb WD Black's raid0 for VM testing/temp files
>4 2tb WD Red's for storage

Uses
>ESXi
>Pfsense
>Pihole
>FreeNAS
>OpenVPN. I stay over at friends dorms a lot so it's nice to be able to VPN back home and grab any files I need
>Plex w/ Sonarr/Radarr/Filebot for automation
>LAMP
>Owncloud (Not properly setup yet)
>Windows Home server 2011 for backing up parent's laptops

I bought this thing instead of a gaming PC last summer. Don't regret it one bit.

>want to build NAS to store anime
>remember my internet is shit

I'm wanting to get into this.

If any anons are feeling generous, what would be the best bang for my buck it my budget's $500?

My use case will be setting up a GNU-social server (for my local metropolitan area) and a git server.

What do you anons do about noise, just put everything in the garage or get quiet fans?

>FireWire 800 is faster than USB 3

No it isn't.

>I saturate the FireWire and the built-in 10/100 ethernet card on a single Blu-Ray quality stream.

Bluray is ~40mbps at best, usually 20mbps. How could that possibly saturate a firewire 800 link?

Also a 2009 imac has gigabit ethernet built in

I think you're just making shit up

What are good resources for me to learn about how to get started with servers?

Hardware:

Celery 3.06GHz
256MB DDR
16GB Compact Flash
3 x DVB-S/2 Tuner

Uses:

Serves Satellite TV (IPTV) to the network.

Pros:

All hardware was free expect the tuners and compact flash.

Cons:

Catches fire when descrambling more than 2 channels. Probably uses too much electric as well.

>My use case will be setting up a GNU-social server (for my local metropolitan area)
If you want to host some real service for a number of real people outside of yourself and those in your household you may want to consider some other option than a home server. When you're hosting public services like that you'd normally want to have a serious look at having a decent guarantee of availability and you'll also want to look into security very seriously (hosting a LAN-only server is much less exposed, obviously).

A home just isn't the most adequate place for something like that, you probably won't have any sort of backup in place if there's a power outage, internet connection failure or even hardware failure (as in another system to take over immediately). The whole point of HOME servers is to deploy services which are useful in your home and which take advantage of the environment - for instance file and media servers which are accessible over a very fast local network. Being accessible from outside is just a cherry on top. If your main goal is to host a website meant to be accessible to the general public you should probably look for proper hosting and not a home server.

>Orange Pi Zero
>Owncloud, VPN, Seedbox, "NAS" with a 2TB HDD, PiHole
>It's cheap as fug, uses a generic phone charger, works fine for my personal needs and the processor never goes to full usage with all of that running simultaneously so it's alright. However the Wi-Fi is so shit i disabled it.

>What hardware are you using
A Raspberry Pi
>What do you use it for
I was using it as a webserver but the port forwarding on my router wasn't working. Then I think I fixed that problem but I forgot the password to the Pi.

>What are good resources for me to learn about how to get started with servers?

thanks for all the advice guys

Got a new switch, a Netgear JGS524Ev2 since my old TP Link died.

I'd still like to compact things a bit.


>What hardware are you using
Listed in pic related.
>What do you use it for
Various things, mostly being a shut-in.
>Pro's & Con's
Eh, it's nice to have the level of control over my traffic.
Power usage is a con hence why I'm trying to downsize to smaller devices that use less power.

You should make a LackRack, starting with the switches. wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

I agree, I've pondered the idea for a few years now. Probably will here once I get my house since I have to redo the wiring anyways.

Just built & set mine up yesterday, it's also acting as a HTPC
Hardware:
>years-old parts from PC upgrades - i5-760, some EVGA mobo, 4GB ddr3
>64GB ssd for debian, 18TB various hdds storage
Uses:
>Plex, H@H, torrents
>LAN backup for family's computers
>Local playback on TV
Pros:
>can finally stop using main PC for plex/torrents/space heater
>somehow 4GB ram is enough (it's only ever in use by 1-2 devices at once)
Cons: hdmi audio doesn't work, just using an aux cable for now

I'll spoonfeed you, most of Sup Forums's servers are just specialized linux boxes
has the resources you need, download an Ubuntu livecd to start playing around

Hardware:
>IBM T61s laptop
>T7700
>2GB DDR2L
>160GB 5400RPM drive w/ BBQLinux + grsec 4.9.0

Uses:
>'remote' wakeonlan for my workstation without port forwarding
>OpenConnect & OpenVPN+stunnel/slh (for Windows/MacOS clients), Wireguard (Linux clients)
>USB attached NAS via sshfs+SFTP/SMB
>Print server
>mpd
>git server for backups
>DNSMasq, obfs4 bridge
>Squid
>Pi Hole
>mumble server
nginx serves a gateway but only on LAN. It's bretty good and runs off of an old 65W charger, but I run it headless and hit all the rfkill switches as well as nulled the sound cards to save some extra power, but having the head room is pretty nice. Using an old router w/ ddwrt as a switch.

>tfw crashed it trying to run docker images.

Microserver Gen8 Entry
2x4TB HGST (for now, adding more later)
File storage + torrents
Debian 9 + SnapRAID
Haven't installed it yet, waiting for a power cable for my 120GB SSD to arrive. I hope it isn't too noisy.

>What hardware are you using
See pic
>What do you use it for
See pic
>Pro's:
>Free because I found it in the storage room
>Good specs, extra connector for a second HDD
>I had a 1TB HDD laying around that I installed so now I have 1200GB
>Con's:
>Noisy

What does your Internet have to do with a NAS on your LAN?

what's the torrent client with a good web interface for a seedbox?

what can I do with a cpu that gets 66 points on cinebench multithreaded, has 10/100 ethernet, 2 ram slots and no expansion slots whatsoever?

and trowing it in the trash is not an option, either use it or leave it to pile up dust

Deluge's WebUI works fine for me.

vpn, webserver, torrent client, file server, however consider that it probably uses a lot of power

pine64

i2p router
irc bouncer

what software do you use for the IPtv

Hes obviously retarded, speak in simple words.

Interested in that 4U rosewill friend. Specifically the hotswap model. Anything you'd advise?

postin'

and his friend

>11m uptime
>root

Here's some advice:
You can often get a """"home server""""" running on an older laptop.

This is usually the cheapest option and it provides some of the uptime benefits of what an actual server would have (like built in UPS if you have a functional battery, built in kvm, easily storable, good I/O for expansion).

Ofcourse this might not meet everyone's computing, storage, and expansion needs but it's a good start and is very nice on your electric bill. I don't personally use a laptop but I have seen it as a good solution with other anons in this thread. You don't need a loud expensive vacuum cleaner to get your services and networked storage up and running on a good GNU/Linux instance

That's case looks pretty good, where did you get the other hdd cage?

>Supermicro motherboard+case with Kingston RAM
Nice. Supermicro is price to performance king imo . Years of uptime with no problems on my unit

Pic related runs proxmox
>48GB ram
>six drive array, don't remember type but usable space is 2.5TB

Have a supermicro 1u atom system running pfsense

Looking to add a large file server to use for proxmox storage backend. Will probably try FreeNAS for that. Also hopefully add 10gb nics.

R A R E

Nice find my dude.


For me its a Lenovo TS140 with 16GB of RAM running Proxmox. VMs include OpenVPN, Ubiquiti Unifi Controller, Siacoin farmer, and Storj farmer.

I recently redid my lab so I don't have many services up. I also used to do a ZFS pool but the RAM overhead is too much for me. Plan on getting seafile and emby going soon here.

>NET
ADSL
1mb/s down
.01mb/s up
Kill me

>HP Micro
2TB, 3x1TB
OVM
Transmission
Samba
Backups
It works okay

>900HA
Ubuntu server 14.04 (i think)
CUPS print server and ssh box
It does the job

>Second gen i7 Lenovo laptop
LTSB 10
Downloads from seedbox
Youtube downloader
Media Encoder
Other windows stuff
>Router
DIR-615
DD-WRT

QoS tab keeps 404ing after I tried to add something, I might try loading pfsense on a netbook and see how that goes.

Also, does LTSB still work after the 90 days, does it just say activate, or stop working entirely?

.1mb/s up*

i3-540
16 gb ram
1x 320gb wd
2x 3tb seagate

vmware esxi with 2 vms:
1. pfsense - router, openvpn
2. freebsd - zfs storage, smb, nfs, iscsi, pxe boot, torrents

2nd server, used to be my main machine:
i7-2600k
16 gb ram
1x 1tb hgst

OmniOS with 3 zones:
1. plex
2. subsonic
3. zoneminder

Previously had cluster of 3 HP T610 Thin clients.
2x1.6GHz AMD G-T56n passively cooled CPUs
16GB RAM
2x2TB 2,5" HDDs, 1x120GB DOM Intel SSDs
(each)

Now purged all this shit and just moved everything into VMs. My laptop is almost never undocked, so it handles all this shit just fine.
i7-3740qm, 16GB RAM, 2TB HDD, 480GB SSD.

Debian with MumuDVB + OSCAM.

Do you run pfsense in a container, I have wondered how, could you link to the stuff you use?

Upgrade that Owncloud to Nextcloud, it's a drop-in replacement

A cheap, sub-$100 1U Dell poweredge server.

*Rutorrent
*Plex
*Couchpotato
*SickRage
*Nextcloud
*Kimchi

Quite inefficient , but electricity is cheap.where I live. Having two network cards and a bunch of unused drive bays feel wasteful as hell, tho.

What all does the Storj Farmer entail? I did a quick search and it seems that you are essentially renting out hdd space. But I'd like to hear your account on using it.

Dell r710
>2x Xeon E5645
>64GB RAM
>2x 2TB SAS
Usage: Proxmox HV
>Grafana
>Windows7 RDP
>pyLoad VM
>OPNsense With OpenVPN for Remote Access
>Nextcloud (Port Forward with cert)
>ZNC
>PiHole
>MYSQL with phpMyAdmin
>qBittorrent-nox
>Docker
>Spotify Download Machine
>Media Wiki for Documentation
>Windws Server 2012 for learning and testing
HP Microserver gen8
>OpenmediaVault
>4x 3TB RAID 5
>4TB External via USB 3.0
>Data grave + Backup
RPI3
>OpenELEC

TODO:
>Rack my stuff
>configuring Grafana right
>Planning to get this one with 22x4TB +2x SSD but need to save up money first
ebay.com/itm/322436686346
want to put UNRAID on this one

I hope your owncloud is up to date, old ownclouds are very insecure, you can test your installation here
scan.nextcloud.com/
works for owncloud, too

See Radarr for replacing CouchPotato, it's a fork of Sonarr.

ARMHF ARMEL AARCH64 ATOM MIPS ATHEROS GEODE

FreeDOS 1.2 Using Invisible Network and Mystic, no firewalls coz MS 16Bit Protected Mode is for pussies!
Fedora Workstation 25 with Maxxinteractive because it's SGI & wayland nigga!
Use it for browsing Sup Forums and reading about burning towers in the UK & US and reading about satanic rituals involving the C language of course.

Hardware:
>Chenbro SR10769 5U tower chassis
>Dual Intel E5-2620V4 processors
>16GB DDR4 ECC registered RAM
>LSI 9207-8i / 9207-4i4e SAS controllers
>Intel X710-DA2 SFP+ 10GbE adapter
>Nvidia Quadro K420 2GB

Pros:
>16 physical cores on tap w/ hyper threading
>80 PCI-E total lanes combined
>two 10 gigabit ethernet ports via SFP+
>support for Serial Attached SCSI drives
>ECC memory for software raid
>hot swap drive bays for fucking days
>1000W PSU for future expansion

Cons:
>has more power than I'll ever be capable of utilizing
>definitely could have scaled back on some parts ( new enterprise shit is expensive)
>the case literally weighs over 50 pounds by itself and is almost impossible to move
>SAS backplanes only capable of 6gb/s speeds
>piss poor quadro I got for cheap, will eventually replace
>still need to add more memory for quad channel.

I built this machine with the intent of experimenting, so I'd really appreciate some recommendations or ideas on how to max it out.

It's not technically, in fact it is nowhere near theoretical throughput of USB-3, however maybe he meant since USB is dependent on CPU overhead and FireWire is a dedicated channel, he meant more consistent as opposed to faster?

i think it's a quadro FX 4600
just threw it in so i could check bios etc.

my main computer has the exact same case but only 1HDD so i left the 3HDD cage in it and took out the 5HDD cage.

see some usecases here

Yah you just spin up the daemon and specify the amount you want to share and the payment wallet. Same with Siacoin which I personally think is better.

Using a huge core2duo server that's loud as fuck running fedora server as a Plex server at a buddies house since he has better internet.

Probably going to upgrade to an optiplex 990 if I can get one for cheap so I can host a modded mc server as well. My buddies and I are getting the itch again, no judge pls.

Also we might end up making some money from donations.

Sounds pretty easy, how much are you netting from it?

Since ryzen CPUs are ECC compatible, is getting a suitable ITX motherboard with a ryzen 3 CPU for a NAS logical?

Good choice. Got 8 R730 at a data center nearby. Shit is so cash.

would be interesting for me, too

Anyone know of how to tie a host name to an SSL certificate without having to have the server run on a domain? Also how common are MiTM attacks?

amd turned off ecc support on ryzen for some reason

the motherboards have the traces for it, but the cpus can't use ecc ram at ecc mode

AFAIK CPUs support ECC but most motherboard manufacturers didn't implement it in their designs so it shouldn't be a problem if you have a good motherboard. Do you have a link?

Should I? Owncloud seems to have better apps.

what apps are you using? I could tell you if they are avaible in nextcloud

Main one is to keep my facebook contacts in sync

You could probably just self-sign a cert and use whatever name you want with it.

whats's that plugin called?

apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/FbSync?content=174311

seems not avaible on nextcloud 11 anymore :/ sorry
but be sure that your owncloud is up to date

Will do. I'm guessing that security is the major difference between the two? OwnCloud that bad?

it's all about personal prefrence.
I would say that nextcloud was created because owncloud was aiming too much for companies than the private user, so devs split up. but if you are happy with your owncloud, keep it. when I was talking about security I ment old installations. it went trough the media some time ago and was related to old Nextcloud installations as well. just check your box on
scan.nextcloud.com/
and you know how save you are

Interesting. Yeah I use it for syncing my contacts on my phone so the facebook app is essential for keeping pictures/info of people up to date.

to make it clear, an up to date owncloud is just as secure as an up to date nextcloud. at work we have an owncloud, it was rated A+
I use my nectcloud for contacts, calendar and picture sync too since I don't use gapps on my phone. also i sync my rss feeds. the only thing I miss is the functionally of browser bookmarks this app sucks. if it would become more like a FF sync server it would blow my mind, lets hope for it

Planning on setting up a server for backups, plex, owncloud, torrenting, and vpn shit
Tell me why I shouldnt just buy a xeon thinkserver ts140

there are no cons

>Hardware
CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630v4 2.2 Ghz(20 Logical CPU)
Motherboard: SuperMicro X10SRL-F
RAM: 64GB DDR4 2133 ECC
HDD: 6TB WD Red
SSD: 512GB (EVO 250 & Crucial MX300)
PSU: FSP Platinum PT-450M (450W)
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9DX i4
Case: Corsair Carbide Air 540

>Usage
- PC-NVR (Hikvision)
- Cisco Products Testing(Virtual Routers, Firewalls, Applications WaaS/APIC/CUCM,etc)
- CCIE Lab (Virl, This shit cosume 10 CPU and 32GB Ram)
- ESXi Hypervisor
- Vmware Labs
- FreeNAS x2 (Store Backups and Music)
- Sophos UTM FW (OpenVPN, IPSec L2L, NATs, IPS, AVC,etc)
- Accounting Software (Windows Server)
- Torrent Client
- Full Tunnel SSL VPN/Ipsec VPN
- Windows/Linux for Testing

>Pro
- 60W idle and 160W max at 100% CPU
- It Can handle anything

>Con
- Needs more RAM
- No Redundant PSU

>tfw you had to move
>cant use any of your servers due to being on wifi only
>talked to roommate about routing cat7 to my room
>he has to go in the attic to do it.
>hope he does it soon before it gets too hot.

Anyone here have experience using object storage for your home servers?

Like CEPH

I have a Dell T110 i got for free running Debian. Currently with 4x 320GB in Raid10 (H200 card). I have two questions for you expert guys:
1. I want to use it as a seedbox. Where should i store the files i download? New partition? Or new folder at root level like /media? Consider i'll later install kodi on the other machines so it'll take care of reorganizing/reorder files.
2. Right now everything is running on the 4 disks on the H200. The mb has also "normal" sata ports. If i add an SSD and plug it in the mb sata ports, can i use the raid disks on the H200 as storage only? Can i play with cloning partitions or is it better to start off with a clean install of the system? Right now it wouldn't be much of a hassle because i only run ssh and samba on it.

passwords don't matter if you have physical access to a device unless file encryption is involved

HP Micro Server
images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ezYI6tiTL._SX355_.jpg

Pros Small form factor, quiet, reliable
Cons Not very powerful

So I have an E3-1265L V2 cpu in my server, and some random gigabyte b series mobo.
I can use ecc ram right?
If so which type?
Also why is ecc ddr3 so much cheaper than normal ddr3?

I have the very first msi wind netbook running as a torrent client but whenever I try to play any of the videos on my phone or tablet it's laggy as fuck. How do I make it better? Is it because the cpu is dog shit and I should change it to a better machine if I'm going to be streaming off it?

HDD bottleneck most likely, if you are using plex its probably going to be encoding it.

If torrents are running it eats the HDD activity.

Planning on building a small SAN
- 4x4TB storage
- 128GB M.2 SSD
- 16GB RAM
- 2x1GbE, possibly upgrading to 2x10GbE SFP+ later on
- FreeBSD with ZFS, filesystem exported using NFS (for the ESXi servers) and possibly a nextcloud instance

I have a spare g3258 that I want to use as a Plex server (will usually only be one 1080p stream to transcode, so that should more than enough power). Might add VPN to it at a later time.
Currently using an i7-2600 to do this, but it feels like overkill.

I have been using Ubuntu MATE on my current Plex server and laptop, and want to use something else for this.
What distro would be recommended: CentOS, Debian or Fedora?

probably cpu or connection speeds is bottlenecking, the HDD would only give botttlenecks if it was failing

you don't need the m.2 (nvme) ssd, a sata ssd will be just fine for that

you'll also not see too much improvements in 10GbE unless you're dealing with a large amount of massive files

stop shilling, ryzen does support ecc

are there rackmount servers, that are similar to a desktop case? in the way you can use standard 120/140mm desktop fans, desktop headsinks etc