Come in and discuss home servers. Windows, Mac OS, Linux, *BSD, Solaris welcome. Discuss ideas, plans, and setups.
I installed Arch on an old laptop with a broken monitor at my parents' house so I can SSH into it and torrent animu at uni since they block peer 2 peer traffic.
>>52152455
I'm really starting to dislike my Microserver G8.
Fortunately I have a trio of DL360 G6's, and most of the machines are virtual.
One of these times, I'll stop posting my meme rack and actually drop a network diagram.
>>52152455
I'm trying to SSH into a BSD server from OSX. it works fine when both are on the same network, but when I type in my external IP nothing happens.
I set up port forwarding on my router, but now I can't even SSH locally.
>>52152596
Try to ssh into the target machine from the target machine.
Are you sure SSHD is started?
I've been running this ITX Slackware server for about 7 years. Recently gutted it & slapped it in a 1RU; it's only 100mbit...need to upgrade it to a newer ITX with gbit. Some of those newer Gigabyte boards with twin NIC's apparantly suck though.
May just turn this in to a sensor after the upgrade.
>>52152621
Yes, but now it's not letting me in at all. Jesus this is complicated
>>52152710
Have you always been SSH'ing with root?
>>52152738
I know it's bad practice so I added a user to wheel and wheel to the sudo file, but generally I just operate in root to make things smoother. There's nothing important in the server atm
>>52152766
Yeah nah, I wasn't knocking you for that. It's just that some default sshd configs don't permit root remotes.
Not sure if you have physical access, but can you paste your SSHD conf?
>>52152794
http://pastebin.com/XDxQd4wP
thanks for your help so far
>>52152863
Don't see anything troubling there. Is sshd being run by a super server? inetd or anything like that?
If not, it has to be your pf rules.
>>52152962
That narrows it down. Going to the store. Thanks again
noob question
What is the point of a home server?
>>52152710
>Yes, but now it's not letting me in at all. Jesus this is complicated
it will be easier once you turn your monitor 90 degrees clockwise.
Sweet thread yo
Working on building one at the moment, making small progress. Booted up an old a6 3650 and mobo sitting in a box and it posted fine to my surprise. Just need some ram and a new HDD for it.
Do you think I should bother including my old raedon GPU as well? Probably going to use it as a home NAS, and maybe a web server of some sort.
>>52153042
if youre not running a gui on the server then no need for a graphics card
>>52152990
On a similar note, what do y'all use a home server for?
I'm working on a Minecrap server, then a NAS and then a Forum when I git gud.
Monitoring thread.
>>52152455
Fuck off nigger.
>>52153124
I'm working on building a router, as a prototype for IoT
>copying steam library from network to local drive
>suddenly stops
>server is unresponsive
>connect monitor to server, see this
Well, shit. And here I was thinking I'd finally got a reliable machine there.
>>52153341
lol what os
>>52153376
Proxmox 4.0
It doesn't look like it left a dump anywhere either so a bit difficult to diagnose
>>52153418
thats why I'm a fan of BSD and solaris systems. We have Dtrace.
I looked into it and you might get something out of systemtap
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2059311/whats-an-alternative-for-dtrace-on-linux
>mfw bought a g33 chipset socket 775 foxconn mobo for cheap off a guy in a corner shop
>mfw i could have bought a g41 chipset mobo just as cheap and put a cool xeon on it
>mfw i cant even return it to the shop and maybe negotiate since it snows like hell
Thats why im holding off my home server project
Home server new fag here. What does a switch do?
Not letting this thread die cmon
bamp
who /virtualized/ here?
>>52153822
My backup solution in case >>52153341 keeps crashing is an Intel S3200SH server board, which I bought a Xeon E3110 for. I was going to make it into my new server but then I got that i7 system for cheap so just used that instead
>>52153818
Proxmox wiki suggests remote logging, but I don't feel like running an extra system just for that. Although a Raspberry Pi would be pretty good for that.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Kernel_Crash_Trace_Log
>>52154477
Using xenserver 6.5 here, works really good and is fast + running various VMs with backups written to my other selfbuild nas
i5 3470s (I think that's the model)
16GB RAM
2x1TB WD Black in RAID 1
2x500GB WD Blue in RAID 1
1x120GB SSD for root disk
Use the Blue group for seafile and storing samba junk. Use like 10GB of the Black group for small little file upload thing I made. Rest of it is empty.
I have no clue what to do with the rest since I barely fill up the samba shares and I still got 35GB left on the seafile lvm group.
>>52155022
E3-1220v2
10TB with 9TB for backups 1TB for vms(overkilll)
16gb of 1333mhz ram
intel server board
old case
someone host 4chain for moshimoshi
Running on some old notebook.
NAS, torrents, some sql + webserver and what not..
I've forgotten the passwords and I bonkered the transmission settings.
Been runnign some Assetto Corsa server for me and my brother. Now it runs mumble server. is aight.
When the time comes I'll be turning my current pc to server.
running as a hypervisor with two vms
One is responsible for all internet services (LAMP, mail server, l4d2 server, filtering/security services)
Another one is a windows embedded vm responsible for torrent wgui and peer control
>>52156144
the device itself looks like this
the CPU fan is disconnected since like a month, so it's completely noiseless.
same olde
think i'll re-jiggle some stuff with pi-zreos and what not in the new year, just because
too tied up in looking for work just now to get my teeth into it
I'm looking to build a cheap low power server for files and plex, don't know jack shit about server parts though but google has led me to the HP microservers. Does anyone have one and are they good?
On a side note, is it worth shelling out the extra for nicer hard drives like WD reds or should i skimp and just get the best price to space ratio?
Is there anything I can do to make my server more secure? I disabled password authentication for ssh. I disabled su for non root users. All of my 4 users has 700 on the home folder. My sudoers password is ~50 characters and my account is the only one with sudo access. I installed fail2ban with permabans after 3 tries.
I can't think of anything else to do.
1 user I have specifically for apache. And the other two users are backups for my desktop/laptop respectively. Both can only be accessed by the desktop/laptop.
>>52156302
I have one. Bretty good. Doesn't make too much noise. Low on electricity. Pretty powerful for what I need (storage server). I wouldn't get one new 2bh though. After a few months I'm kicking myself for not making one myself. But I knew I wouldn't be able to get it that small.
>>52156400
disabling root ssh access (and any other users that have no business using it) is the only one that springs to mind.
changing ssh port and port knocking are other options, but they are debatable to say the least.
>>52156454
size doesnt bother me that much, its just that every guide i've read on building a server spends way more money than the prebuilt microservers, plus its nice to have everything set out nicely for you.
Is there a guide to parts somewhere that I can refer to?
Server has a piece of shit mobo (945GCM7-F ) that doesn't like 2 ram sticks. when 2 sticks are in then it doesn't boot up unless restart is pressed.
One stick is okay and it isn't slots fault .
And worst is that when 2x2gb is inserted it shows up as 3005mb while 2+1gb shows up as 2800 mb.
And I've updated its bios to the last one.
Should really replace it.
>>52156514
Root and the other 3 users don't even have passwords (well, they do, but it's randomly generated 256 character passwords that even I don't know what they are). The only way you can access them is by ssh with the key.
And can't people justnmap website.com
to get the ssh port? I'd rather just be lazy and keep it on the default port if it'll be that easy.
is there anything like a rack mountable modem?
it seems pointless getting like 4 different things that all do almost the same thing, and a normal modem looks out of place in a cabinet
>>52158017
i think most enterprise grade routers easly have rackmount fittings, i know cisco does and the mikrotik routerboard / edgerouter pro
>>52152639
Clean your fucking cables.
>>52156603
>2.6.32 kernel
w-why???
i mean, yeah, it's technically still supported, but why???
>>52158241
stability and security
>>52158120
That sound a bit expensive for a home server
meh
>>52159091
>asks for rackmountable routers
>to expensive
What u think it's Enterprise stuff not consumer grade crap
>>52152455
>>52158017
Draytek business routers, I think the one I put a rack mount kit on was a 2830n
>>52159397
http://www.dabs.com/products/draytek-rack-mount-bracket-for-vigor-2830--2850--2920--2930-rm1-54R3.html
>>52159324
Who the hell uses enterprise tier stuff for a home server? Home servers aren't just for oil barons and rothschild descendants
>>52159397
http://cablesandkits.com
Buy your shit from there. I've probably saved 20 grand in the last five years buying from them. The stuff is refurbed, but it's got a killer warranty and if something breaks they'll overnight you a replacement. I didn't have that good of service when I was buying new from a vendor.
>>52152455
How's that bowl of dirt tasting?
>>52156708
>And can't people just
>nmap website.com
>to get the ssh port?
They can, if they're specifically after your box. But the ssh attacks I see the most (as a home user) are automated scripts scanning probably whole networks for port 22. Changing the port will definitely help there.
>>52159480
If that is so then dump your racks into the dumpster, most likely everyone uses atleast a piece of Enterprise stuff and yes racks are Enterprise stuff.
>>52153418
proxmox is not the best for older hardware
>>52153124
Mine runs a pair of domain controllers, an update service, TFS for Visual Studio, Plex, and file storage.
A lot of people just use one for a NAS and Plex (or other media service)
>>52153124
I use mine for Samba, storage on RAID, OpenVPN, TeamSpeak 3, Plex, Subsonic and rtorrent + rutorrent. It's basically indispensable for me, shit is incredibly useful and makes a lot of things a lot easier.
Need to get me a damn rack, any good recommendations?
>>52160705
Dell U2410's can be had cheap. I have a U2420. But I don't like full racks for home use, so that's just me I suppose.
>>52156144
>shit cpu
>shit hdds
>supervisor
ayy lmao
>>52160839
It's a think client. But please, do better.
>>52160942
*thin client. Fucking autocorrect...
>>52160839
Well, dude, it operates as it should since like 4 months and I had no performance issues of any kind so far.
It's a server for 4 intranet users, 8 game server users and 5-10 mail users. It's more than enough to handle everything.
>>52159333
doesn't look very homeish..
>>52161199
>not having a dedicated room 20 meters underground for your very own data center
>>52161536
well, its not 20 meters underground but my rack is in the basement.
>>52161563
What are you using the fiber for, switch interconnects, or something else? Also, 1GB or 10GB?
>>52161563
then build yourself your very own Vault underground where you'll keep your servers safe.
Unless you live in a typical american house made of paper and wood it shouldn't cost a lot.
>>52161584
you can see it better in this post >>52155233
the fiber is for connecting router to main switch, the silver arista is a 10G switch, recently added a fibre cable that goest to my room but i havent updated the pics.
>>52159150
How would one learn to set something up like this?
And is everything in the list on the left with a green play symbol running at the same time?
>>52161625
Good Idea, all I need is a vault door and its done, walls are already very thick
>>52161858
That's my wet dream to have my own vault undeground where I can endlessly fap to 3d animu sluts without my mom knowing
Does anyone have experience running Plex on Ubuntu? I tried it a few years ago and it was buggy as fuck. It's the only reason why I still have WS2012, to keep Plex running smoothly. I'd really like to get rid of it so my entire environment is Ubuntu. Getting tired of having to write two scripts for everything.
>>52152455
Why should I make a home server? What would you use one for?
>>52165369
I do not, but I imagine if it's a supported package it should "just work"
>>52165398
If you're asking this you have no use for it probably
>>52164093
>my own vault undeground
AKA Mom's basement.
Already achieved.
>>52161536
There is a reason of why you dont put a rack in the 1st floor, do you even know the code?
>>52165398
Going to agree with >>52165419
I work as a systems engineer. I run ESXi (work is KVM + AWS) on a few custom Supermicro boxes with ~756Gb ram across the 4 hosts.
I mostly run tests on hunches I have for work, some local game servers for the wife and me to play, usenet(plex, sabnzb, couchpotato) and some other junk.
Its a good way to learn about non-dev related technology.
>>52154477
I run ESXi at home. At work, KVM + AWS with Opennebula. ~7-8k physical hosts + 3k+ AWS instances.
>>52156182
...
...wtf is that monstrosity?!
>>52165419
>>52166228
maybe in your limited use cases, sure.
as for >>52165398
it can serve as a file server, you can run a mail server out of it if you want, etc... you can do all sorts of shit that you'd normally have to spin up a heroku instance or get EC2 time or whatever to run on.
i use a hackintosh as a file server/time machine/driver for a handful of displays when i'm home.
there's probably no need for a rack server for you (obviously), but "home server" is sufficiently nebulous that it could just mean any computer that's always on and accessible from outside your local network.
>>52161377
nice terminal bruh
>>52152517
Make life easier, install openVPN
>>52165369
Currently running it now. No problems. What's your question?
>>52166292
Haha, right. Fuck off. My experience revolves around systems so...well, fuck off.
Is this the best ITX server/nas case?
>>52166436
I have that case!
Its awesome. Acts as a NAS for my ESXi host.
Pics to follow.
>>52166436
Picked up an ok board with 12 SATA ports with 24Gb RAM and a bunch of SSDs.
Raspberry Pi 2 B with 6TB of storage for media. Running sabnzbd, Sonarr, CouchPotato, and a VPN server.
>>52166493
What motherboard?
>>52166407
i'm sure you have a depth of experience, but "limited use cases" means that you probably don't have a ton of experience seeing how people use lower powered, less serious servers for their own personal use.
but you coming off like the most gangrenous dick in the world doesn't help, so maybe you're just an insufferable asshole.
>>52152596
mmmh, could be that your NAT isnt working as it should be. Might I ask what router your are running?
I have the mb from my broken X220, thinking of setting it up as a docker container host for testing since the cpu is pretty peppy, what would be a good topology here? Thinking ESXi is over kill but it would make provisioning a lot simpler.
So I've noticed there's usually some storage enthusiasts/data hoarders in server threads. Any of you folks using btrfs? If so, how? ready for primetime, in your opinion?
I ask because I've seen people before with big ZFS systems. I want checksumming for at least the more important bits of my data, but ZFS is way beyond both my requirements and my budget. No ECC RAM, not enough RAM in my server period (it's just an old C2Q box), not enough identical drives for RAID 6 or anything. But a simpler two-drive RAID 1, that I can make happen.
Running Ubuntu Server (only provisioned with 4 cores and 4GB RAM) with Plex and Samba for backing up my PC over the LAN.
Basically a glorified NAS.
>>52152596
maybe your ISP is a cunt like mine and blocks the port
my ISP is downright draconian
>>52166551
I like you!
>>52166512
ASRock Intel Avoton C2750 2.4GHz/DDR3/SATA3/V&2GbE/Mini-ITX Motherboard and CPU Combo C2750D4I
Also running this X 4 (see pic).
Having a hard time figuring this out.. I'm trying to create hardlink on freebsd:ln "video.mp4" "it`s not true.mp4"
gives me
>Unmatched `
How do I fix this?
>>52166885
try without quotation marks
>>52166885
forgot to add that you should try without quotation marks and also include the path, soln ./video.mp4 ./itsnottrue.mp4
i have a feeling the punctuation is fucking it up too
>>52166813
That's actually the same board I'm going to get. Any issues with it?
>>52166885
you need to escape the back tickln ./video.mp4 "./it\`s not true.mp4"
>>52166957
No major issues. Couple things to keep in mind:
SUPER picky about RAM.
BMC/IPMI is shit.
Takes an incredible amount of time to POST. It will confuse you when troubleshooting your build. You'll think something's wrong. Just wait...
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy for what it is.
>>52166983
See I thought that would fix it, but it doesn't.
If you have a space in the target link, it will still throw the error. Just try it:ln video.mp4 "it\`s true.mp4"
Whereas this works fine:ln video.mp4 it\`strue.mp4
>>52167115
Works fine on my loonix
What aboutln video.mp4 'it`s true.mp4'
Also, why the fuck are you using a backtick in place of an apostrophe?
>>52167155
>you
I'm not, why do you think I'm creating a hardlink? Stupid idiots renaming their torrent files.
Using ' instead of " seems to produce a link, but it's not called correctly. Instead of "it`s true.mp4" it's 0SP7C9~C.mp4
>>52167187
What shell are you using? I had assumed bash but that's just bizarre behaviour
>>52167200
I'm using csh
>>52167200
>>52167216
Yeah I just installed bash and it worked
Thanks a lot mate, happy new years to you. In the meantime #freebsd on freenode was no help at all.
/g/ is great
>>52152455
I have an old core2 duo that I want to use for a media server with two functions:
A) store 4tb of movies and stream them to other devices in the house from our huawei router, if the router is incapable I'd like to find a router that can fulfil this
B) be permanently plugged into the lounge TV and be used to watch Netflix
Id also like to be able to tell the server to torrent content from another pc on the network, and to use a gnu/Linux distro because the pc is low spec
Is this possible with linux mint, and what would I need to do to get this habbebing
>>52167403
Not OP, but...
1 - Core2. That is going to limit your transcoding a bit if you're doing CPU transcoding (Plex, for example). To run a full 1080p stream, it is suggested that the CPU have passmark score of 2000 for every stream. So for 4 1080p streams, a CPU should core about 8000.
If you're using something that is capable of GPU transcoding (Plex isn't, that I know of) a Core 2 and like a GTX460 should be fine for all the things.
2 - Storage shouldn't matter. I don't think any modern system is going to have a limit on how much storage it can access, with the exception of a 2TB limit for the OS drive / partition. BIOS vs UEFI, and I don't know if it applies to *nix.
I think Mint with XBMC should get you mostly where you want to be, with the caveat that I don't know if Netflix works under Linux or not.
>>52167464
This system is in a super small case, the best I can do for this thing is maybe a core2 quad and an nvidia quadro 410 or 600 due to their small form factor.
Would a quadro 410 be decent enough to handle transcoding or am I just going to habe tp limit the number of people streaming on it to, say, one.
Side note do I have to do any backflips with the router to get this going or is it usually simple
>>52167518
>Would a quadro 410 be decent enough to handle transcoding
I don't know. I think if you look at XBMC's website or search Quadro 410 GPU transcoding you might get some answers.
For the router, if you don't want access to it from outside your home you should be fine. Otherwise, there will be a port redirect required. But I use Plex and Windows on actual server hardware, so you might have better luck in the XBMC forums.
Who /pi/ here?
Does well enough for a seafile server, among other things.
>>52167707
I've ordered a pair of PI 2's for a project, but don't have them yet.
>>52167707
ayup
NAS, DLNA, torrents
everything you need
pity about mkv though
>>52159637
>dirt
It's disgusting because of too much garlic
But so healthy. It's still sitting in my fridge
>>52154477
Hyper-V here.
Side note I bricked my C2100 and in process of fixing it now. Sounds like a god damn jet engine
>sas drives
>>52161845
Same
Any good guides on setting up a good server?
>>52168246
15k rpmssss
>>52168183
Not Anon, but what exactly is it?
A /ck/ concoction?
>>52168231
You have angered the BMC Gods. Your hearing shall pay dearly...
>>52166272
HP Thin Client T610.
It's well documented here:
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t610/index.shtml
Enjoy.
>>52159897
It's a Lynnfield core i7, it's not that old.
What else would you recommend?
