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Do You Have A Home Server?
Well, I am getting a little board right now, so here is the thread... Do you own a home server?
If so, Answer these questions:
HDD Space?
ISP?
RAM?
Processor?
Computer Model?
Operating System?
Uptime?
Location? (If this is too personal, do not share)
Here is my setup:
I am currently using my old Asus EEE 900 Netbook as a home server to mess with. It is fun to mess with, I like to keep my backups on it also.
Asus EEE 900 Server Specs:
512MB DDR Ram
4GB SSD (Server running off of 180GB Maxtor External HDD)
Intel Celeron Mobile @ 900Mhz
ISP: Road Runner, 10mbp/s down 1mbp/s up
Operating System: CrunchBang Linux (OpenBox Linux Distro based on Debian 6 Stable)
Control Panel: OpenPanel
Location: Central Florida
Uptime: jeffrey@Shark:~$ uptime
17:02:34 up 43 days, 3:15, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
jeffrey@Shark:~$
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I really want to learn about this, can you give me a trustable reference how to do this?
@Andri, How to turn a computer in your house into a server? That is easy! :P
Well, not for a pure noob like me, mate.
We just run a NAS drive for all our storage in a RAID1
I have 2, mostly used for Vmware vSphere lab.
Host:
Dell T410
2x Xeon 5520 (4c with ht)
32GB DDR3 (I got 8GB with it a few years ago, recently upgraded to 32GB for a few hundred dollars)
6x 1TB 7200 SATA Raid 50
Perc 6i controller
running vSphere 5.0 hypervisor
Storage:
Homemade box with:
E3-1220 cpu (4c, I swear this cpu is faster than the 2 xeons in the T410 lol)
16GB DDR3
8x 1.5TB 7200rpm drives
4x 80GB 2.5 inch drive (boot drives, mirrored, 2 spares as I got them on sale)
NexentaStor OS
ZFS raid
I also have a Dell Optiplex 760 (core2duo, 8GB of ram) that I use a second host when I need to test High availability or vmotion stuff (moving a vm from one host to another)
The Dell is overkill, but I got a good discount on it and could not say no to it.
The storage server is overkill as well for storage but it was fairly inexpensive to build and the entire machine uses 40 watts of power at idle, it costs nothing to run it.
Here is a little html page loading from my home server, http://server.jeffthecomputergeek.com. Beware, it is protected with Cloudflare!
I use it as http proxy/filter, development web environment, dns proxy, ipv6 gateway, nfs server, smb server and few other daemons.
Home server? Okay.
"protected"? edit.170.edit.219
HP Pavilion XL756
Pentium III 667MHz
128MB SDRAM
30GB HDD
100Mbit NIC, connected to a 100Mbit switchport
ISP: Windstream, 12Mbps down, 768kbps up
OS: Debian 6
Location: Concord, North Carolina, USA
Uptime:
It is currently hosting a game server (Live for Speed) and an IRC bot written in PHP.
Self built
Intel Mainboard Atom N270 at 1.6 ghz
2GB RAM DDR2
1x 80GB IDE
4x 250GB SATA (with the help of a pci card)
Debian 6
Mostly use as a NAS, but also works as a home dev server.
Uptime, less than a month.
HDD Space? 120 GB 3200RPM 2.5" IDE
ISP? Virgin Media, 60/6 mbit/s
RAM? 512MB DRR
Processor? Athlon XP-M, 1.2Ghz
Computer Model? HP Pavilion Laptop
Operating System? XP SP3
Uptime? A few months if soft reboots for updates don't count
I use it as a HTTP server for quick sharing of files, Subsonic Server, for idling on a second Team Fortress 2 account, and various other daemons on it so I can manage it remotely, FTP/VNC and so on.
HDD Space? Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB
ISP? BrightHouse
RAM? 2GB DDR2
Processor? Intel Atom 230 @ 1.60GHz
Computer Model? Custom
Operating System? Arch Linux
Uptime? 163 days, 8:54
Location? Pinellas Park, FL
Pic!
I have a couple of boxes running debian as host OS and various distros and xp as guests. Main (and the one online 24/7) is E350 powered, 8 gb ram and hosts my freenas on it's own HDD of 2 TB, 2 Tor VPSes on 2 connections, an XP for the cameras and internet radio receiver, a VPS for hosting my friends with EHCP, a pfSense for QoS and failover + TS3 server with max 200 slots on Debian too. The main HDD is 1 TB.
The other box is similar, only 4 gb ram, tho, and running Xen as host and SME Servers as guests and is not on permanently, only when I need to test stuff since I use SME for my work and my friends which want servers SOHO mostly. HDD for VMs is 1x400 gb and the OS on a laptop HDD of 80 gb.
Using VMWare Server on main and Xen the secondary because that is the setup at work, but I did prefer VMWare Server before, too bad it is discontinued now.
E350/E450 are great for my needs, mostly BW and space, not CPU intensive and they are draining little power, have passive cooling, can survive long blackouts on a small UPS together with the media converters and a couple of switches+DD-WRT router, very stable, running for months at a time, only interrupted so far by very long blackouts (welcome to Romania where power is less reliable than the Internet). If you want a limited home server that wont drain too much power and can still host a lot of VPSes, Atom 510/525, E350/E450 integrated on the mobo with passive cooling are doing a fine job for traffic, routing, forums, TS3, etc. I/O is a pain tho, I use Samsung HDDs for their low thermal output but they are not known for great speed, even on SATA3 and a RAID/SAS solution is deffinitelly overkill for my budget and power restrictions.
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P.S. 1
ISPs are RCS-RDS and Romtelecom, one is 10-20 Mbps up and down (advertised as 100, but rarely reaches 50) the other is 30 down, 6 up but is really delivering 90% of that. Both cost about 10 EUR in average with second being a bit more.
P.S. 2 I may take a pic if I remember
HDD Space: 2x1TB WD Blacks
ISP: local WISP
RAM: 4GB DDR2
Processor: 3.4GHz Pentium D
Computer Model: IBM System x3250
Operating System: Debian 5
Uptime: 46 days, 7:48 (stupid power outages)
Location: Ontario
Box takes a ridiculous amount of power idle (~115 watts) so I'll probably retire it at some point in summer in favour of something less expensive to run. All it really does is samba, µTorrent, svn, ircd, JIRA, and a bit of http.
CPU : AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor
Ram : 3gb
OS : Ubuntu
Disk : 32x2tb in raid60
Uptime : 00:11:40 up 151 days
I use the box for, 1 Windows Home Server runs in KVM, the rest is used for media storage, as well as fetching copies of backups for Hostigation web/solus/cacti/centreon data. No customer data is backed up to my house.
IR jealous! What kind of drives? We just got rid of a bunch of 2TB Samsungs because the IO was horrible in RAID50 no matter what RAID controller we used.
Whoa, that's a lot of storage for "media"
"We just got rid of a bunch of 2TB Samsungs because the IO was horrible in RAID50 no matter what RAID controller we used. "
IO on Samsungs is really horrible, but they are also low key in noise, heat and pretty reliable. At least the low end versions of different brands I tried so far. It ultimately depends on what you use them for, in case of back-ups and media storage, well, that works.
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They were reliable as hell but when we tried using them for storage but it was just to slow to do anything and we couldn't even max out our 1Gbps connection (max was 500Mbps).
@Jeffrey: crunchbanglinux is awesome, using it too for like a year haha
I brought both CrunchBang and ArchBang ISOs to work with me tonight, not sure which I'm going with to replace my Fedora install.
:O Why would you replace Fedora? Fedora is awesome!
It's to "heavy". I guess I can install Openbox on it to see how it feels but I like the minimalist approach.
While I have absolutely no experience with archbang, i love the debian core of cruchbang
HDD Space?
ISP?
RAM?
Processor?
Computer Model?
Operating System?
Uptime?
Bunch of old computers doing different stuff ... bringing everything into one vsphere 5 server when theres some spare time during evenings.
The vsphere is a HP ML110G5 with one X3330 Intel Xeon.
6,5 TB
7 GB RAM
~ # uptime
08:27:55 up 53 days, 12:40, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
ISP is Telia (Sweden), dynamic IP which is shit ... but I'll cope
One pc used as scratch NAS (was a development machine with web server/svn/git repositories)
Disk: 2x500GB sata in software raid
ISP: myself (I'm the CTO there) with a static /29
RAM: 6GB
Processor: AMD 64 X2
Computer: homemade
OS: unmanageable linux (it was debian etch one time, but it was used for all kind of custom library compilation and development so it was left waiting for a reinstall, now I and my wife bet on the day it will die)
uptime
09:38:00 up 1105 days, 23:08, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
:-)
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Yes.
1Ghz ARM Marvell
1GB DDR3 RAM
8TB in Raid 6 (5.7TB Usable)
2x1Gbit Uplink
Linux ofc.
Uptime: 29 day 14 Hour 9 Minute(s)
ISP: It is for the home. but BT.
All the computers, tv's, stereo systems, phones connect to it inside the house and share and stream media from it.
Very good I/O speed, the system is installed on an USB stick
Unitymedia (cable internet provider) 128 mb/s down; 5 mb/s up
Ubuntu Server Edition
It has a 250gb external HDD attached and i use it mainly as NAT/router and for usenetting
Am running a NAS With OpenVPN,Bittorrent,Music Streaming,Twonky Media Server.FTP,
800MHZ Arm9
512MB RAM
4GB SWAP
4TB HDD's (2TB Accessible)
Linux
10Mbps Uplink