What do you use your home servers for, /g/?
>>53844572
that's too much, brah
>>53844572
emulating a lab environment in which I can test some things and play around with both linux and windows servers / structures because why not.
Also for media storage, automated downloads and some other basic home server needs
>>53844698
Nah
A surplus Optiplex from a university
>>53844572
>that pic
deprecated shit hardware. Purge it and get HP microserver
Where do I get started for setting up a VMWare/general virtual lab environment?
I'm mostly involved in networking but so many vendors are coming out with virtual networking stuff that makes it easier to set up more complex labs.
>>53844828
Consumerist whore
>>53844828
>No goy, even though your hardware works well, you need the newest hardware for your server!
>>53844572
Supermicro 12 bay with 30tb. Running freenas with all the automation+plex crap.
>>53844948
enjoy your cosmic power bills, brainless negro.
Also the noise and heat.
>>53844698
>PE2950
>PE1950
You mean too much power? Yes. All the computing in there could be replaced by one modern-ish machine that uses a tenth of the power, and produces less noise. Unsure of what the two 1U middle servers are, though, they could be newer.
>hentai@home
>openvpn to get around the stuff my school blocks
>webserver for a resume, show off projects
>mumble
>plex
ClearOS on my old desktop I no longer need
i7 4770
12 GB RAM
couple of 180 GB Intel session raid0
A 2 TB mechanical disk
Some other ssd I acquired
GTX 660 that's not being used at all as it's headless
Basically use it as a file server and general shell rig for IRC or whatever
>>53845518
Ssds not sessions
Sorry phone posting
>>53844841
Proxmox is also a good virtual lab setup. I would say youtube is the best resource.
Seeding torrents, making backups. Run a Terraria server for some of my friends. Thought I was gonna put a mumble server up too but that turned out to not be needed. Would like to rackmount my shit but it's too expensive (bunch of new cases, new switch, the rack itself..) Would also like to have some proper redundancy in my backups but I've spent way too damn much on hard drives already.
Q6700 with 8GB of generic RAM on a Gigabyte P45 board. Drives, from the bottom: 1TB, 3TB, 3TB, 3TB, 500GB, 500GB, 160GB, 160GB.
oh yeah btw where the fuck do you people live where there's businesses throwing away old rack servers for peanuts? I fucking never see rackmount anything on craigslist or such where I live. bet it's that damn county electronics recycling program and they all get scrapped there.
>>53844572
OpenVPN
Plex
TeamSpeak
Subsonic
Samba
RAID
rTorrent
Some minor ffmpeg encoding
That's what my home server does. It's highly useful, I don't want to go without a server anymore.
I've never really had a server before, but I just found one with 4 processors and 128GB of RAM for $130 on my local CL, should I go for it and what should I do with it? I definitely know my way around linux and tcp/ip, so technical skills aren't a limitation
>>53846381
if that's four sockets and not just four cores then I'd buy it just to shitpost in guts threads
>>53846381
If I could get one for that price I'd do it just for fun basically, even if I wouldn't replace my modern hardware server that I already have.
128GB of RAM is quite a lot still, it must be fairly recent.
>>53844787
Hey, me too.
>>53846397
It's four sockets, with processors that have 6 cores each
>>53846591
buy that fucker
>>53846591
Id go for it anon, that sounds like a crazy good deal. Even if you dont use it for much, you could run some gayming servers for any of your gaymer friends. Or like the other anon said, whore it out on /g/ and shitpost. :^)
>>53845036
>not just keeping it in another room
>giving a fuck about an extra $20 a month
you should probably not be wasting your money on shitty microservers senpai
>>53846639
extra 20$ every month get you a new hp server in 1 year more or less....
>>53846727
And?
>>53846727
But who wants one of them.
>>53846747
and an hp microserver is 100x better than that cement block.
>>53846758
>implying
>>53846758
If that "cement block" works fine that 100x improvement is meaningless
>>53844764
This
>>53846774
i guess earning 20$/month for free is shit nowadays
>>53846805
Yeah because the Microserver draws literally no power amirite?
>>53846805
Yeah, when your not a fucking NEET
>>53846805
plenty of people waste more than that completely needlessly on their cell phone plans. at least that anon is getting a cool server out of it
also those HP microservers are annoying. They won't give you anything, not even so much as BIOS updates, without a support contract.
>>53846727
or I could just continue to use the servers I like and want to use that do their job great instead of worrying about how much money I'm saving a month so I can upgrade my shitty HP pavilion in a cube every 12 months for no apparent reason other than looking hip in a shitposting thread
>>53846821
>To give a rough estimate, running this for 1 year if it was at 63W
basically yes compared to that plastic block. Is better as an heater than a server.
>>53846861
Anon, you are the definition of consumerism
>>53844572
storage mostly. 27T movies, 14T TV shows and 2T other random stuff.
also running some virtual machines, compilation jobs, encoding.
>>53846874
if the new is better an make me save money why not?
>>53846909
Because old still works and a few dollars a month is nothing
>>53846921
>keep the old and spend money or get the new one and save money.
Tough choice.
>>53846909
because when you're comparing an unexpandable, single socket and entry-level nettop in a cube with a hotswap cage to a real server new isn't really better
>>53846228
How do you power 8 drives with only 4 connections
>>53846907
Please give me access to you movies and tv shows ...
I need it.
is four bay nas
ok?
>>53847044
could you try rephrasing that in
english?
>>53847044
Do you plan on using more than four bays?
>>53846381
No way. Pic or it didn't happen
>>53845518
Donate the 660? ;^)
>>53844572
>UPS not at the bottom
Your batteries are probably bad already, buddy.
>>53846972
PSU has six, actually. I added a molex-to-4xSATA adapter that I used to use in my desktop but havent needed for a long time. PSU doesn't seem to have any problems spinning the drives up.
>>53847098
Don't really have anywhere nice to donate it
>>53847135
Not my pic, found it on google
>>53844572
vpn
plex
terabytes and terabytes of storage
webhosting
database server for developement purposes
torrent
impress plebs whith huge rack of blinky leds, plebs love blinky leds
>>53848430
>impress plebs whith huge rack of blinky leds, plebs love blinky leds
Kek
>>53845518
I have a setup like you but I had installed esxi on it. You should install vmare, its a very stable with tha processor.
>>53844828
>gen 8 microserver
>Xeon e3 1260 v2
>16gb ecc ram
>256gb SSD
>4x4tb drives
>LSI SAS controller with external ports on its way
Comfy af desu
>>53850769
Yeah I did use it once but couldn't get wireless working and it sort of fucked up.
Now wireless isn't a problem might give it another go sometime
Plex
Ssh server
Backups
Retroshare
Expiramenting
Minecraft
>>53851730
Oh yeah and samba, forgot that.
>>53851924
Looks comfy af
>>53851924
>cable management
>>53844764
Exactly this
HP proliant ml10 babys first file server
Four xeons
32 gigs
Four 4tb drives in 2 zfs mirror vdevs (probably go raidz2 shortly after I get two more drives)
Ubuntu server 16.what ever so I can try out an OS with kernal level zfs (right? This is why Oracle is so pissy about it?)
Running on a USB and reduced swapiness to 10 unless I can get another drive to handle the caching.
I am not encoding or streaming so it's probably fine now. Also fuck HP booting the first sata device. I thought we lived beyond the days of ide.
>>53852453
Also turned off access time recording to increase USB life span.
I went USB because of that problem with the fucking first sata drive taken up
Anybody got a G8 microserver and can post a BSD/Linux dmesg from it?
>>53846228
I'm getting one from a friend who works with a defense contractor that does hardware refreshes all the time
>>53844787
>>53846464
Make that 3
>>53854195
790 ftw
>RAID1
>samba
>owncloud
>ssh
>Emby
>3 VMs
>open VPN
>vifron encoding
>>53844572
r210ii running esx
runs an openbsd router, a couple dev vm's, and mostly is meant for studying for my ccie
>ftp
>mumble
>ARK:survival evolved server
>wifi router
All this on c2d @2.4ghz and 8gb ddr2
>tfw you got all for free
ARK is pain in the ass. Freezing once a week unless i restart it before, bad/rushed/late updates and it's heavy on resorces, 60% cpu and 5.5gb ram is used by it alone when players are online
>>53857630
It's a pretty big game...
hp dl380g5
>owncloud
>personal website
>terraria and some other /v/ siht
>mumble VoIP
>sadpanda hosting for exhentai rape dollars
datamining, tracking.
going from my rack top to bottom
>pfsense on a slapped together j1900 board
>patch panel I got for $25
>gs724t switch I got for $25
>shelf with monitor+keyboard for kvm
>old laptop working as a SSH gateway
>DL380 G5 running 2 TF2 servers, 1 CSGO server, 1 Rust server, 1 Minecraft server and a webserver
>apc pdu
>cable management thingy to keep things relatively neat
I don't have a UPS and trees fall onto power lines all the time
I want to upgrade to a G6 just for the power consumption and noise reductions
old vaio w core 2 duo
> owncloud
> webserver
> streaming my music library
is anyone else using letsencrypt for ssl certs ?
One of the best things to have happened for self hosting lately imho
I've dithered fora while but I plan to pick up one of those cheap Gen8 microservers. Doesn't look like there will be a Gen9 microserver, Avoton is much pricier even on the ASrock Rack board, let alone the Supermicro, all the Braswell boards have shitty Realtek NICs except a couple of industrial boards which are pricier than Avoton, Denverton isn't out yet, AMD don't have a Jaguar SoC suitable and Zen isn't out yet.
Can anyone with a G1610T Gen8 post a cryptsetup benchmark? No AES-NI on that so I want to know if software AES or serpent-xts is the way to go.
Have they fixed the noise problem with AHCI mode? I'll be taking an SPI flash programmer to the BIOS and the iLO chip anyway, might swap the Delta to a Noctua while I'm at it.
Anyone else interested in Coreboot on a Gen8?
>>53859377
Yes, on my dedicated and VPS hosting. I used my own PKI at home but may switch. I implemented ECC DNSSEC + Let's Encrypt dns-01 challenges on djb's tinydns, running xenial (github: qrmn).
I have Raspberry-Pi B+ as my server...
>>53859377
Were you able to get the apache auto configuration to work? I haven't had any luck with that, but have issued several standalone certs. It's great!
>>53859947
Are you memeing or actually using it for something useful?
>>53844572
I have a tiny apartment, with a feeble power grid. I also have free colocation through work. My "home" servers sit in a datacenter.
I use them for:
>nginx
>vsftpd
>Deluge
>OpenVPN
>IPFS
>VM host (KVM+libvirt)
>OpenSMTPd
>Dovecot
>CJDNS nodes with public peering
>rsync backups of my PC and laptop
>build hosts for compiling software
>UnrealIRCd
>persistent IRC session in tmux
The closest things to servers currently in my home itself are my pfSense gateway and a Linux PC that exports /home over NFS.
I have
>amd fx-4100 + mobo
>500watt psu
how much ram and what type of drives should I get to turn this into a NAS
