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Yeah! looking forward to firing it up when my DL380 G9 is full and run TrueNas on the Supermicro! (hello electricity bill) Yeah, got a bit too excited. Hahaha. VMs and containers are currently on SSDs. Already have the 5 drives in Z2 and will be using them as mass storage and for backups.

Hi guys! Scored a deal on a supermicro 36-bay v4 server recently. it came with 10x2TB Exos drives. Upon checking, all the drives had a uptime of 3years but with virtually no writes - only 1GB or so each! Going to run some container, VMs, Plex, and Nextcloud on it. Probably safe to assume that the wear primarily is on the rotor, but assuming that the read head is pristine. Would it still be safe to use in my homelab for an extended amount of time or should I be planning in replacing them?

In light of the LastPass breach + Luke mentioning this in the last WAN show, how about a tutorial on how to setup a self-hosted password manager like BitWarden?

Thanks for the insights. I'll probably only use motion detect on 4 cams, and the rest will always be recording so I don't expect heavy CPU utilization. I do have an old 4790k which I was planning to run FreeNAS on, but I guess I'll use that instead. As for the GPU, is this required for a live feed?

Currently using Nextcloud, love it so far. Do implement redundancy and a backup scheme.

Hi guys, I have a requirement where the site needs 25-30 cameras installed. Cameras will be recording at 2MP at 10FPS with H265 encoding, will be configured to write directly to disk, and will handle the overlays. As the CPU won't be doing any decoding, should a Kabylake Celeron with 2C/2T be enough? Also, I'm planning to install 4 hard drives, each storing 1 zone.

This is what I thought. Except for viewing maybe.

QuickSync counts, right? Encoding + GPU... I'm guessing a 1050 won't be enough since i have at least 12 streams?

Hello! I'm planning on building a small server with TrueNAS as the host with pfsense VM, and Home Assistant, Unifi controller containers. Initially setup: Storage: 2x 2TB HDD in JBOD or ZFS1 Home Assistant will function as a DVR with 12 IP CCTV's with 1080 20fps H265+ streams. Possible upgrade: RAM: 16GB - is this overkill? Unifi Controller to manage around 6 Unifi AC Mesh's pfsense will only serve DHCP and routing. Regular clients will be around 30-40, while 150 at max. Will probably setup 2 VLANS - 1 for CCTVs, another for WiFi. Feels like a little bit to much for a lowly 2c/2t chip. If this isn't enough, should a G4560 2c/4t work?

Remember: Nothing is free. It takes resources to produce content. LMG has to compensate their staff for producing the videos. While yes, they have other sources of income now, this wasn't the case early on. Pretty sure they relied on 100% on ad revenue when they didn't have merch or sponsor ships yet. Wait, isn't that still applicable today for small channels?? I agree with the last WAN show where they say lets just give it another word. People are so butt-hurt offended being called pirates - you get something and don't like the price, so you don't pay it, in this case a 5 second add. Isn't that being pirate? But FIINNEEE, lets call it "people who don't pay". We'll, idk. I don't see "see" ads anyway. Those sponsorships and integrated ads really work tho. Got me to signup for Pulseway. I can still remember TunnelBear's animations and the WAN ad for Squarespace Linus: "Squarespace!" Luke: "Build it beautiful"

i'm using the ubuntu user account. Is the default plex user the account I used to sign into plex server? /data isn't in the first screenshot. but yeah, I figured I should place it in /mnt. Also, I'll be using a SMB share instead

Hello! Sooo my Ubuntu (w/ gui) based Plex server crashed for some reason, and I want to rebuild it on Ubuntu Server for educational purposes. The VM is hosted on HyperV and the media is stored on a Storage Spaces virtual volume. Plex has been installed and I can access the Web GUI already on another PC. The drive has been passed through to the VM and has been configured to mount automatically, but can't seem to find it in the web gui. The permissions set find /data -type d -exec chmod -c 755 {} ";" find /data -type f -exec chmod -c 644 {} ";" I can't find the data in the web gui Hoping you guys can help me! Thanks

SMTP relay providers usually have alternate ports. Just look up with ports they use. Do note that this if for outbound mail only. I haven't tried inbound relays as I used Azure. I suggest you do a POC first with an open source mail server, like iRedMail, to check if inbound port 25 is open. Exchange Server is a real pain to install and setup. It'll be a huge waste of time if you went through hours of configuration just to find out you're unable to receive email. While writing this, I thought "why didn't I look up inbound SMTP relays". After a quick G search, I found Email Store/Forward | Inbound SMTP Relay | Email Reflector | Email Service (dynu.com). Not sure how good their service is though. A few things though 1. Outlook Online and Exchange Server's code base has been separated for a few years now, this means that Exchange Server is unlikely to receive feature updates. If this matters to you 2. While setting up my Exchange Server, I realized the hassle of running a mail server on my own - disaster recovery, redundancy, automated backups, WAN failover, to name a few, are too much trouble. I ended up signing up with Zoho Mail. <Disclaimer: I'm a Zoho Workplace reseller>. Their free tier allows custom emails for upto 5 users @ 5GB per user. If you need more than 5 users, upgrading only costs 1USD/user/month and gives you 10GB of storage. 3. You said you'll have another internet line coming in, will it also have a static IP? If so, you'll have to have DNS failover that automagically switches the target IP should the primary go down. While writing #3, it occurred to me that DDNS might work with the IP switching problem. Gonna try this out when i have time.

I'm late to the party. Most issues were answered by Sir Asvld. However, I'd like to add a few more: 1. Most cloud providers block port 25 outgoing. From what i've read, if you're on AWS, just contact support and they'll open it for you. If you're on Azure, (i've done this) outbound port 25 is for an "upper tier plan" thats available for big companies. Inbound is goods tho. You'll have to use an SMTP relay service - I tried SocketLabs. They have developer tier that does SMTP relay that does 2000 emails per month for free. SendGrid is another option, much cheaper too! Tho, I haven't tried trier SMTP relay service yet. 2. Yeah, Exchange Server is expensive. at least 1k USD. Then you'll have to purchase a CAL license PER user. 3.Not sure if Exchange will play nicely .local, but it should(?) work. You'll need a proper domain anyway in-order to send mail. AFAIK, the major mail providers reject email from domains that aren't configured properly. Which leads us to #4 4. DKIM, SFP DMARC DNS records. Remember to configure these in the DNS records control panel. To put it simply, the 3 records tell external mail servers that email with @yourdomain. from IP "x.x.x.x" are legit, and prevent spoofing and phishing attacks.

Running Win Server, even virtualized, requires a license. You're better off getting WS Standard, which will allow you to run 2 virtualized WS instances than going with Linux -> WS. What will you being running on it anyway? You *could* purchase a WS key from ebay or reddit. Lots of cheap listings over there. Bought mine from reddit a few months back actually, and no problems so far. But if you want everything to be legit and paying for a WS license is a no, you could go with Win10 , disable telemetry and all the bloatware, and it should technically run like WS, assuming you're just gonna use it to run the application.