NAS is how most people get into this. It’s nice have a /comfy/ home for all your data. Streaming your movies/shows around the house and to friends is good feels. Repurpose an old desktop, buy a SBC, or go with cheap used enterprise gear. Lots of options and theres even a flowchart. Ask.
/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a pfsense box and configuring some vlans. Theres always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re godtier already? Setup openstack and report back.
>What software should I run? install gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin to replace netflix, nextcloud to replace googlel, ampache to replace spotify, the list goes on and on. Look at the awesome selfhosted list and ask.
>Datahoarding ok here? YES - you are in good company. Shuck those easystores and flash IT mode on your H310. All datahoarding talk welcome.
>Do I need a rack and all that noisey enterprise gear? No. An old laptop or rpi can be a server if you want.
Please expand it, also don't use your real name or any password when you register. Preferable use cock.li or something anonymous. Or just email the admin with the username and password you want.
What Should i Do With my leftover speedport 723v b ?
Christopher Miller
>r*ddit reported
Parker Ramirez
I'm looking into virtualization on my fileserver (JBOD via mergerfs with SMB + extras), I'm curious if it would be more stable to pass the drives through to a guest for storage handling or manually configure the storage pool on the host itself? I will most likely be running Proxmox.
The cunt actually took off with our shit. Fuck. I'm only using his service for like 2 months - has this happened before?
Blake Phillips
are you fucking serious right now
Aaron Harris
Just say what you have to say and stop asking rhetoric questions.
Dylan Peterson
when can i access my emails
Christopher Adams
How the fuck am I supposed to know? I'm just as clueless as you are.
Jackson Nelson
there have been a lot of downtimes in the past. but i havent logged in like 3 months and straight away it says it down so i dont know if its forever or not
Nolan Nelson
It only went down today. I received an email 12 hours ago but when i reset my password for origins for my free copy of sims 4 it failed to get email. I use it as my main email as well....
Brayden Richardson
Not sure what you're trying to ask but Proxmox can manage containers and VMs to host databases, servers, ect.
As well as filesharing tasks like samba, SMB, NFS, SSH, SFTP(ssh tunnel not ftp)
Also authentication like Kerberos, 2FA, smartcards, ect
You can host jellyfin/mariadb/squid/snort for example.
It also has a very broad selection of FS options. GlusterFS, Ceph, LVM as well as the useally mentioned.
Joshua Johnson
What's the longest downtime you have seen in the paat?
shared ramdisk, try adjusting some vms to be totally memory resident, caching
just a few things i pulled out my ass
Chase Price
Opening 69 tabs of UHD porn in Chrome
Owen Perry
i'll see about using some ramdisk for my singular qemu virtual machine headless
Landon Turner
My home server is currently running Debian stable (headless) and I'd like to add some VMs. Guests will probably be Debian stable as well and also headless. What virtualization software would /hsg/ recommend? Should I just go with KVM?
Jack Hill
i went for qemu
Carson Howard
I was under the impression that qemu worked with KVM for virtualization, I guess I still have some reading to do.
Connor Jenkins
yeah i guess i do the --enable-kvm when i launch
Hunter Wood
I see. Any reason you went with this option over something else?
Liam Rivera
you can run an electron app (from authentic code artisan sources only) for two minutes
Julian Edwards
not really apart from it looking neat and easy to get started with i set up the vm i use now mainly for testing so im still considering my options thinking of hooking up virsh for management but apart from that no maybe it would be nice to have a web ui for this stuff but i dont think i will be frequently launching VMs so i'll hold off on that
I'll have to play around with qemu and KVM. I don't think I'll bother with a web interface either, all I'll need are 1 or 2 VMs which will host some services and will always be up as long as the host is, so once I set them up I probably won't need to mess with them any more.
Justin Hernandez
Yo my uni got a great opportunity and they want someone, i talked to my prof and he said well he usually look for someone with some experience if hes a first year, so whats the bare minimum or something cool i can do related to networks? I have no equipment and not exactly a lot of money, and oh i havent had a networking class yet, is it over or can i still do something? The application process should be around october. Oh its related to servers but im not exactly sure what it is
Easton Brown
I wasn't very specific, but appreciate your responses. I currently run a DIY Debian NAS but want to install proxmox over debian and move the services currently on my NAS to a guest on the VM. I'm a little hesitant to fuck with the host system too much but looks like I'll be throwing mergerfs and some utils on there.
Tyler Wood
Does anyone know a decent modem I can get these days? I dont want to cuck out to xfinity any longer but I'm wary of all the brand names like (((motorola))). Its hard to know whats even usefull for a small home environment.
It shouldn't since you can replace the whole thing with a wol script.
fucking retard
Easton Brown
interested as well, I need an alternative to plex since they dropped plugins. kodi is a bit heavy and way more than what I need. really all I want is something light with a nice looking webui/app that handles all my media and has at least one working streaming option for shit I don't have or will only watch once
Austin Scott
Hello /hsg/,
bough an atomic pi the other week, planning on doing some HA with it when the other 2 pi's come in. Fucking jews bumped up the price of it from 35 to $50 now.
Going to but an LTE adapter as failover and have 3 nodes running a webserver/dns/some other shit. Thinking about buying a bunch of 18650's and putting my router/modem along side it for truly HA goodness.
Anyone played around with the atomic pi's what you using them for?
Ah, but you see, that does not provide the same level of data safety as physically disconnecting the machine from the mains! Keeping a cold storage machine connected to the mains only adds unnecessary risk. If some power grid fault causes the primary server to fail, this machine will not be affected.
Oh, and the power consumption of the timer is roughly one third of the server's while powered off, which equates to about one free lunch a year in savings.
had to jerryrig some power connectors using old pci cables and gpio headers. Only draws 10w~ under full pelt though, can easily power it off a usb 3.1
Austin Perez
Wow, that thing looks great. Such a wide feature set.
Nolan Moore
how can i be like you
Chase Morales
Is it worth to start with an x220? I'd like to do a seedbox, nextcloud and maybe Plex/jellyfin. If yes should I remove the battery or just set a threshold? Also what would be the best way to connect a couple of 3,5" drives? Thanks
Carson White
I wouldn't suggest you start your first server with a laptop, especially if you want 3.5" drives. Why would you look at a laptop for this purpose, of all things?
Mason Collins
Simply because I already have it and doesn't take much space. I've seen Dell optiplex on ebay with a I5-3something and 8GB rams for ~100 euros, decent option? I doesn't seem to be possibile to add more then one 3,5" drive though
Carter Cooper
I suppose if you want to start out, you could use the laptop if you already have it anyway. My first home server was some ITX mobo with a soldered Atom CPU and a 1.5TB external HDD over USB3, so a laptop wouldn't really be any worse than that I guess. When I wanted to expand I needed a whole different system, of course.
Connor Ward
What's the best way to start? I see a lot of used servers on our local Craigslist but I don't know whether it's cheaper/better to just build a server from a desktop or get a used server.
What is the sas IN and OUT for? Thinking about picking up one of these and filling it with 2tb drives, any major draw backs to hardware like this? It's just an enclosure and power bricks right?
