/hsg/ home server general

/hsg/ home server general
This is for hosting your own internet services. Building your own hardware. Maintaining it all and keep it secure and online.
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What do you use for your home server? bsd or linux?

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I recognize that rack!

Linux. What are your specs?

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.

>I listen to music on tape and vinyl.

so hipster faggor?

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

>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)

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

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.

I don't have a mac.

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

This is my little fella.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

>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.

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.

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

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

Military/DoD?

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.

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.

Is this alright for a home NAS

pcpartpicker.com/list/C87mTH

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

Yeah, like I'd confirm any of those on Sup Forums. Lol.

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.

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).

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

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

>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.

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).

I don't fully trust backblaze. Someone on Sup Forums 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

please rate my servers

back side of the rack

>same case as I do
my nibba

>>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.

ESXi or Proxmox?

Which Sup Forums prefers and why?

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.

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

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.

I just use libvirt on Debian.

sause on the rPi cases?

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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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:
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?

what rack is this?

>I have pic related

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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.

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

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

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

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

Full server rack.

Isn't that just the most adorable thing ever?

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

that looks neato

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

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

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

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

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.

This is for you user
They are all plugged in now, that was a WIP.

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

ah okay, great

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
backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/

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

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

can you open one up and show some wiring?

Does anyone happen to have the Zun Microsystems sticker template

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

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

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

thanks for showing.

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

Fucking Amazing.

Where can i get a good server rack?

Thank you man, i'll keep looking around.

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

lack of gf and not getting laid ;_;

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

Nice no rails, idiot.