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recently acquired an old server, power edge 2600, and Im hoping to set it up so i can offload CPU intensive task from my laptop (video encoding, file compression, data archiving etc.) to the server. is this possible? it has a gigabit NIC
server specs:
>CPU
unknown Xeon, 2400MHz
>Sys Mem
2048 ECC DDR, 8MB sdram
>4 PCI-X slots, empty
>Current OS: None
>storage type: SCSI
>BIOS: A12
>storage space: None, no drives
Fuck you and your subreddit generals, son.
>>53103610
>is this possible?
No
>>53103729
would i be better off getting scsi drives and doing it all on the server, or getting a new laptop?
what are some cool things i can work with the hardware with?
>>53103751
You'd be better off buying a macbook since you obviously have no idea what you're doing
Possible using either a cloud container or simple rdp.
I have a server/desktop setup as a NAS. Currently running elementaryOS.
Last thread had someone running debian sid on a smartphone for a server. Can I just install things from the apt-get repositories and they'll work like on my laptop, set up SSH etc.?
>>53103883
Holy newfag.
>>53103751
enjoy your energy bill
Server specs:
Asus AM1B-ITX board
Athlon 5350 quad core
6x Seagate 1TB drives
Adaptec 2405 RAID controller
running Debian
running plex media server, samba, SSH/SFTP, VPN, seedbox
whole thing was dirt fucking cheap, pulls under 40 watts on idle and very nice server
9 days uptime rn
>>53103883
Yes, but do not expect
-hardware related stuff (monitor mode etc..) to work
-hw accel to work
-anything beyond network and cpu to work (no graphic stuff etc.. you may ssh into localhost)
Use Linux Deploy.
>>53103940
its off right now, really i want to use it to zip and encrypt pc backup. a friend is letting me store my backup at his house, so id like to be secure. on my laptop itd take a while to zip and encrypt the file
>>53103610
SSH, SFTP, FTP, VPN, cron backing up of vps.
>>53103976
>Encrypting your backups
for what purpose
anyways that PC is extremely, extremely slow and it would realisitcally be faster to do that on your own computer. if it's running DDR, that's likely a Xeon MP single core HT each one. not exactly a performance queen. PLUS any sort of hard drive storage is going to be considerably more expensive than their SATA counterparts, since you're probably looking at SCSI Ultra320 drives which are few and far between.
>>53103945
I'd just need the terminal. Any non-graphical debianbased distributions you'd recommend?
>>53104032
Go to debian's website and download the base install version. it shouldn't include a DE by default.
>>53103976
i use rsync over ssh for that
>>53104032
Debian is good
>>53104048
Thanks iPhone for always flipping photos.
C2100, PowerEdge R610(2), D20
>>53104032
Linux Deploy includes an installer and use normal debian. disable DE and stuff in settings. Last time i used it didnt set the lang so be sure to change from C to English
>>53104040
>>53104044
K, thank you.
>>53104024
so snoops dont go through my data. cant seem to find the scsi drives i need, it may be to old to do anything, i might just sell it for some quick cash desu.
>>53103989
what model board is that? any reason in paticular you chose that board?
>>53104172
Its a Cubieboard2. (Made in 2012)
It was much better than a Pi, not overhyped and overpriced, has SATA, and enough mainline kernel support for a server (u-boot and network)
C2Q 6700 on a Gigabyte P45 board with 8GB of generic DDR2. Drives, from the bottom up: 2TB, 3TB, 3TB, 3TB, 500GB, 500GB, 160GB, 160GB.
Runs Debian testing, because that video card didn't play nice with either nouveau or the proprietary driver in stable. Which really bothers me, since stable is what I'd much rather be running. Oh well. It makes my backups, seeds my torrents, and runs a Terraria server for some friends of mine.
>>53104024
not him by my backups are all encrypted, because why not. it can't hurt and might help.
>>53104136
>. cant seem to find the scsi drives i need, it may be to old to do anything
Yeah because SAS/SATA has been in adoption for a very long time now. Since your board only has PCI-X you can't really get a SATA card either.
If you;re looking for a server I highly suggest getting some cheap embedded board and starting there. QC5000-ITX might be down your alley, it's $60 or so and has CPU/mobo. All you need is power, RAM, and disks.
>>53104229
Now the cubieboard is an underpowered POS. Even their new 100$ cubieboard5 is shit. But I'll admit. That sata controller is pretty hot.
>>53104250
if this didnt pan out i planned on a laptop upgrade and a board for home server stuff. got the 2600 for free so its not that depressing i cant do much with it, was hoping i could cut down on compression time.
3 out of 4 RAM sticks died
Supermicro board
Xeon x3460 (4C/8T)
16 Gib ddr3 1600
couple TB's of storage
runs my hypervisor, in VMs I have
plex
no ip ddns resolver
openvpn
apache
samba
minecraft
rdp gateway
VM just for torrenting movies to keep the windows boxes semi safe
>>53104541
forgot to mention PFsense is another one of my VMs
>>53103610
>NetBurst Xeon
>offloading anything CPU intensive effectively from newer hardware
unless you don't give a shit about it taking forever and you just want it the fuck off your laptop so you don't overheat it, good luck, that stuff's better for storage and tinkering
>>53104024
ultra320 drives are cheap as shit and all over the place, they made millions and millions of them. could probably deck that thing out for under $50
>>53104621
>ultra320 drives are cheap as shit and all over the place, they made millions and millions of them. could probably deck that thing out for under $50
Yeah but not with much space.
>>53104633
6x300GB isn't really too bad at all unless you're storing tons of high-resolution video
>>53104678
with any sort of meaningful RAID you lose half of that array
>>53104692
still nearly a terabyte
Just installed a new server, probably the last for a while
>>53104067
forgot specs, like cpu, memory and stuff
>>53105143
Hello SPARCfriend
currently running an HP dl120
8 cores
16Gb RAM
4x 750gb data drives
Esxi free version installed, nested data center built in it with several virtualized esxi enterprise hosts attached to a Linux vcenter appliance, supporting top level infrastructure for VMware auto deploy and a Linux box exporting NFS shares for clustered storage
Thinking about dropping the funds for something more powerful, more like 12-24 cores and 32-48gb RAM but am waiting on the status of a new job
all I've got is a pfsense router I built, and all my servers run on my desktop just to save power, since my actual server is a dl380 g5 that just sucks power
>>53105212
Hello, sunshine
Need to find an affordable 12U Deep that wont rape my wallet.
>>53105537
How is the 210? Kind of want to swap out for one, or a T1000 to cut my build times to less than a week.
>>53105783
It is, but desu just set up a cross compile on something sane.
>>53105862
That's what I was thinking, all of the V100's successors seem to eat a little more power too, but being able to X forward a browser without suffering due to that slow ass PC133 wouldn't be bad.
>>53103610
I just run VPS for my websites and testing. Don't have much knowledge to go further.
>>53104621
>NetBurst Xeon
This. Goddamn things don't even support 64-bit. RHEL/CentOS 6.7 is the last version they will be able to run.
>>53106067
Later ones based on prescott do, I want a server with the PD-based Xeon MPs with unreal 150W TDPs
>>53106091
Oh, I must have earlier ones (Northwood?) then. We retired a couple at work. They have tons of decent storage and 5GB (stupid vendor built them for us) of RAM.
Using a nexus 7(2012 + 3G) 4.4.2
32 Gb storage. Broke the screen 2 years ago, and remade it into a server. Runs great.
– lighttpd server v1.4.35 (SSL)
– PHP v5.6.12 (SSL)
– nginx v1.9.3 (SSL)
– MySQL v5.6.19 (with InnoDB)
– msmtp v1.6.1
– Web Interface v1.2
– KSWEBFTP v1.0
>>53106128
Probably, Foster and Prestonia/Gallatin chips predate x64, everything after Nocona and Cranford/Potomac do.
>>53106239
You cross-compiled your stuff, or there are arm packages in the repos?
>>53106417
Using KSWEB v3.41 Pro, there are arm and x86 packages available.
>>53106591
Oh, nice. I thought you were using a linux distro in there, silly me.
Will look into that, thanks
>>53104067
For what do you use them?
>>53107041
D20 is getting replaced soon i hope. Lab, furthering my education.
VMs at the moment, plex, ark, minecraft, space engineers, fileserver, pfsense (removing this), some other misc shit
>>53105537
>>53105212
>>53105143
What are these sun servers used for, btw they look gorgeous.
What should I do to make my server secure before I attach it to my website? It's just a personal website I use for showcasing personal projects and hosting mumble and torrenting.
>>53108705
Don't do anything that would make it insecure
Do you want us to give you a list of all the ways to harden any piece of software you might possibly run?
If you don't know what you're doing, do research until you do, and then use your knowledge to judge the potential threat of anything you run.
>>53108761
I just want to know the basics about making it so that I can keep hackers from logging into my server.
>>53108801
I have a good one to get you started "fail2ban, login ssh with keys only and disable password authentication" also read something like apache2 hardening or nginx hardening
>>53108843
Got it, thanks. I figure I'm going to do that on a spare raspberry pi laying around and get experienced with it before I work with an actual server.
>>53108843
>>53109095
Also, what are some Linux hacking tools I can use to test that my server is secure?
>>53108843
He's just going to install wordpress and never update it and get hacked anyway
>>53109232
Probs desu senpai
>>53108392
Server stuff, I host a website, file archive, a little "development", tinkering, spreadsheeting and word processing in StarOffice via X forwarding.
>>53111111
>the one time I get sexts and I waste it blogposting about shitboxes
at least I got them in the name of Sun Microsystems our l-rd and savior, check'em anyway
>>53111111
these numbers
they are repeating
>>53103610
that shit is old as fuck nigger
not even worth the power
>>53103940
I have a very similar setup with a 5150.
