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This with a custom PCI riser Link

Its a 2u, there are no ways to work around cooling with fans.

The issue is not the temps of the GPU nor the noise. The issue is that a blower will exhaust the heat out of card even if its hot. This way your CPU, RAM, and even drives get fresh air instead of radiating hot air from the GPU. The triple fan works fine for the GPU but all my other temps are at a loss because of it.

My recommendation is Vagrant which will let you replicate a virtualized server environment. It will run on Virtualbox, Hyper-V, Docker, VMWare, et al.

If you really can't accept the performance of a VM on your Surface Pro 3, then you're basically shit out of luck and will need to pay for a cloud-hosted solution.

I've done this for class work, but I use gitkraken now, it is a really nice GUI for git. It makes using git for new users/students easy. And it gives a nice tree of all the development. https://www.gitkraken.com/

One more suggestion, just set up a linux computer with a openssh server. Your friend can then connect to that box and tunnel all his traffic through that connection.

Here is a good guide from Digital Ocean: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-route-web-traffic-securely-without-a-vpn-using-a-socks-tunnel

PHP example:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php

The benefit of using native functions are they (should be) are faster than calling an external program, and are non-platform specific.

I am not familiar at all with the practical application of this, but I do know the theoretical answer to your question.

Do you know the OSI model? It's the 7 (or 5, leaving out layer 5 and 6) layer structure that describes how the Internet protocols are structured. Layer 1 for example is the physical link, that's literally the type of cable that we use, as well as the different ways we have to encode data for that medium. Bluetooth is only another physical link, just like fiber or copper cable might be.

The OSI model basically says that it doesn't really matter what your physical link is. You can send any data that can also go over fiber or copper over Bluetooth without any issues at all, of course minding the limitations of Bluetooth that are just unique to using Bluetooth like range and speed.

So basically the answer is: Yes, you can use UDP and TCP over Bluetooth. How you do that, I don't really know. I believe that when two devices connect using Bluetooth we can treat those links the same as WiFi or Ethernet links, so I'd just try sending data over it like that, but I'm not sure

Good idea! I would recommend that if you put the drives in the desktop, you set up a password protected share so that the laptop can access it securely. Then you can use any normal backup software to do the rest of the work (Timeshift and Déjà Dup are brilliant on Linux).

If you want 2 redundant drives, I'd look into RAID. Others here can probably explain it better than I can though.

You likely don't need a hexacore xeon. How often is the database queried? Stack exchange has some helpful posts showing that an optimized database running on an older system can sustain thousands of queries per second. I'm assuming the location isn't sustaining 50,000 SKU lookups per second. You'd probably be fine using whatever processor + motherboard you can find that supports ECC memory.

RAID 0 is questionable. You'd have to be running a huge amount of queries to justify it. I'd suggest maybe switching over to RAID 1 and schedule automatic backups every day/week onto an extra disk. Alternatively, add in two extra SSDs (if possible) in RAID 1 and use the HDDs for alternating backups. Have nightly backups done to one of the disks, and weekly backups done to the second HDD which would spend most of its time off site.

I don't think you're going to get filetype association without installing something on the client machines.

Transmission Remote GUI does what you need, and can be run from a USB stick to bypass the no-install issue.

>it possible to run transgui directly from a USB stick? A: Yes. Just create a folder on your USB stick and copy there the transgui executable file (and, optionally, the lang folder). Then create empty transgui.ini file in that folder. Now you can run the transgui executable directly from the USB stick. All settings will be stored at the stick as well.

>they've managed to get between 20-60fps in standard games

Probably even rendering at a lower resolution than 1080p

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>cheap processors that will be able to handle up to 5ish players

Depends on the server-version, depends on what the players are going to do, depends on how much you are going to optimise and how much additional things you want to run.

Most "cheap processors" wont be alot of fun..

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>What's the most efficient OS to be running a minecraft server on?

What are you comfortable to work with? Probably a distro that plays nice, is stable and works well. I'd just recommend Debian or Ubuntu, but there is not really a difference..

I even run debian as Desktop, its awesome. (if someone wants to know: Ubuntu is too bloated for me.. especially the snap crap)

You'll have to at least learn the basics of the command-line and/or let someone setup a web-panel like https://pterodactyl.io.

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>Has anyone tried using a raspberry pi for an mc server?

Not enough power.. Even the Pi4 is not fun to work with as an mc-server.

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You might want to crosspost this to r/admincraft, that'd be the exact place to ask this :)

I don't think using a domain would really make much of a difference, however if you feel like you want one anyway, you can use this site https://freedns.afraid.org/. It allows you to create subdomains for free, and there is no security risk (AFAIK) about using it, and you can create some pretty professional looking domains such as "myminecraftserver.uk.to" .

Now i'm no cybersecurity expert at all, however i've been hosting a Minecraft server on my home network (with port 25565 open on my router) for the last 5 years without a break. As far as i know, i have yet to experience any cybersecurity issues, such as my system being infiltrated or my home network experiencing a DOS. There are definitely security risks, yes ,but i wouldn't imagine it's too much of an issue.

I think you want to have a cloud of your own. This is a ( secure ? ) server where you can put data ( videos, music etc ). On another machine you can also access this data.

I think next cloud is a nice platform , you can download it here : https://nextcloud.com/install/#instructions-server

The installation manual is to be found here : https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/installation/

A brand new processor is ~$320 on amazon. probably cheaper refurb and on other merchants.

https://www.amazon.com/Intel-E3-1245V3-Quad-Core-Processor-BX80646E31245V3/dp/B00D697QGI

Take that as you will.

Is there a reason you want to connect the drives directly and not use some sort of NAS/SAN to manage the storage? You're going to be limited to 1-2m for (e)SATA, and 8m for SAS.

You won't likely find something exactly marketed like you want. Sometimes on the drive back plane each group of drives has their own data connector. You can just plug that into a SFF-8087 cable to a card bracket with SFF-8088 ports. From there just plug into the other servers as desired.

Yep, just a regular old windows machine with RDP, VNC, Logmein, any number of ways to do it.

You can even buy a KVM Switch similar to this one, where you just press a button on your desktop, and swap your keyboard, video, and mouse between PC's.

As far as 'pairity', I'm not sure I understand. Are you asking about setting up a RAID array?

Somethings that I do, not an exhaustive list by any means..

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config disable root change port from 22 to something else 2202

Create ssh key https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-ssh-key-based-authentication-on-a-linux-server

Install and configure UFW fail2ban

In .bashrc , place a script that will email you when someone does logon to your system.

There are tools out there that would have let you expand you're EFI parition. easus comes to mind. However, it's probably a bit late now.

Did you try giving a drive letter to the EFI partition using mountvol?

http://superuser.com/questions/662823/how-do-i-mount-the-efi-partition-on-windows-8-1-so-that-it-is-readable-and-write

>You can fit a 2.5" drive into a 3.5" bay with an adapter.

Please read before replying. Adapter see here. Of course you can boot from an SSD attached to a SAS/SATA bay. Depending on your server, it won't "have spare sata and power cables in the back." However, some servers still have a CDROM-drive. You can pop it out and replace with an SSD caddy.

You can boot from both.

Are those different than the PowerEdge Caddy? I bought a set of those and they didn't fit properly. I wish I could remember what was wrong with them, but it's been a few months. Not sure if Amazon links are allowed, but this is what I had purchased.

719079-B21), which consists of a replacement of the original 6 fans with a nigh-performance one. Just some CPUs are shipped with the heatsink, sadly not mine. In an Amazon on-official offer, I could find a general heatsink for a Xeon CPU. Would it fit? How can I check it beforehand?

try picking up a rack if you can

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Open-Frame-Server-Rack/dp/B00P1RJ9LS/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=21VWCI5POWMGE&keywords=StarTech.com+12U+19%22+Open+Frame+Server+Rack&qid=1658761723&sprefix=startech.com+12u+19+open+frame+server+rack%2Caps%2...

No, NordVPN is a service or a VPN client, what you need is a VPN server such as Wireguard or OpenVPN.

You could host such a server for free in a docker container on the same server you're using for your samba share and there are plenty of tutorials available.

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Here is a quick tutorial that you should be able to replicate:

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Also, check the parameters of your home router, you maybe have a "OpenVPN" option that would allow you to do exactly what you want to do.

Intel P4801X Series 100GB M.2 Optane stick. I'm literally spec'ing this as a boot drive for everything, even my home NAS. Hard to beat 60 DWPD, even better if you get two in RAID1. You can probably fit one of two in your old server as long as you have PCIe slots available, just make sure you have ample cooling. There's also a version with a heatsink added, but I don't have the number atm. Here's the adapter for older systems: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GCXCR7W

Cant afford any of these servers. Have to dig my workstation out. these were impressive machines.

The Ultra 5 (code-named Otter) and Ultra 10 (code-named Sea Lion) are 64-bit Sun Microsystems workstations based on the UltraSPARC IIi microprocessor available since January 1998 and last shipped in November 2002. They were introduced as the Darwin line of workstations.

These systems are notable for being the first in the Sun workstation line to introduce various commodity PC compatible hardware components such as ATA hard disks with CMD640 PCI EIDE controller and an ATI Rage PRO video chip.

The Ultra 5 came in a "pizzabox" style case with a 270, 333, 360, or 400 MHz UltraSPARC IIi CPU and supported a maximum of 512 MB Buffered EDO ECC RAM in four 50ns 168-pin DIMM slots. It included a single EIDE Hard Disk Drive of between 4 and 20 GB, a CD-ROM drive, three 32-bit 33 MHz PCI slots (two full-size, one short), PGX24 graphics (HD15), a parallel printer port (DB25), two serial ports (DB25 and DE9), an Ethernet port (10BASE-T/100BASE-TX) and headphone, line-in, line-out and microphone 3.5-mm jacks.

Oh yeah, easy. Even an older processor will do it for you.

My ARK server was running off of a i7-3820 with 32 GB of ram fairly well.

I ran 18.04 on it.

6 people running on it worked great. The biggest problem was the internet connection between us all. And all of those freaking updates. We ended up paying for a nitrado server because they take care of a lot of things for us.

Anyhow, if you want to pay for shipping, I have a e5-2690 v2 here and some 16 gig DDR3 ECC modules you have. You would need to find a motherboard for it to go in. (and cpu cooler, and storage, etc.)

These are server processors, but I think there are knock-off motherboards for them. I haven't used one personally. Like this chinese thing: https://www.amazon.com/MACHINIST-Motherboard-Mainboard-Channels-Processor/dp/B094HW9NRW

Also, DDR3 ECC memory and the cpu are a bit old, they work and all, but chew through power, and are defiantly not very cool. So, just make sure you have the right expectation of what this stuff is.

Anyhow, IDK, it could be a fun first step for you. PM me if you want me to send you the processor and ram, or just the cpu or just the ram or whatever.

Something like this.

200W 24V Waterproof IP67 LED Power Supply Driver Transformer, LED Power Supply Adapter 90V-140V AC to 24V DC Low Voltage Output for LED Light, Computer Project, Outdoor Light https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SLQ3K79/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_X7EBV2NY7TPBY39F5G32

Info has been hard to find on that unit, but there’s a Romanian site that lists it as drawing 24VDC @ 5A. So that power supply linked should be more than enough, but you can probably size it down as needed once you’re sure of the power draw.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08T621LGC/

This is good stuff. $6.99 for 4g.

You can get more paste of lower quality but you will never use it all. Having said that I used cheaper paste to build my main rig with a 150W CPU. Going 24/7 for over 5 years and CPU temps have never been an issue.

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Thermal-Grease-Compound-Heatsinks/dp/B005VULWLA

20g, budget minded, you're looking at ~6C warmer than the best thermal compound... virtually no difference.

The DO tutorials are pretty good, google is also your friend.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-securing-your-linux-vps

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/7-security-measures-to-protect-your-servers

I recommend PiHole if you go this route. You’ll get to learn and apply networking concepts while also removing ads from your network. https://pi-hole.net

Also, I want to ask, what are you specifically interested in about servers? The hardware or the applications that run on them?

This. Ram is important for chunk loading, the more chunks you want to keep loaded the more ram you need. CPU core count is important for how many players there will be, though this scaling is pretty poor since one thread is still managing chunks and world ticks. Core speed/instructions per second is really important, since minecraft itself is poorly optimized for multithreaded performances.

https://www.spigotmc.org/threads/to-what-extent-is-minecraft-multi-threaded.376015/

This thread contains a lot of information about to what extent the server manages threads. TLDR is that the game mostly runs on 1 core, with some extra async tasks on a second core.

MultiMC looks like it would be really fun to run with, but alas. I only run the basic java minecraft server.

I was too specific! I want to know how servers compare to each other in terms of performance. A lot like the PC Systems benchmarks PassMark posted. Your list shows the CPUs on the market. There are new processors out like Zen and chips designed using RISC V that I want to test.

Yeah you could try asking them, there's no guarantee they'd give it though. At that point you might want to look into privacy laws that might give you leverage to access that information.

Have I Been Pwned if you trust it is a website that you can check to see if your email address has been leaked in a data breach. It combs through known public breaches, but it's not a guarantee.

Yes I agree. Sorry. I know about computers but currently I am running my server off the family desktop so that is not ideal. Last one trust me. Would this be any good ? https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/142698070498084/

There are a lot of different variables, do you know what you'd like to use the server for?

The DigitalOcean tutorials are pretty good, assuming you know what you want to do going in.

If you can tell us what you'd like to do, then we'd be able to better point you in the right direction.

I found this comment.

OVH has some cheaper dedicated servers. you could host quite a few servers on one of them but it will be a bit over your budget.

There are tons of options for this. You could get something like a HP microserver or a QNAP/Synogy device that will cover your hardware requirements. On the HP you can run whatever OS and software you want, on the QNAP it may be a struggle to find what you want but what you do find will work.

Throughput wise, the HP will be better, if you're on a gig network it'll max it out, whereas the others differ depending on how much money you spend. All NAS devices should allow access for the amount of people you have.

You can install git on ubuntu as an alternative, but I don't know how to use it or if its suitable for your needs. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-git-on-ubuntu-14-04

Hope that helps.

No problem, glad I can help!

Is this something you need to physically have in your home or office? If not, you could always rent a scalable VPS from someone like Digital Ocean and create your database server there. This saves the cost on the server itself and you get the advantages of having a server in data center (redundant fiber backbones to the Internet, power backups in case of power loss, security, etc). You could start small with DO's $5/mo plan and only grow it as you need to. With Digital Ocean, if you sign up using somebody's referral link (that's mine), you get a $10 credit which would be enough to get you 2 months free of their $5 plan. That's plenty of time to evaluate their services.

I host most of my stuff with Digital Ocean and I am extremely satisfied. The product is solid and the customer support is incredible. They have one of the best knowledge bases I've ever seen as well.

The concept of bridges is of course not new, but as the protocol and server specifially has build in support for bots as bridges it works quite good.

They have a whole list of bridges you can just deploy, configure and are ready-to-use (see https://matrix.org/bridges/)

You shouldnt be shy to read logs and search around as some bridges are not as round and sometimes lack documentation.

I am pretty happy. 1 Client on my device and all my chat-platforms accessible. Saves power and is just convenient.

The bridges are not really meant to create a one-client-rules-them-all, but rather to make transitioning to matrix easier and at the speed of the users themselves.

The next close, big thing will be 'Spaces' which will enable structures with rooms and sub-rooms (discord-like) enabling better community 'Spaces' with the structure they might want/need.

I forgot that you only have one port on the router. Try this, I think it should solve your problem.

Amazon

Game servers are the best to run on Linux - less resource consumption, less possibly your server is getting hacked. Setup is not that hard, just copy and paste command line commands from guides.

If you don’t have spare PC, you can run Linux VM on the same pc under Hyper-V/VMware etc. https://linuxgsm.com/servers/ has many supported servers.

Here are some decent articles I'm sure you could borrow some points from:

• https://www.futurehosting.com/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-centos-and-ubuntu-server/
• http://www.interworx.com/community/why-choose-centos-for-your-servers-operating-system/

maybe https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox/start/start-2-m-sata/

problem with image processing is that it's so cpu-intensive, most VPS providers won't tolerate image processing, so a dedicated server may be needed.

btw are you doing single-threaded image processing, or are you using multiple cores for the processing? (the cpu for the server i linked above have horrible single-thread-performance, but tolerable multithreading-performance, with price taken into consideration)

OP - Please keep in mind that our Storage Boxes are unmanaged products. These are really designed for customers who already have a lot of experience with server administration. If you're looking for something that is a little bit easier to use, I would recommend one of our Storage Share products instead. These are based on NextCloud. Here's some more information about them if you're interested. --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online

I'd say you'd be better off getting a dedicated server since you really seem to be using your current server quite a bit like a dedicated server!

Some offerings I could reccomend:

• E5-SSD-2-64 from SoYouStart (sub-brand of OVH): Twelve threads for a decent price. Should have enough resources for your use for quite a while, unless your extension or something else absolutely explodes
• AX line from Hetzner: Affordable and perfromant specs with the possibility to upgrade RAM if your services happen to start to need over 64GB or RAM

By the way, it looks like AWS makes use of ECC under the hood as well:

> In our experience, ECC memory is necessary for server infrastructure, and all the hardware underlying Amazon EC2 uses ECC memory.

(from https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/)

I don't know about enterprise-approved, but Imdisk is awesome. It adds a menu to the control panel and lets you mount / unmount ISOs.

There's also ImdiskToolkit, which has a nicer (set of) GUI(s) and even come with support for several virtual hard drive formats.

Neither of the above have any advertising built in at all.

Essentially: No one runs OS X, because there's a limited amount of software that supports OS X.

There's no headless version of OS X. A lot of administration tools are missing for OS X. There hasn't been an OS X Server version in a few years (I know they have a server app you can buy in the app store: https://www.apple.com/macos/server/)

I would imagine the same as anything else you want to host externally - forward the appropriate ports and use a Dynamic DNS service or an existing domain if you have one. It's not something I've done with Jellyfin as I only use it internally.

EDIT - here is the official documentation around the subject https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html

You can get a free subdomain at FreeDNS and use one of the many supported dynamic dns update methods. If you didn’t guess from the name, it’s completely free.

Your solution works also, but it’s over-complicated, and VPN on a cheap VPS will probably have rather low latency and bandwidth due to the processing limits of the VPS.

> What I do not know is how I would be able to login to run applications remotely

Your hypervisor can handle this. It has a console.

VMware, proxmox, hyper-v, xen all have the concept of users and roles. You don't NEED a remote desktop for this.

For an actual REMOTE connection, you can standardize on RDP and use it natively on Windows, or use XRDP on Linux. On linux, there is also X-forwarding.

It sounds like you are trying to get to something like Apache Guacamole though.

https://guacamole.apache.org/

If Linux does not work for you, you can install Windows..

Overwise, these tutorials might help you:

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.fosslinux.com/6406/how-to-install-ubuntu-server-18-04-lts.htm%3famp

https://www.linode.com/docs/game-servers/how-to-set-up-minecraft-server-on-ubuntu-or-debian/

I wouldn't go spending money on a physical server if you've not done this before. Try a cheap VPS and go from there. Here is an example on how to do a CSGO server: https://www.linode.com/docs/game-servers/launch-a-counter-strike-global-offensive-server-on-ubuntu-14-04/

You've got your typical, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, etc.

Vultr is the cheapest, I'd probably recommend linode though (I use them, I also shamelessly put my referral link ;)

A good site to check how secure your password is would be howsecureismypassword.net/. However, it would be even more secure if you used an SSH key, which is really the recommended practice if you want a really secure connection.

I think /u/dtaivp really hit most of the main points though!

Sorry, I opened the notification and forgot to actually reply!

I have an R710 in my room and honestly it's not that loud. Hell, my desktop computer generates more noise lol. One thing to keep in mind though, is that 1u servers (like my IBM x3550 M4) are quite a bit louder than 2u servers (R710).

Honestly, rails aren't going away anytime soon, so I'd put the money towards the server/SSDs. You can always buy them later if you get a rack.

The e-waste thing is a good idea, just be careful with hard drives/data. You don't wanna get in trouble for not correctly destroying a hard drive or violating local/country requirements for HDD destruction. https://dban.org this is kinda the gold standard for HDD overwriting.

You could either do a NIC per VM or a NIC for the guest OS (if you're using Windows Server) and then one for all other VMs, but if you're using ESXi, it's pretty easy to set that all up.

Being able to connect to the server and VMs via SSH or IP will make your life a lot easier after initial setup, so then you dont have to swap your mouse/keyboard and monitor around.

Hrm. I haven't used it personally, but I'm unsure whether that would be easy to connect to from other devices, and how secure it would be? I guess if you kept Windows Server updated it shouldn't be too terribly unsecure.

The thing I - and many security experts - like about Wireguard is the simplicity of its implementation. It makes it easy to audit and prove that it's secure. See more here: https://www.wireguard.com/

>From this page, I fear that your bandwidth may be too low in up for optimal playing conditions. Are you speaking on Mbs or MBs ?

I'm not sure what the difference is? sorry i'm not good at this... I used Speedtest by Ookla, this says the actual scan.

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The licensing has changed and they've really relaxed the restrictions. The old limit of 2 sockets (not CPU cores) is now gone. The expiration date is gone. The number of physical servers is not cut off, but is a stated limit of 100.

https://www.nakivo.com/blog/free-vmware-esxi-restrictions-limitations/

• Step 1: Get another box somewhere else
• Step 2: Schedule sending backups to the other box automatically
• Step 3: Test to make sure that step #2 works
• Step 4: Test to make sure that you can restore backups created by step 2
• Step 5: Repeat above steps

Duplicity or Duplicati would be great places to start.

Since you mentioned you've got a medical practice, you really should make sure you're either using a strong password (good), or public / private keys (even better). You might even want to look at getting someone else to apply a figurative sledgehammer to your system to make sure that it's secure.

Got it. Sure you can use rsync or rclone. To make it simple, I would use rsync + SSH. Check thread https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/70581/scp-and-compress-at-the-same-time-no-intermediate-save

For SFTP I would use rclone. https://rclone.org/sftp/

Indeed.

Thinking about it, if you ran the program from a network drive (e.g. NFS over a VPN?) on a Linux machine, you could have it create a PID file on that same network drive.

Then you could have a script that runs on both hosts that first checks to see if the PID file exists. If not, then it starts the server. If it does, then it monitors the health of the process on the opposite server with inotifywait, and starts the server process as soon as the other host goes down.

Of course, this assumes there's a shared place that's always on that both hosts can access. In the event that this isn't the case, Syncthing may be able to come to the rescue, but you'd need alternate mechanism of monitoring the health of the other host.

I suppose what the OP is asking for is a sort of HA (high-availability) polyfill.

I think the point is that each <VirtualHost /> block is a different website with a different domain name. You can put whatever custom logic in there you like.

Sorry I can't help more - I'm primarily an Nginx user.

This is the one I'm currently vetting. https://jitsi.org/

It's a server, not p2p, so there'll be some hosting costs. But the software is $free and open source. And it does have a feature where you can integrate it with websites, but I haven't tried that part yet.

Go to https://gtmetrix.com/ and test your site with their tools. It can really pin down the culprit.

Does your site use SQL at all? I've found the default SQL configuration in Plesk is not optimized at all.

The rsync/cron setup will be great, but you’ll only synchronize as often as the cron job runs. If you want an always-in-sync setup, something like a self-hosted Nextcloud or ownCloud may work well (although it’s a bit more setup for you).

https://nextcloud.com/ https://owncloud.org/

I just bought two of these are they are flawless. I’m not affiliated with the seller at all. Just a happy customer.

Dell PowerEdge R620 Server 2.20Ghz 16-Core 128GB 4X 600GB Mid-Level (Renewed) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RJT19GS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_B84QK58K1HR47ZBA4RPA?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

lose the optical drive if you still have it and add 5 drives to the top 3 5.25" bays. https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Adapter-Bracket-Supplies-Computer/dp/B098335RY4

a little help from a stepper bit and one of the trays you can make both side panels drive mount locations. screwing through the side panel into the bottom of the drives

It appears that the RL-20 and RL-26 rails from Norco will fit this case.

https://www.amazon.com/Norco-Heavy-Slide-Components-RL-20/dp/B001HB72JI

The rails do not get real good reviews so the better option may be to pick up a rack shelf to sit it on.

FYI I have two 2TB 980 Pro's using this adapter right now in PCIe 3.0 slots. It's an Supermicro/Intel NAS build and they work great as L2ARC cache for 320TB.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GCXCR7W

Will this VGA monitor work? https://www.amazon.com/Eyoyo-Inch-HDMI-Monitor-Resolution/dp/B071V2CS5C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=VGA+monitor&qid=1615328672&refinements=p_36%3A1500-7500%2Cp_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin%3A17751797011%2Cp_n_feature_thirteen_browse-...

I recently put my build into the RSV-L4000, and my server into the RSV-L4500. My build has 2 120 AIO (1 gpu, 1 cpu) side by side in it. It's an old build, done piecemeal. Next time I'll probably skip water cooling. Anyways, the cooling could be more ideal I think. My GPU is pretty close to my radiator, because of this I added an extra fan that butts up next to the GPU to give it better exhaust. My CPU is doing great, I have an i7-6700k @ 4.8ghz so it throws a bit of heat but it hasn't been affected by its new configuration. I did find the original fans to be much too loud so I swapped them out with quieter noctua fans. The 80mm was especially loud. My server is absolutely silent now, and I'm considering swapping out the AIO fans for noctua too.

I have a 710 that I'm going to install a couple of SSDs in using a PCI Express card. Maybe something like this would work? The PCI express card only provides power, a sata jumper would then connect to one of the onboard SATA ports.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GPHB44F

Hot swap has a tray/caddy the drive is put into that is slid into and latched to the chassis. It plugs right into a backplane that carries the data and power through a circuit board. It's not mounted and then wired individually with separate cables. Hotswap is how your power supplies in the back work. Hotswap drives are similar, and on the T430 are slid into the front. This shows the 2x8 bays for the 2.5" version. The system for the 3.5" is a 2x4 layout.

There may be a second cable for power, but that's a very common SATA breakout breakout cable for the data. What model is your server?

https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Internal-SFF-8087-Breakout/dp/B012BPLYJC

But if I connect those 2 drives to the backplane, they will be still handled by the same P420 and so I can't boot from them. My problem is not the position of the drive, but that I can't boot from them.

Why do you say that the P420 is the only option? Can't I just add a normal PCI to SATA card (like this one)? If so, I need to find the rear cage

ok can you send a link of that? I found a server on amazon is this good for my requirements? https://www.amazon.com/Dell-PowerEdge-Windows-Quad-Core-Warranty/dp/B07L171T7Q/ref=sr_1_11?_encoding=UTF8&c=ts&dchild=1&keywords=Computer+Servers&qid=1605827370&s=pc&sr=1-11&ts_id=11036071

> EDIT: just talked to my ISP and apparently my current modem can't port forward and they'd need to install a newer one with that 'feature', does this seem right?

That depends -- right for them, or right for you? Before you let them charge you more money, try port forwarding any port at all, see what happens. Port forward port 22 and try to log onto your external IP with Secure Shell using your phone with Termux installed. (Termux is a slick mini-Linux environment that runs on a phone.)

The reason I doubt their claim is because when you connect to any Internet service, you are in effect port forwarding at least one port to allow two-way communication. Their claim could still be true, but it's not very plausible.

You need to have anybody who needs server access VPN to your network so they can hit your server directly.

TBH, and I don't mean to offend, it sounds like you would be better off just paying a host.

If it's a matter of money cancel your NordVPN.

I have NordVPN, 100Mb/s Fibre Connection. The Server its just to my friends enter and have some fun.

I forwarded the ports for the game, and linked them to my router, and even tried linking them to my pc and ip but still nothing

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I have a Technicolor (not sure the model) and a TP-Link TL-WR840N, both have options for port forwarding

Hoi Dutchy NL. ;)

Het is inderdaad mogelijk deze gewoon aan de voorkant te laten hangen, maar deze gaan ook auto's in, wordt mee gesleept, en telkens neerzetten etc. kan klappen geven en dat lijkt mij op den duur niet heel best als alles op die plaat voor komt te hangen.

En ik kan je vertellen, die FM die ik netjes las bij binnenkomst... staat helemaal niks in. Zelfs de schroeven die benoemd worden zitten er niet bij omdat het een ander systeem is. Made in the USA i guess.

Ik heb nu dit gevonden, dit is een rail die in een rack kan, zelfs op maat, ik denk dat dit de oplossing is:

https://www.amazon.nl/Codegen-Rail-Kits-Rackmounts-Zilver/dp/B07HWF2JJT

There isn't an enterprise need to mount multiple external USB drives in a rack to multiple hosts, so that's why you haven't found anything. Most rack storage enclosures are Fiber Channel or SAS and plug into an HBA card or are part of a SAN. RPi doesn't work with those directly. You can find some rack enclosures that are multi-drive to eSATA/USB, but I don't think there are any that split out the drives to multiple connections.

Sorry, should've mentioned - I have 2 Raspberry Pis (2 more on the way) that are/will be used for different things and I want each to have its own external. The pis are all/will all be rackmounted (using this) so that's why I was looking for direct attach using a rackmount solution so they can be directly above/below each other for both ease and reliability. This also eliminates the cable length concern.

I'm implementing a NAS solution for our other computers so if I have to go NAS it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. For this though, I just have a preference of direct attach if what I want exists.

So the SFF card / cable option, this is new to me. This is assuming I find something where each group of drives has their own connector, as you mentioned? Or is this something where I can get a jbod enclosure with one connection, format each drive as I need and use SFF card and cables as a splitter (of sorts) and have bay 1 mount to pi 1, bay 2 to pi 2, etc.? Or am I misunderstanding this completely? Like I said, it's new to me, I'm going to read about this option to learn more regardless.

I have tried plugging the drive into a different machine same result tried do the same thing on a different machine same result

HP ProLiant DL360 G7 4B Server 2X 2.66GHz X5650 12-Cores Total 32GB RAM 4X 146GB 10K SAS HDD

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CX639KW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VjolFb2WQ7TFE

I can’t imagine that’s cheap. Have you looked into something like NordVPN? They offer good performance for only a couple dollars a month.

If you want the experience, you don’t need all that for a VPN server. 2 cores and 4GB of ram is more than enough for a couple users.

Had no idea that existed, but I imagine something like this would work?

https://www.amazon.com/1U-Rack-Shelf-Vented-Cantilever/dp/B071YP4JL5/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?keywords=rack+shelf+19&qid=1550174295&s=gateway&sr=8-2-spons&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/NavePoint-19-Inch-4-Post-Server-Adjustable/dp/B00LT6432U/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=rack+shelf+19&qid=1550174295&s=gateway&sr=8-9#customerReviews

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MJUA2BQ/

Try ExpressVPN instead, I used it for the 3 months I spent I China. There's many different servers from all over the world you can connect to, which means it's pretty hard for the Chinese government to block entirely. Good luck!

Don't even think about a rack until you know how to set up a server. Running rack-mounted computers is very different to running a PC in a consumer case.

Ensure that your PSU is powerful enough for your machine. GPUs can take a lot of power.

Preferably, replace your mainboard or CPU so the in-built graphics works.

If you don't know what a switch is and you are new to networking then read this, the bible: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Networks-Tanenbaum-Wetherall-Paperback/dp/B00M8PFCOO/

Thanks! I'm guessing this is the module?

https://www.amazon.ca/TP-Link-TL-SM311LS-Single-mode-MiniGBIC-interface/dp/B003CFATYW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498497542&sr=8-1&keywords=SFP+module

With this cable? https://www.amazon.ca/StarTech-com-Fiber-Optic-Cable-Multimode/dp/B0001Y7GU2/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1498497626&sr=8-6&keywords=lc+to+lc+fiber+patch+cable

Because it's FC-AL, from what I understand, I would need two of each, and plug one into one side, and one into the other and loop it back to the server? Or am I misinterpreting what FC-AL is?

We use Juniper EX2200-C switches where noise is a problem, like in our classrooms. I would be surprised if HP does not have an equivalent.

https://www.amazon.com/Juniper-Layer-3-Switch-EX2200-C-12T-2G/dp/B005SFPCLO

This unit has 12 copper and 2 dual use SPF/Copper ports. I have one sitting on my desk and is working great.

The CD/DVD drive was just for software, but yea, I could just use downloaded materials. I switched the CPU's to dual Xeon E5 2620's https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CNKEY8S/ref=crt_ewc_title_srh_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Not specifically from amazon, but that would be the item.

Are you thinking of buying new? It's WAY more expensive to do so. How serious are you? Does it matter to buy new? Because I just bought this for like US$265

I'm not saying this is right for you (I'll be using it for running gaming servers and the occasional video rendering) but that's what I'm running. I don't know anything about the above servers, but I figured I'd get in an initial comment just cuz. I'll be back with more research.

> Ok so, first of all those drives are SAS, which means basically dell made a proprietary connector for their systems. So a normal drive would not be able to connect.

So, something like this would be okay,correct? I've be okay with purchasing 3.5" SAS drives, no problem!

> in a raid 5, all drives have to be the same size. You also run higher risk of failure with anything above 1tb drives in this particular raid level.

So, my understanding from the Dell technician is that I can't actually add any more drives to the current Array. I would have to creat a NEW virtual disk. That's really the heart of my qustion. If I create a new Virtual Disk that houses just large storage hard drives with a lower 7200 RPM, will this affect the performance of the current Array running at 15k RPM? The current Array includes the OS and everything, so i assumed if I just created a new Virtual Disk, the performance of the faster drives would not be affected.

One of these adjustable 12volt temp controllers would probably work. Just set the probe and set the temp.

anyone know if you can order the dell servers without drives?

I'd much rather use these over the Dell provided ones at over $700 a pop https://www.amazon.com/2TB-Datacenter-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00CYSYZTS/

I have no idea if its a truly good backplane but for less then 7mm

http://www.amazon.com/DOCK-ToughArmor-MB998SP-B-6Gbps-Mobile/dp/B00TL4US8K/ref=pd_sim_147_7?ie=UTF8&dpID=41P5eJZJIKL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=09H1WHGN7BP4SB1YAV71

I have used this sucker though with a bunch a laptop drives and it worked fine for me

http://www.amazon.com/DOCK-ToughArmor-MB996SP-6SB-6Gbps-Mobile/dp/B009I87Q2U/ref=pd_sim_147_6?ie=UTF8&dpID=41QwZkFDVNL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1YW141ZVQNKEHGJP4GY4

Also if you wouldn't mind sharing what motherboard, ram and where you purchased as I'm planning a similar build soon.

Thanks

As a follow up question, has anyone used a m.2 or pcie sata adpater in one of their servers? link link

So I can use these servers to suck the internet out of my community? This would be awesome to give me neighbors a piece of my mind! :D

But even if i bought a Cisco server router, like this. Your basically telling me that even if I bought a server router, the speeds coming out of my house to my isp is not strong, nor fast enough? I would have to buy some kind of commercial speeds from my isp? http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-AS2511-RJ-Access-Server-Router/dp/B006WQO2Q4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457653359&sr=8-1&keywords=server+router