harveylong26

For our work server, we use FreeNAS which is great! For my personal home media server, I use OpenMediaVault which again is pretty good too. For PLEX, OMV works pretty well. It has all the plugins right out the box and the WebUI is pretty easy to get your head around. It's based on Debian too which is a pretty easy OS to get used to, whereas FreeNAS is FreeBSD.

I've used PIA before, they kept limiting my bandwidth and I'd only get 10mbps tops on any server. It sucks because I would've stayed with them otherwise.

Yeah that makes sense, glad you sussed that out for me So would it be worth getting a cheap and cheerful VPN service? I used to use IntroVPN because they were pretty cheap, and if that's my only option then I don't mind paying for it again.

Well, the only real reason would be to hide my traffic from my ISP. Sorry, from the way I've explained is a bit stupid. Like if I'm just connected to my router, on the internet I want my traffic to be hidden/encrypted so that my ISP can't see what I'm doing. I setup a VPN using the Pi thinking it would mask/change my IP from my computer but it doesn't, its the same public IP as if I was just connected normally. So, I'd like to be able to have a different public IP when connected to the internet from within my home. From my understanding, this VPN server I have setup doesn't encrypt traffic when I'm connected to it on my local network, so when I am online my traffic is still visible but however when I am out and about and I log in to a Free WiFi Hotspot and connect to my VPN my traffic becomes encrypted.

I wouldn't mind about being limited to 100mbps because that is my current internet speed. How would I go about setting up a VLAN?

I had an old Pi 2 laying around so I turned it into a personal VPN server for me and a couple friends to use. I know it works on a basis where traffic is encrypted however it's only encrypted outside of your local network. I was just wondering if anyones found a way to encrypt your local traffic as well as unblocking certain sites like P2P sharing sites or just sites which arent allowed in my country. I setup the server using this tool. Pretty handy really + easy setup.

I imagine with a name like CODBoy you think signing up for things gives you viruses To put it nicely, so such thing exists. If you have any sort of knowledge you can buy a Raspberry Pi and setup a person VPN server, however, this doesn't mask your local internet activity, just data outside of your network.

Veeams was horrible, FreeFileSync is honestly perfect for me as it does live file sync and archive backups and it's pretty configurable. Cheers for the suggestion though

We mostly just need file backups, my Boss' computer has so many drives it would fill up the server in seconds if I did full system backups. I keep a recovery disk on hand just in case something is to happen. And freefilesync, I know it's called that I just never found the sync function. I'll have another fiddle with it and see what I can come up with. Cheers!

I work for a small family run business and I recently persuaded my boss to buy a proper NAS for our backups. Before he was making CD, USB and External backups but this wasn't a good solution especially with 5+ machines all needing to be backed up. We purchase an HP Microserver Gen 8 from eBuyer as it was a good deal, especially with the £70 rebate. I set it all up using FreeNAS and it has 4TB of storage (1x3TB + 1x1TB) I am currently using some software called Bvckup to backup directories to our server, it monitors the files and the moment a change is detected it automatically uploads it to the NAS. Is this a good way to perform backups? Or is there a better way with some other software which will work 10x better. I preferably want the software to be free/open source as we don't want to have to spend lots of £££ on backup software, however, if there is a paid software package please still suggest it.

I have an Asus R7 250, it's about 2 years old now but the other day I was doing college work when my screen went black with a spinning cursor and it didn't do anything for about an hour or so, so I rebooted my PC. When I turned it back on, it just displayed a black screen with a cursor spinning, again I left it for an hour or so before I turned off the machine and removed it from my PC entirely. After I rebooted, everything was fine again so I did a fresh start, keeping personal files on Windows 10 and turned it back on. However, it's continuing to do a black screen when I re-connect my GPU back to my PC. Any ideas as to what could be going on? I'm currently just using integrated graphics for the meantime but I was going to sell my GPU to someone but now I may fear that it's broken

I purchased an old Dell Optiplex 755 a couple months ago and did a Xeon swap and turned it into a PLEX Server. I also was given an older PC by my uncle with a CRT monitor and stripped it down just to rebuild it. I like seeing how older tech has advanced compared to newer tech.

One last question: How long do you think this laptop would last me before I need to upgrade again and can it replace my desktop (check my sig)

Now THAT is exactly what I'm looking for. Sucks that is is a little bit higher in price but I think I can work with it.

Which laptop do you use?