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Just adding to this, if using Linux, you might wanna look into Docker as the virtualization overhead is pretty minimal and lightweight.

Since this is a sticky, and there seems to be a general difficulty when setting up OpenVPN servers (as some have said, don't use PPTP), take a look on this free OpenVPN management panel: https://pritunl.com/ It's free, really easy to setup and supports, 2-factor authentication, tons of configurations, everything handled from the web GUI.

I also run all the things you've listed on my setup, plus a few more things. One thing that I'm enjoying is, I've got a cPanel developer license, which you don't have to pay a monthly fee to use, and installed it on a VM on my NAS. I do web development and it's been really nice to be able to mount all of my websites locally and basically move all of my development stack from my local PC over to my NAS. I can load and work on my projects from any computer in the house and when I'm out I just login on my VPN to have access to everything like I was at home. Git version control also works surprisingly well. You might say one could setup a normal web stack on CentOS or Debian but cPanel is really a turnkey solution that has pretty much everything I need, also moving simple projects from local to production is super easy as most hosts are cPanel based. If you want to setup your own VPN server, I'd recommend https://pritunl.com/ , it's free and it's really easy to use and setup your own OpenVPN servers with tons of configuration options. I've basically got Pritunl running on 4 low-end VMs across 3 continents now so I don't need to rely on any 3rd party provider, I can easily give access to the VPN to my friends, connect home from anywhere, run Plex from the outside without having to publicly open a port on my router. I've also got my CCTV system recording footage straight into my NAS. Since my cameras are network accessible, when I'm out I can connect to my home's VPN and view every camera's live feed from my CCTV app without having to expose any port publically to the internet either. I've got Verizon FiOS 100/100Mbps so my IP is dynamic. I just use https://freedns.afraid.org to keep up with the IP changing, it's free and I've never had any problems. Another pro of having a VPN server at home is that I can enable RDP on all my computers, setup firewall rules to only allow connections from the local network, so now I can ditch TeamViewer and just use Window's RDP to remote access any computer I need from the outside. I've also used SteamLink from a hotel room while connected to my VPN and I was surprised at how well it worked. Every once in a while I think of new applications for my home server, very happy with it

This is a question regarding general SSD 10Gbit, beefy NAS setups in general. Currently, I have a NAS setup running off spinnable disks with 2 mirrored SDD for caching, on 1GBit network, running UnRAID. I know UnRAID is uncomparable with ZFS regarding speeds, but even when I'm compressing/uncompressing zip/rar files from my SSD share over the network, it is painfully slow. The thing is, it doesn't seem like my network is the problem here because, on Task Manager, WinRAR doesn't go over 30ish Mbps when uncompressing stuff. So that got me wondering, do the folks down in LTT have this same problem on their beefy NAS? CPU doesn't seem to be the problem, network doesn't seem to be the problem either, so that got me thinking maybe UnRAID's parity is the real bottleneck. But then when I SSH into my NAS and just uncompress stuff from the CLI, it does it super fast. So is Samba the problem? If it is, then even the beefiest of the beefy NAS setups would crawl when doing this kind of stuff. Any thoughts on this?

I have an r410 at home. I run a VPN server on it so I can access my home network from outside. I'm concerned about S.J.Res. 34 (it sucks and it might just pass). I want to run my router as a VPN client connected to a VPN outside so it encrypts my entire home network's traffic. Since everything will be behind the VPN on my router, how would I connect to the VPN server in my network? Would I have to run my own VPN server outside, instead of just using a VPN company like PIA? Sorry if it's an obvious question, I'm just a bit confused about this concept.

Gotcha. I disabled Avast and it's still happening I didn't want to format my PC because I have 3+ years worth of stuff installed on it but it's looking like it's going to be the only way

AHCI is enabled. Should I disable it? "First of all, please don't color your font white, black, or any variant of grey or dark blue. People using the dark theme cannot read it." Sorry I just copied the text from a post I did to Reddit but had no replies. I only use Avast free antivirus. Thanks for the suggestion, I will disable it and see if it changes anything.

The same thing happens if I use Firefox or Edge. Or even when I'm saving stuff from other programs, for example if I save a file from Skype or a .psd from Photoshop.

SSD looks healthy. No smart errors

This is better explained with video: This happens whenever I'm saving a file, be it an image on Photoshop, or a download on Chrome. My computer just hangs and I can't do anything while it's saving, and it takes quite a few seconds to save the files. It doesn't matter if it's a small or large file, or if I save stuff to my SSD or to my HHD. It's been happening for a while, everything is updated, I'm not sure of what to do to fix this I also have problems making/renaming folders. If I make a new folder, nothing happens. I have to refresh the folder I'm currently at for the "New Folder" folder to show up. This often also happens when I'm trying to rename files. On Power Options, my "Turn off hard disk after" setting is set to - minutes (never). Error Checking on my C drive (SSD) returned no errors. Does anyone have any idea of what might be going on?

Hey guys, need a little help here. I have two wifi routers in my house. A Verizon FiOS G-1100, and a Netgear R6300. I've installed OpenWRT on the R6300, and setup a wireless bridge between the two routers, but their signals are too far apart and it didn't work well. So I ran an 100ft cat5e cable from the R6300 through my basement. The white/amber cat5e goes from my Verizon ONT/modem to the Verizon wifi router upstairs. The blue cat5e is the cable coming from the R6300. Ideally I would connect the blue cable to a LAN port on the Verizon router, but I don't want to make more holes in my wall and floor. Instead, if I get a switch and connect the ONT, and both routers to it, would I be able to have them in the same network with internet access? Thanks

Thanks for the replies guys. Sorry I mixed up refresh rate with response time! The first monitor I bought on ebay had dead pixels a few weeks later so I'm trying to avoid ebay On a retailer I could at least return the monitor. I've never seen a VA panel before, I'll look up the HP Omen, thanks. Edit: Rip me. The HP Omen was at $309 THIS MORNING and now the deal is gone

Hey guys, this monitor is $100 off on BestBuy. I really dig it but I can't find anything about it on the internet. Not unboxing, no videos, nothing. Does anyone have this panel? I was actually looking for an IPS panel, I've always had TN panels and I love the crisp image of IPS panels. Would this WVA panel be a turn off? Also the refresh rate is 7ms. I play mostly AAA games, I also play csgo and overwatch occasionally with friends but nothing hella competitive. I have a 1070 SC. What do you guys think of this monitor? Should I go for anything else for this price range? 27" is good.

I just realised the AOC is a TN panel. I'm looking for a IPS panel monitor so I'll have to cross that one out

Tight budget

How much did you pay for it? I google it and it looks like it's on the $450+ mark. My budget is about $350

Hi guys, I'm looking for a 1440p IPS monitor for my 1070. I have some credit on BestBuy, so I did this search: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?cp=1&searchType=search&st=monitor&_dyncharset=UTF-8&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&nrp=&sp=%2Bcurrentprice%20skuidsaas&list=n&af=true&iht=y&usc=All%20Categories&ks=960&keys=keys&qp=nativeresolutionsv_facet%3DNative%20Resolution~2560%20x%201440 My choices are: BenQ - BL series BL2420PT 24" IPS LED HD Monitor - Black/Non-glossy black ($249) Asus - 23.8" IPS LED HD Monitor - Black ($252.99) Acer - 25" IPS LED HD Monitor - Black (254.99) AOC - 27" Quad HD Monitor - Black ($299) These are all < $300. I currently have a Samsung 1080p 27" monitor. I don't know how the jump from a 27" to a 23.8" is gonna fell. I guess going from 27" to 25" would be fine. Are any of these monitors a good pick? I know that Asus and Acer are quite good budget brands, BenQ and AOC are really budget, but I don't know enough about these brands. Would I get much more if I just go for a $319.99 Asus - 25" IPS LED HD Monitor - Black, Space gray? Since my video card is Nvidia, freesync doesn't matter to me. Gsync is too expensive for now, I just got an i7 6700k and an Asus Z170-ar so my budget isn't much now. Any recommendations? Thanks

Alright boys, I'm almost giving up on this Optiplex The lack of ECC memory worries me, and the comment by @ultimatemythbuster above helped lol. I don't want to have 6TB of offsite backups all the time (that would be $60/month on Amazon Glacier, or a $240 6TB drive). I also have an old server though. It's a Supermicro X7DCA-L, with 2x Xeon L5420 Quad Core 2.5 GHz, 8GB DDR2 ECC. It's old and it's DDR2, but at least it's registered. I don't have a rack to mount it, but that's ok. (just saw a nice 2U vertical rack mount for $50) The downside is power consumption. From the net, I see it needs 2amps of power in average, that would be 172kWh per month, which imo is a lot. I'm thinking about taking one of the 2 Intel L5420 out. For a normal NAS with some Plex transcoding, is a single L5420 2.5Ghz enough to do the job?

Thanks for the replies guys. Yea raid10 and raidz2 would give me better failure tolerance than raidz/raid5, but this won't help me in case of corruption at all, because I'm not using ECC memory (is this right?). This is my main concern. I've never had two RED drives fail at the same time, though there's still a possibility, so I think we could take offsite backups. Raid10/raidz2 still means that only 1 drive can fail though, just like raid5/raidz. Please correct me if I'm wrong?

Double posted, sorry!

You can get a DDOS protected IP from a provider like buyvm, and route/tunnel that protected IP over to your home IP. This will need some sysadmin knowledge to setup though, but many gameservers do this. Only BuyVM knows your Home IP, and you will give players the DDOS protected IP. You'll still need to spend about $10/month for this. Also keep in mind that it will add a little bit of latency, but if you live close to their locations, latency increase will be only 20ms max.

I know that ZFS is not only for redundancy, but also for data integrity, but I see many people saying that without ECC memory, I can get my whole system corrupted as regular memory will just let any error pass by. I don't know the chances for this to happen though. It's not a huge NAS setup, but we're going to be storing college work, design and software work, stuff that we cannot lose =( Are you saying that ECC is not necessary for small arrays? (3 HDDs)

Hi guys, Me and 2 friends run a small software firm at home and I'd like to setup a NAS for us to keep our work and entertainment files. I've bought 3x3TB WD Red hard drives, and we have an old Dell Optiplex (Core2Duo, 8GB DDR2) that I'd like to recycle for this. Now this computer doesn't have ECC memory support, so using FreeNAS + NFS makes me a bit anxious as we can't lose the data. I was thinking of having the 3 HDDs in a RAID5 setup so we'd have ~6TB of usable storage. Everyone I see using FreeNAS goes for ZFS, is ZFS so crucial? The box won't be transcoding or streaming, just a plain NAS storage attached to Macs, Windows and Linux boxes, and nightly backups being done every night. I've heard of unRaid on LTT videos and how much they love it. I'd rather use something open source, but I don't know how FreeNAS and unRaid differ when not using ZFS. Should I go for FreeNAS + no ZFS, or unRAID [$59 =( ]?