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musicbreaker

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  1. Hello guys, I haven’t been active in forums much, but now wanna use this as a way of looking for advice. Please excuse any noob-ish mistakes. initial situation: - 3 users in 3 different locations .... that’s why web access will be a major factor - my connection (where the server will be located) : 500mbit/s down - 50mbit/s up - other users: about 100mbit/s down - 10-20mbit/s up - every user should be able to upload images which preferably can be organized in some kind of program and can also all be accessed by everyone - every user should also be able to use the server as a backup for different PCs (both Windows and Mac) and use it as general file sharing - I do have experience in building desktop PCs and have a generally good knowledge of hardware - I don’t have old hardware laying around to reuse - budget preferably around the 500€ range or less, but possibly more if necessary and worth it - noise and power efficiency are a concern Questions: Self build or get something pre build like a Synology “xyz” I’m thinking self build can save me money, it’ll be fun cause I like tech and it can be adapted to my purpose better and can be expanded better. - is what I am looking for possible to achieve? - How much storage would make sense? For how much more does one plan? - what about zfs and raid? - I know raid isn’t a backup, so how would I realize a backup for the server data itsself? Or rather when is another level of backup necessary? - what kind of OS would be used? I heard of plenty of options like freenas, Ubuntu, windows server, unraid...... Do different OSs affect power consumption and CPU requirements significantly or all the all kinda equal? - How does one choose/decide on an OS? - server or consumer hardware? I’ve a lot more knowledge of consumer hardware and would kinda prefer that because of that I guess. But tell me otherwise if beneficial. - how much CPU power is necessary? Since I read in multiple threads, that once you have a server one will keep adding features and use it more and more for different applications I don’t wanna limit the future usability by getting a too weak CPU. From what I can gather something along the lines of a quad core should suffice!? - how much ram does a server need for my basics tasks? what would be future proof? How does one estimate the ram needs of a server in general? - do I need a gpu/apu? Or rather how do the GUIs of the different OSs work? - Do I need to worry about security when thinking about web access and so on? - the connection of the users and me are sufficient once the biggest chunks of data have been loaded onto the server from what I can tell. Incremental PC backups should and occasional photo uploads shouldn’t be too slow. - read and write speeds won’t need to be top of the line, since over the web the connections petty much cap out around 6,25 mb/s right? so I would only need to consider my local network speed which is 1 Gbit/s if any I guess. - when does an ssd cache make sense? - I read a lot about VMs. What can be VMs be used for? When does using one make sense? How much more CPU and RAM would implementing VMs require? - what other server applications are most common and useful for private use? Sorry for the wall of text. I thought about this topic for quite a while now and also read many different threads. I hope my questions are clear and make sense. I’d be very grateful for any advice and tips I can get. Thanks a lot to everyone in advance! musicbreaker
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