It's a start.

[GabeThePCHelper]

I have a dual socket LGA2011 board, with two Xeons. 

 

How well could I run a game server, website, or a NAS setup?

 

What OS should I use for this? I'm a bit of a noob but I have a lot of interest in servers and networking and such.

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, GabeThePCHelper said:

How well could I run a game server, website, or a NAS setup?

 

What OS should I use for this? I'm a bit of a noob but I have a lot of interest in servers and networking and such.

do you..... know anything about game servers , websites , or nas to start with?

 

[FlappyBoobs]

You can run a NAS or Website using a RasberryPi, and not even the latest one, one of the originals. 

 

You need to tell us what specs you have and what you intend to do with it before you can have a relevant answer. 

[GabeThePCHelper]

31 minutes ago, Alexsolo said:

FreeNAS is an open source NAS operating system. https://freenas.org

With which you can make  a media storage server, backup of data, you can also use it to download torrents.

 

I wouldn't recommend this, use a professional platform like wix or squarespace since they have the dedicated power and networking capabilities for this sort of thing.

 

What kind of games? Minecraft, for example, is easy to setup in this kind of environment!

I was thinking Minecraft, Unturned, or other rather simple games to set up servers for. 

46 minutes ago, FlappyBoobs said:

You can run a NAS or Website using a RasberryPi, and not even the latest one, one of the originals. 

 

You need to tell us what specs you have and what you intend to do with it before you can have a relevant answer. 

Here is the specs list. I have it saved on a google doc.

2x Intel Xeon E5-4620. 

(8c/16th)

4x8GB ECC Registered 1333MHZ Server Memory

The board had gotten deleted from it, but these are the two main specs.

I have a small 1GB Galaxy GPU in the system. I just was thinking for the time being it would serve as a display output.

 

[Mdgtman91]

If you are familiar with virtualization stuff, you could install XenServer and then you could have your one server to many things. 

Its not all that complicated to set up but gives you the freedom to try out all of your server ideas.

Heck you can make a vm for each game server and turn them on and off as needed.

[GabeThePCHelper]

2 minutes ago, Mdgtman91 said:

If you are familiar with virtualization stuff, you could install XenServer and then you could have your one server to many things. 

Its not all that complicated to set up but gives you the freedom to try out all of your server ideas.

Heck you can make a vm for each game server and turn them on and off as needed.

Sounds like a good idea, i'll have to try it out sometime