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Will you be using a physical server for each of the tasks you want to do? Will you buy one very powerful server and run virtual machines for each task? What exactly do you want from these servers? I seen you said "for movies and storage and many other things website hosting" For the "storage and website hosting" there will not be much power required for that assuming it basic web pages and not video steaming. For the "Movies" do you want them to just be stored there and download-able or do you want to be able to stream them? What Res and encoding will these movies use if for streaming? will there be any on the fly trans-coding? If all you want is a basic server that will host basic websites, movies that can only be downloaded and for it to act as a NAS, I highly recommend you just build a low power, low noise pc and make virtual machines for each job. Apache for your websites. Freenas, nas4u whatever you want to pick for the Storage and storage of movies. If you decide you want to do streaming and more intensive tasks then I recommend you build a pretty high end desktop and again run virtual machines for each task or buy a 2nd hand Server for e.g This HP DL360 and run virtual machines on it to do each job. I know that is all pretty off "topic" shall we say but the point I am trying to make is that you don't really need a rack of servers for what you have asked to be able to do all you need is one good server that you can then run virtual machines on.

Router setup: http://www.draytek.co.uk/archive/vpn_setup.html Follow the guide for "London" as that is vpn that is being called to. Basically you want to set up for dial in not dial out as this router is not connecting to another vpn it is the vpn you want to call into. You also want to set up Remote Network ip as the Network address of the LAN you are on it looks like by the pictures you have provided that would be 192.168.1.0 I also don't think by looking at the guide that you need the specify remote vpn gateway set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Device Setup: Then to set your Windows pc on a different network to go to it you would set up a new vpn as standard and use the ip address your ISP assigns you and use the user name and password you have specified in the set up. Edit: it is also very important that your remote pcs ip address is not in the same network as your VPN otherwise it will not work. For e.g LAN @Home ip addressing Network: 192.168.0.0 LAN @Work PC Network: 10.10.10.0 That is acceptable as they use two different networks. So your work pc can not have a ip address of 192.168.0.1-255 it has to be a different network.

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How is this not relevant you said to him to setup DHCP on a switch which he can't do unless it is a layer 3 switch and even then most if not all of them still don't have dhcp services, the ones that do are business grade switches for e.g juniper switches or cisco switches. Link to your source of any home/personal use switch that has a DHCP service built in? If you want proof of it having to be a layer 3 switch open Packet tracer and try set up DHCP on a 2960-24TT and it will work then try doing the same on a 2950-24 and it wont work it wont even recognize the commands.

The Switch he has linked is not a layer 3 switch(Ip address forwarding) and does not support Ip address forwarding, it is a traditional layer 2 Switch(Mac address forwarding) therefor he will need a separate DHCP server or for it to be handled by his router. Even if he did have a layer 3 switch most do not support being a DHCP server and would still have to be handled else where.

There are 2 different types of switches in the industry, A Layer 2 switch and a Layer 3 Switch, you will be using a Layer 2 switch from what I can tell from the Switch you linked. If you are using a layer 2 switch and you already have a dhcp server running on your router/modem wherever then adding a switch will not affect you in any kind of way as Layer 2 Switches use mac addresses to send and receive data. So this is what I am picturing for you. The dhcp will most likely be handled already by your Router that your Internet service provider gives you, which will then assign Ip addresses automatically to all the pcs on the network. The Router that you have will receive a packet from the internet for whatever ip address the Minecraft server is. Then it will look in its routing table see that the ip address belongs to the server, it will then forward this to the switch which will then forward it to the server. Results would be similar if you used a hub but instead of the hub sending it to only the server the hub would send the data to everyone on the network and not care where it goes which can be a security threat and cause congestion on the network.

Hi, I just wanted to find out your guys thoughts on a minimum living wage rather than a minimum working wage. A few companies in the u.k have started adopting the living wage as well as councils and goverment etc. http://www.livingwage.org.uk/

Wish the upload was a bit faster but can't complain definitely isn't the worst in the world!

Thanks for the reply, sadly these look hard to come by in the U.k and would have to be imported via ebay which as stated else where I don't really like using due to not really being able to get track on my deliveries.

I just checked them out and was watching a review of them compared to the SP120s performance edition and they weren't that much hotter and were quieter so these are most likely now going to be the ones I buy as they are the cheapest I can find. Thanks for the help again!

Again thanks for your help, I think it will be between the Corsair ones and the Noiseblockers, I am just searching around for now to see which ones I can get cheapest, where from and the performance differences.

Thanks for the advice, I really do like the price of these fans and would love to get them but sadly I can only find them in blue and green, while the rest of my build is all red and black, I would happily throw white fans in there but they don't do them, I know its being really picky as I will rarely see the inside of my case but its enough to put me off. Thanks anyway for the help.

As previously said I am not a noise freak and don't mind them being loud, I have a fridge freezer in my room so I doubt most fans will be louder than that! How ever I do like the price and look of the Noiseblockers and BitFenix Spectres and Spectres pro, so these will be considered at the time of buying. I couldn't find much for the BeQuiet! fans apart from on ebay but I don't really like buying from there as most the time I don't get tracking.

Hi thanks for the advice, I am really liking the look of the gelid solutions fans as they are good looking and well priced, do you have any recommendations of what models to use for the case and which to use for the radiators?

Please don't just say corsair fans are overrated please give an explanation as why and what is a better product in the same price range and performance range as this would really help me as I wouldn't mind spending a little extra for a better product (£5 or so more) The noctuas are over £10 more than the Corsair fans and considering I am buying 7 fans that price starts to add up and become a lot of money.