Hi Sup Forums, I'm a neet, but I'm going back to school in January and I'm trying to get an internship so it's not so bad.
Recently I got a hold of a HP ProLiant DL360 G7 Server.
It came with two 300 GB hard drives in it.
I was thinking of using it as a web and/or mail server.
Besides those, is there anything Sup Forums would recommend I use it for?
Anything that would be fun?
Also, would Arch be a good Linux distro to run on it?
What would Sup Forums recommend?
Thanks.
Run centos
Use it for docker, plex, IRC
Depends on where you run it... In a server room OK, but too old already. We still have one G7 in us though.
But at home? Too loud, too much electricity. Play with Vmware or something like this
Take it as an opportunity to publish all these horse porn vids you've downloaded all these years.
ESXi
also, it's too loud and power hungry. hope you have good rates. if you were legitimately considering running arch bare metal on an HP server, just dig computer out of the dumpster. Dead serious. You're not going to use this thing to its full potential.
Hentai@Home
proxmox, if you get more hosts you can put them in an HA cluster.
if you want to have a Linux system and still want to be able to try other things, you could go with a hypervisor like proxmox it's basicially a debian system with nice Web Gui for KVM, LXC you can even impement docker along with Kubernetes. there are good templates avaible for quickstart. if you can get your hands on a cheap used HBA CARD you could setup a PCI Passtrough and create yourself for example a FreeNAS VM with RAIDZ accessing your Harddrives
the webpanel includes a neat VNC implementation for initial setup. Fire up VM's and use them to proceed your learning. another thing you could do, is to create a virtualised Firewall like pfSense which is enterprise class. since you have 4 network ports on your server. if you feel like it you could also portforward Ports from your VM's to the hypervisor and point to that Ports via Reverse Proxy. So you are able to access every VM's port using one public IP adress and subdomains.
Fuck, you can even create a whole cluster if you fell like it.
don't listen to that guy you won't be able to create all these scenarios with ESiX.
a hypervisor like Proxmox is the only sane choice for such a machine for learning purposes.
Best thing, proxmox is completeley opensource and cost you nothing if you decide upgrading your packages directly is ok for you.
you are luck to get your hands on a gen7 machine those are relativeley quied compared to gen5
if you consider get yourself another server, go with a Dell r710. those are quiet, low on power and you can use 6 3.5" HHD's. also if the Server comes with a iDRAC card you would have what HP sells as iLO via licenses, the difference would be you didn't have to pay for the License. Dell R710 supports up to 288GB RAM and there are relativeley cheap dual Xeon E5645 which you would have ended up with 24 threads. at 2.4 GHz.
if you want to get your hands on a NAS, set uo your own using a HP Miroserver gen10 for $200 those are very neat machines for homelabbing and NAS
>publish porn
>that you downloaded from the internet already
You are the cancer killing the internet.
naah, but maybe i'll suggest you to eat a bag of dicks, as you seem to be too autistic to get a funny
>NEET
>School
Pick one
The thing is, it's a useless power hog and very inefficient, you won't need it to run a web or mail server, a laptop from 2012 would do the job just as well and take several times less power.
It's just a toy now, do start experimenting, you won't need us to tell you what to do, try to be creative yourself.
did you pay +$10k for it? no?
then get the fuck out you poorfag piece of shit
Fuck sake, don't let Linux touch the thing.
Install FreeBSD or mine altcoins, idk.
>Arch Linux
>on a server
No.
shove it up your ass
Thanks, anons.
use it as a seed box and help all of us out
fpbp
There's a keygen for iLO that even works on iLO 4.
What exactly do you need a mail server for?
I'd take it, grab a couple of extra drives from ebay, drop some ram on it and install ESXi or Xen Server on it and get my VM on.
Uhh... mail.