Discuss building, setting up your own homeserver and maintaining the services and demons on it. This is all about taking control over your own services. Not leaving things up to some weird company that doesn't have your best interests at heart.
Are you interested in learning GNU+Linux or BSD administration and configuration better? Becoming a openrc expert? want a cozy little BSD machine to run services on and interact with. Or practice more advanced and complicated networking setups.
I have an old dell dimension home computer running pfsense with a gigabit NIC so it has two interfaces. It just werks somehow.
Then I have an old media centre computer that runs the services I need including web hosting etc. Again somehow these just seem to cope even though being way off server spec.
The media centre computer runs Arch Linux because that's what I was in to when I was setting it up a few years ago.
Can I improve without changing hardware?
Jose Green
So I have an old i5 650 HP box running pfsense only doing basic stuff with suricate and such but I feel like it waste. What are other suggestions I can add too pfsense? Thinking of adding a VPN to it.
Cameron White
I'm using pfsense as a VPN but only for when I'm using open WiFi. It works but means my ISP gets even more of my data.
Michael Martinez
>Odroid HC1
Why are you shilling the outdated version instead of the far superior, improved HC2?
Benjamin Wright
Just changed the thermal paste off my small Elitedesk 800 Mini home server.
Jaxson Moore
pfSense has a built-in OpenVPN server.
James Hernandez
And 2 others but I can't remember which
Michael Foster
>Airsonic make my fanless Orange Pi+ 2 overheat and it isn't responding anymore, not even SSH >My "home server" isn't at my home
>I wish I knew why people chose enterprise class disks
Aaron Rogers
How important is your data?
Joshua Gonzalez
God damn you are dumb. I'll bet you spent $300 on 2TB enterprise drives just to feel smart. I've got some snake oil for you as well if you are interested.
Landon Hall
probably because they write an enterprise level of data to them. most of my disks are just a huge landfill of data. they will be obsolete in terms of speed and capacity before the error rate gets to them... and if it does it's still in RAID1 or 10.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Scale and use case determines whether you need ECC and enterprise disks or not. Why waste the money, even if you're rich?
Jack Howard
>only spending $300 on disks
>snake oil Look at unrecoverable error rates and MTBFs you retard
>they write an enterprise level of data to them god you're retarded
>and if it does it's still in RAID1 or 10. you have no idea what RAID is for do you retard?
>>desperately justifying your poor decisions Guess you gave up.
Jaxson Cooper
it's just a meme
Austin Collins
>you have no idea what RAID is for do you retard? disk failures
Ryan Green
Is that all you got?
Jackson Butler
Where do I start learning about networking and general server stuff? It's such an expansive field I get lost.
Robert Sanders
data integrity what are we talking about? are you trying to imply raid won't work with non enterprise disks?
Hudson Watson
Start with subnets and then look at switches, routing. Look at how your ISP assigns you an IP and then have a look at subnetting out your network and VLANs
Nathan Ward
What's the name of that trend where people who just learned about something act like they're hot shit and the masters of it? For example
Aiden Wright
t. autist with thousands of ameribucks invested in homeservers
Camden Miller
He's implying you shouldn't have that capability without spending money on meme enterprise drives.
Brandon Rogers
HC2 is the same thing, just for a 3.5" HD
Ayden Cook
>saw this on imgur couple of days ago
Yeah anyone that came across that post what exactly was he talking about with 9 other hours? a big internal network or just a way for the family to connect to it easier? idk...
Jackson Kelly
Lmao what do you think a server is?
Chase Powell
Are you using a VPN without encripted comunication?
Ayden Watson
> Encripted
No I'm using openvpn with TLS 1.2 and shit
Luis Morris
Don't really know wether this is the right adress but I'm trying to run a webpage locally on my computer. (5etools.com). The site hosts a download to a zip archive with all the HTML files and some other stuff I don't know anything about. Opening the HTML files however doesn't give me version I can see online, the pages are almost empty. I tried Edge, Chrome and Firefox and tried adding "--allow-file-access-from-files" to the shortcut but it doesn't work for me. Any ideas?
Mason Hall
Any recommendations for a cheap mITX or µATX that can take a 1220v3 and comes with ECC DDR3 + at least 4 SATA ports?
Joseph Collins
Do you have TBs of data to store under zfs? No, then no problem Yes, buy it
Easton Ross
Because the stuff that is usually there is being loaded from the server...
Hudson Martin
it's all there read the stuff about how to use the zip file from the website. chrome should have no problem opening the index. firefox needs some tweak I forget what it is.
Adding to this, the readme says that Firefox should open the files with no problem but this appears to be either outdated or it's a problem on my end. Chrome doesn't work, nor does Edge.
Kayden Cooper
Redownloading it and opening it again with Firefox did the trick. Case closed. Thanks for the help anway. Have a nice day.
Caleb Richardson
You guys think I can refunction this into a server? I am abandoning this build entirely when my new parts arrive.
I personally bought an embedded CPU+Motherboard. Look for something along the lines of a J5005. They sip electricity. If you need something stronger for transcoding or something similar then stick with your current rig.
Hunter Smith
DDR3 running at 800Mhz??
Henry Jenkins
1600Mhz you silly billy
Angel Bennett
yes its very very shit
Oliver Jackson
yo should I build a home server, or just buy a 2u power edge 710 or someshit
Logan Garcia
>tfw apartment is a steady 85 degrees in the summer fuck you R710, I should really get a window AC
>home server general What's wrong with homeservers?
Nicholas Martin
oh shit didn't even see this. R710 is no cakewalk. I love it though but it's a real trial by fire for beginners since when you start installing 3rd party hardware the fans go crazy and it sounds like a jet engine.
you can use the following IPMI commands to override the fans: >allow the override: raw 0x30 0x30 0x01 0x00 >2760 rpm: raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x0f >3360 rpm: raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x14 >6000 rpm: raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x2c
I don't remember how I calculated those unfortunately.