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I guess many here run their own homeserver, so maybe we could have a thread dedicated to that. - What do you use it for; NAS, backups? - What kind of hardware/software do you use? - Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour?

>>695 - What do you use it for Storage, virtualization - What kind of hardware/software do you use? Hardware: Super micro Software: Vmware vSphere - Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Important

>>- What do you use it for; NAS, backups? NAS, media server, torrenting. It's also connected to a TV but I almost never watch stuff there. >>hardware Apart from the RAID, it's made of old stuff I had lying around. Say, CPU is an Athlon 4800. >>software It runs Debian. If I could go back I might go for a ZFS setup however, and I'm told that is like kicking dead whales down the beach pneumatically on Debian; might have used FreeNAS + virtual machines then. Otherwise rtorrent+ruTorrent and Plex (yeah it's proprietary but it works like clockwork). It's also almost constantly running ffmpeg to reencode stuff to save space. >>- Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? It's fun but it's definitely a convenience at most.

>>695 >- What do you use it for; NAS, backups? It's just a (slow) seedbox that I use to seed things I grab from public trackers. >- What kind of hardware/software do you use? A raspberry pi with a 1TB hard drive running gentoo and rtorrent. Torrents are made available to the rest of my network through HTTP and NFS. >- Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? No but it's pretty useful. Power consumption is low and I made a few script that let me add magnet links to rtorrent in a single keystroke, abandonning all of this would be annoying.

>>695 Currently I am using old PC (no ECC or IPMI) as a simple NAS with smb/nfs shares and torrent-client. Apart from it I have an ARM SoC (BananaPi) working as radius, captive portal nothing fancy actually and dns resolver. > hardware I have no idea, seriously unknown am2 motherboard with downclocked phenom. But I have 5x3Tb drives for a main storage and single 1tb drive acting as a "volatile" (mostly for torrents). > software FreeBSD and Debian.

- What do you use it for; NAS, backups? HTTP, email, VPN and Mumble servers. Backups are done by the simplest way I could've think: create a tar with an unix timestamp name, mount a HDD and move the tar to it, unmount the HDD. - What kind of hardware/software do you use? Just a custom build rig which is my main machine, gaymen playground and workstation. It runs Debian stable with backports, Apache, Postfix e Dovecot, OpenVPN, etc... - Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? While it is a pretty wonky amateur setup, I host most of my web services on it. So it's pretty important.

I use it as a webserver and as a way to store information I might need later when dualbooting to a different OS on my desktop. I also ssh into it when I don't have access to Unix. It runs OpenBSD and it's just fine, on this really ancient PC. It's extremely important to my life these days. >>761 >While it is a pretty wonky amateur setup, I host most of my web services on it. So it's pretty important. Pretty much the same here.

>>695 Sadly very little A meager "website" which is just a random filedump (has all my anime) Seedbox except torrenting rapes my router's RAM(?) (WNDR3800CH) and causes problems Backup of all my photos, done manually like a pleb. And I use Amazon because I don't trust myself not to fuarrrk the backups Daily Driver with CS:GO and a web browser

>What do you use it for Storage, VPN, webserver >Hardware Motherboard from an old HP Laptop >Software nginx, OpenVPN, vsftpd >Is it an important part of your computing environment? Important

My home server is a simple first-gen raspberry pi. I wanted to make it a whole cluster of devices using all kinds of salvaged hardware, but my test drive with the pi soon revealed the number of ways in which my ISP made the whole home server life infeasible. Nearly all <1024 ports are blocked on a residential connection, supposedly for security reasons (I guess that *did* end up saving a few people from wcry). Several times daily connection drops of a few seconds, so anything that needed to be permanently online was out. I've thought about instead making a home server only for LAN purposes, like a fileshare for the family, but my family members don't seem particularly interested. Maybe when I move out I'll give the idea another shot.

>>695 >What do you use it for; NAS, backups? NAS,practice lab >What kind of hardware/software do you use? Hardware is TS140 and Raspi. I run Proxmox and mainly stick to CentOS VMs >Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Both I guess. It's a hobby but Im also practicing since I work in IT

I've been trying to get one going for months now, but my main choke is that I have a busted ThinkServer TD200 that I want to use. It has such inconsistent problems and has only once (since I've owned it) come up to a login screen. I usually get 30-45 second into the BIOS before it shuts down. As far as I can tell, it's not overheating... I am past the point where it's necessary, so I'm giving up and using some salvaged junk that came with Vista. I don't know what I'm going to put on it, but it's going to be bare. UNLESS I get this Mac Pro G5 that I made an offer on. Buddy at work bought it as surplus and realized that it's soykaf, but it still works and runs Lion. I might honestly leave it as is and use it for simple hosting and file storage.

>>695 >- What do you use it for; NAS, backups? Mostly. It's also something I can SSH into when I'm out and about to use as a poor-man's VPN. I run a few VMs but that's just playing around. Used to run a Terraria server, back when my friends played that. >- What kind of hardware/software do you use? Debian Jessie on an old Gigabyte X58 board and an i7 930. I'm glad I got 24GB of RAM for it back when it was cheap. >- Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Yes. >>742 >I might go for a ZFS setup however, and I'm told that is like kicking dead whales down the beach pneumatically on Debian Not really. Debian, unlike Ubuntu, is still leery of whether shipping a binary CDDL module is kosher, but they stuck a source module in contrib. Enable the backports repo and you can get it, and DKMS will compile it and install it for you. Apt will show you a warning about the CDDL/GPL thing and how you might not be able to redistribute your kernel+compiled module, you hit OK, and off you go. You have to contend with the usual ZFS gotchas (create your pool -o ashift=12, remember that you can't remove vdevs, etc) but it works fine. There used to be issues where the ARC and the kernel's file caches would fight each other, but that's fixed. About the only platform-specific thing you should watch out for is that the package drops a cron job that scrubs automatically once a month, which made me alarmed that my pool started scrubbing when I didn't tell it to. What I'd really like is for Btrfs to finally stop being broken. ZFS will make you sorely miss rebalancing and the ability to remove devices. Supposedly RAID56 is finally fixed in 4.12, but we'll see.

>>696 >homeserver >vmware vsphere. >important part of your computing environment

Does it count as homeserver if I work at an ISP with a datacenter and a 10G uplink to the SIX? >- What do you use it for; NAS, backups? Mail, NAS, Git, Currently spooling up some FreePBX and ejabberd/jitsi servers, and a few personal projects I'm hosting a few sites for some friends. >- What kind of hardware/software do you use? Server Hardware: Supermicro, one 2U with 12 3.5" bays, and a 1U which I'll be populating with 8 500GB SSDs. I'll be adding another few 1U servers and expanding out my Ceph array over the next year or so. Server Software: Proxmox, OVS, Ceph. I might add docker just because some asses tend to only distribute their projects in docker containers, but that would be asinine just to get some soykaf like Discourse up and running. Network Equipment: 2 1U Supermicros with 10G NICs doing router-on-a-stick with VyOS and PFSense. PFSense is doing Suricata/OpenVPN, VyOS is doing the routing. 1 Quanta lb4m switch (48 port 1G, 2 SFP+ 10Gbe), OS is broadcom's cisco knockoff os, fastpath. 1 Microtik CCR Switch, unconfigured for management network/ipmi soykaf. I'm looking for a Juniper EX2500 for my 10G storage backbone, because JunOS is life. I managed to pick up a few network power/serial console switches for free during a cleanup when I first got hired >- Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Yeah, it's a good break from Hyper-V, ESXi 4/5/5.5/6, and Old BSD that is my day job. (fuarrrk hosting mail for ingrates and idiots)

>>1727 >I'm looking for a Juniper EX2500 for my 10G storage backbone, because JunOS is life. Nix on the EX2500, it's not running JunOS, it's running a slightly customized IBM NetworkingOS from the RackSwitch series; it also has a fuarrrked serial port. Oh Well.

>>695 - What do you use it for; NAS, backups? One for NAS, one for testing and training. - What kind of hardware/software do you use? Ubuntu server for the NAS, VMware for the test server. - Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Important, both for home use and advancing my career as a computer toucher.

anyone have advice for reducing/managing power consumption? recommendations for a highly efficient power supply? i had a dual cpu/redundant psu hp proliant with xen, but it was overkill and the power bill was insane. currently working on a more pragmatic setup. >what do you use it for backups, storage, some network services. i want to do self hosted email at some point. >hardware old supermicro 1u >software just debian. might set up xen or kvm if i end up needing it. >is it important yeah. mostly just for the NAS.

>>1468 Can you just forward the blocked ports to other numbers?

I have a raspberry pi that I tried to use as a storage server. DId not work out as for some reason the power to my USB HDD kept cutting off even though it's USB hub had an external power suppy. I will try to reuse it into a hardware firewall.

An old laptop i use for: -webbhosting -plex -tor node -boinc research projects node and was gonna add a hdd to download torrents.

>>695 I've got this tiny little computer I use for server stuff. It's really meant for industrial use, but I got it free from work and it's brand new. I use it for local version control and local storage since my internet is soykaf. I store a bunch of ps2 games on it and use opl to connect to it via smb. I use it for random torrenting. The most important thing it does is I have it connected to my weather station so it handles all that and it has a few sdrs hooked up too. > hardware It's got an N3160 in it and it runs Slackware. > importance It's nice, but it doesn't matter a ton. The weather stuff is its most important use, but I could do that on my desktop too.

>what do you use it for media storage / streaming (emby, madsonic) usenet / torrent box (sickrage, couchpotato, transmission-nox) syncing (syncthing disco, nfs) personal website (jekyll + apache) and just general storage + backup (manual, literally unscripted cp) wanna set up a local dns for adblocking soon >what kind of hardware / software pentium G45xx something something, 4gb ram in a small fractal case 3 * 3tb wd reds in mdadm raid5 (will expand soon, maybe move to zfs or btrfs) debian jessie >importance if it were stolen, I'd lose my media collections, but syncthing keeps local copies of my most important stuff (password db, legal docs, etc). I can easily move the syncthing discovery server to something else.

Does a raspberrypi count as a server? I have a rpi1 under a drawer running openvpn and tor.

i use to run a media server. but now i just run pi.hole to stop ads

>>695 >What do you use it for; NAS, backups? I use mine as a NAS and to host test instances of stuff I develop. Also metrics collection and visualisation. >What kind of hardware/software do you use? Pic related. ProLiant MicroServer Gen8, Intel G1610T, 6G RAM, Debian 9. The CPU is weak as frk but sufficient for my modest use. I run an ownCloud instance that I share with some family members and friends. Also collectd, InfluxDB and Grafana for metrics. Other hosts in my network run collectd and send their measurements to my InfluxDB instance. For torrenting I've got a transmission-daemon instance in a separate network namespace so I can have my torrent traffic going through a VPN without affecting the rest of the system (and without running the torrent client in a VM). >Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? It's very important to me.

- What do you use it for: openvpn, IDS/IPS, pentesting lab, storage, virtualization, testing security tools, hosting media, game servers, webservers, etc. - What kind of hardware/software do you use? 2x dell r710 each with 2x quad core xeons, 144gb ram, 10tb storage, running proxmox UPS, switches, kvm - Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? little bit of both

>>3466 thinking of getting one of those, would you recommend?

>>3680 If you're not planning on doing anything computationally expensive on it, sure. I bought the ~200 € version (no HDDs , I still had some to use) and it's been serving me well over the past two years. Power usage is ~30 W idle and it's not terribly loud. Fun fact #1: it has a USB port on the mainboard. If you're a security nut you can attach an HSM there; or maybe a microphone for tamper detection. Fun fact #2: booting takes ages. It's usually one or two minutes until the boot loader starts running. Maybe look into kexec. Here's some info on upgrading the CPU. http://caiustheory.com/upgrading-microserver-g8-cpu/

>>695 I use a 2009 mac mini running slackware. I backup stuff on it with a 1tb FW800 external HDD. It's not optimal but all of it was basically free or laying around my house. It just runs a searx instance and some testing for some web stuff since the setup is nearly identical to my VPSs. If you count backups important, it's important.

>>3840 here's a pic that's not 6MB. monitor and keyboard are only there because it won't boot without it.

I'm putting together a low budget server with used parts but memory is the hangup. I can get 12 cores, mobo, etc. for cheap but 32gb of DDR3 ECC ram is as much as all the other parts combined. I'm seeing prices of about $25 for an 8gb stick, which seems awful high. Any of you lainons able to connect yours truly with a better source than ebay?

>>3993 Yeah I've found that the problem with RAM is people either sell "2GB 240 pin DDR2 800MHz ECC" for really high price or "2GB RAM, no description or picture, yolo" for really low price. In the UK, Cex (webuy.com) is really good with knowing exactly what they are selling without taking the piss on price. I'm not sure if they operate in your country though.

>What do you use it for; NAS, backups? Right now just as a NAS, torrent box, and youtube grabber, but backups would actually be a good idea too. >What kind of hardware/software do you use? Raspi B (bit old, but it works), 1TB HDD, Raspbian Jesse w/ Deluge, youtube-dl, a few other things. >Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Probably the latter, tho it'd be annoying to not have it.

I use it for primarily NAS, but a pfsense build is in the works. As for hardware these are the machines currently in my "rack" Dell R710, Dual L5520 Xeon CPUs, 24 GB ram, few TB in hard drives Catalyst 2950 Switch, full of backdoors, practically antique, I honestly have no use for it. Currently Decommned. HP Proliant DL360 G3, last time booted displayed fan error, I'll either fix or more likely replace with a low power 1U server for pfsense Sun Ultra 1, Dual UltraSparc CPUs, maybe 256mb in ram, One of my prized posessions. Currently awaiting video adpater so I can put it too use. All machines run OpenBSD 6.1 : ) - Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Yes, absolutely.

>>4016 sparc is very comfy and so is your space. If I ever come across a good deal on a sun server I'm definitely going to pick it up. Also interesting to see mouse on the left side of the keyboard, all the lefties I know still use it on the right side.

>>4016 havent seen that windows screen saver in a lonnng time!

> What do you use it for? Uses for my home server include: a media server, a NAS, a seedbox, a webserver, a VPN server, a git server, a DNS server, a proxy and an IRC client. >What kind of hardware/software do you use? Hardware: It is a custom build focused on silence and low electricity consumption. It is built using only consumer gear so nothing too fancy about it. Software: MPD, Samba, sshfs, nginx, tinc vpn, deluge, git, unbound, squid, weechat with relay mode enabled. The OSes used are debian (host) and then using kvm i virtualize the following: OpenBSD (for network related services), 3x Debian for everything else. > Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Everything has ended up relaying on the server one way or another. All my data are saved there, and most of my daily routine involves using the server one way or another.

Orangepi PC running openvpn. :>

> What do you use it for; NAS, backups? dhcp, dns, webserver > What kind of hardware/software do you use? OS: centos7 old notebook: dhcpd and bind9. old desktop pc: libvirt/kvm/qemu. vm1: apache/dokuwiki vm2: apache/nagios vm3: postgresql > Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Yes.

I wish I knew how to get started with home server hosting

> What do you use it for; NAS, backups? NAS for music, photos; backup, caldav/carddav > What kind of hardware/software do you use? Thinkpad running Ubuntu server + Nextcloud > Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? Quite important for my personal computing environment. I did not manage to get Libre Office online to work, though, because it's not that simple if you don't want to use their docker image. Anyone more successful at that?

>>695 >What do you use it for? web server, irc server, seedbox, and backups >What kind of hardware do you use? It's just a R400 I had, 4gb of ram and a 320gb hdd. >What kind of software do you use openbsd (httpd, sshd, acme-client, etc) ddclient ngircd rtorrent >Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? I only talk to friends and family over IRC, and I only watch movies/tv from torrents, so I'm dependent on it, but I could replace it easily if anything ever happened to it.

>>6524 >how to get started with home server hosting. step 0: have a old computer you're comfortable always having on. step 1: get a free domain name http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en step 2: get a free dynamic dns server https://www.namecheap.com/store/domains/freedns/ step 3: install and configure ddclient https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/583/11/how-do-i-configure-ddclient step 4: enable port forwarding in your router, start with 22 80 and 443 step 5: install and configure whatever you want to run core programs: openssh (remote access) https://www.openssh.com/manual.html nginx or httpd (a webserver) https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/getting-started.html https://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html things to consider at a later date: acme (ssl certification) rtorrent + rutorrent (seedbox) git (version control) openvpn (proxy) xmpp, sips, mumble, irc, etc (comms) and whatever else you use day to day except for email, or something dependent on a massive database, think youtube, and to a lesser extent social media if you're into that sort of thing.

>What do you use it for; NAS, backups? Using the RAID functionality of btrfs to do a RAID1 and RAID10 with 2x4TB HDDs and 6x1TB HDDs respectively. I use sftp or samba (for windows boxes) to access the files and openvpn. >What kind of hardware/software do you use? NAS/General purpose server: FX8320, 8GiB RAM, aforementioned drives, 4U rackmount case Firewall: PFSense core2duo, 4GiB, 2x160GiB in ZFS RAID1 NAS uses Arch Linux although I was up until recently using FreeNAS. I switched my entire six disk pool from RAIDZ2 to RAID10 on btrfs. Made my setup much more simple since I can just ssh into it from anywhere instead of using the web interface and be stuck using weird FreeBSD stuffs. >Is it an important part of your computing environment or a hobbyist endeavour? I cannot operate without it.

>>6524 And I wish I could juggle chainsaws :/

>>695 I have two. One at my house and one at my parents house. Both are recycled laptops. Both do mostly the same stuff. Apartment Server - Apple iBook G4 running Debian * I2P router * Seedbox for I2P torrents * Seedbox for public internet torrents, mostly distros and ISOs and zines. * Syncthing master node via I2P ( https://barry.im/post/2017/10/06/syncthing-over-i2p/ ) * gets and displays weather and ocean data for me Parents house server - Asus EEEPC 900 running LXLE * I2P router * Seedbox for I2P torrents * Syncthing master node via I2P ( https://barry.im/post/2017/10/06/syncthing-over-i2p/ ) * Is a node in a meshnet I have set up at the house with two raspberry pis on it. Both pis are set up with OpenCV and webcams to take photos when movement is detected, and then they save their photos to the Syncthing folder, which syncs the photos over the meshnet with the EEEPC, which is connected to the internet via ether and then it syncs the photos with my apartment sever, my regular laptop and my phone. >>7357 Aren't DotTK domains a scam or a MITM thing? If it's just a personal server I don't see why not put it inside I2P or make it into a Tor Hidden service. Then you have anti-NSA-surveillance, extra security and a safe domain built in.