mymouthandi

I currently have 3 servers running an a Synology NAS as well as a couple of R-Pi 4’s all doing various bits. The 3 servers consist of 2 Dell Optiplex 7030’s each with 4-core Haswell CPU, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD and run proxmox. The 3rd is running an 4-core Xeon on an Asrock E3C224DI with 16GB ECC, 64GB and 500GB SSDs, and 4x4 WD Reds in Raid 5, running Ubuntu, housed in an InWin MS04. This is my ‘proper’ server. This summer it has been getting a bit toasty and has a very annoying beep to let me know that. The Dell’s run a few VM’s for haproxy, wordpress, and a couple testing machines. The ‘proper’ server runs Nextcloud, MariaDB for nextcloud and wordpress, and Plex. No VM’s or docker. It used to run home assistant before I move that to a dedicated Pi 4. The Synology is a DS416Play with 4x6TB Ironwolf drives and also runs plex. It’s used for backups and since DSM7 it’s also now my main photos app. One of the Pi’s is just for home assistant, as metnions, and the other runs tvheadend, pi-hole (currently not in use), and an internet monitoring stack (GitHub - geerlingguy/internet-monitoring: Monitor your network and internet speed with Docker &). I reckon I can get more use out of this as well. Everything except my router and pi-hole pi resides in my loft office and use powerline for internal networking. The router and pi and in the living room on the ground floor. I will be running a cable on the outside of the house soon, however. Now, on top of all of that I also have 2 Ryzen 2700’s, 2 B450 Aorus M boards, 64GB RAM (2 2x16GB kits), 2x500GB WD Blue SSDs, 2x1TB WD Blue SSDs, 3x4TB WD reds, 2x1TB WD Blue HDDs, 8TB external ready to be shucked, 5960X and X99 Asus ATX motherboard, 2x 4port gigabit nics and various other bits. There are a few cases and power supplies as well. It’s all just a bit bonkers really. Oh, and I've also got a bunch of Pi 3's as well. The important bits are what I want to host, and that’s as follows: Nextcloud Plex (video and music streaming) Minecraft server Home assistant Wordpress (fronted by haproxy) and Ghost pi-hole tvheadend There is likely more to be added to that list as time goes on, but that’s as it stands for now. With all that information I’m looking for suggestions on better ways to run the services and how I can consolidate down the hardware. The Dells and ‘proper’ server were my initial plan here, but with all the extra hardware I think I can do a lot better. I’ve picked everything up pretty cheaply over time so I wouldn’t lose much shifting it all on if that’s the best option to fund a better solution. I live in the UK so used enterprise gear isn’t as cheap or easy to get hold of as the US.

I think it's the obvious choice now after recent updates.

I have enough drives (8x2TB, 3x4TB) and hardware to get on this list, I just need to build something.

In comparison to other ISPs here in the UK, Virgin Media are pretty good. However, it's a best of a bad bunch situation. Their customer service is appauling, their reliability is poor and their cable coverage is bizarre and patchy, even in London (part of the reason for the new investment). For example, the company I work for is moving to a bigger office just down the road and the new building appears to be the only building in the area that Virgin don't run cable to. We have also had multiple outages in the last year or so, sometimes for a few hours, sometimes for full days and their customer service has been crap during these periods, sometimes outright denying any problems. On the positive side, fast internet for not a lot of money and they don't appear to throttle (though hard to tell on a 150mb connection) so when it works it's good. No other ISP matches the speed for the price, not even close.

Those specs look good to me. As many others have said, 5" 1080p screen is plenty big enough with plenty of pixels. DDR4 would be very beneficial for battery life and a higher MP camera won't go amiss. The sensor will need to be pretty good, though. Hopefully the rumours will be true.

Stick this on a cheap dev board like the rasp pi and it could be interesting.

I'm pretty gutted about this. I have a normal K70 with blues and it's awesome. I like browns too but blues are just so nice to type on all day.

I like those a lot, especially the high storage one. Sadly 2.5" drives just don't have higher enough capacity. Can't even get 3TB drives yet so it's a bit limiting. Still, they are hot swap bays so it's pretty cool nonetheless.

I could do software raid initially. It's going to start off as a back up server, so if the motherboard fails or something happens that stops me rebuilding the array it shouldn't matter. There won't be anything critical on the server. I have been looking at some second-hand enterprise raid controllers on ebay. Something like a Dell PERC would be nice. They seem pretty cheap.

I have all the other parts to build a server (minus a raid card) so I really do just need the disks.

I have 3TB in my main rig, 3TB in my NAS, a 3TB external drive, 1TB portable external drive and 1TB in my laptop. If only I could fit it all in to one machine to get me on the list. A couple of 3 or 4TB drives and I'll be there.

Pretty good for £20! This would be a nice case for a first time modder I reckon. Cut out a side window, cut out the top for a rad/AIO cooler and a few other things.

K65 RGB? Yes please!

IT'S STILL ALIVE??? Well, this is a little sad. Goodbye MSN messenger.

I really hope AMD have got something special hidden away. I want some decent competition in the CPU market again.