Building First Server Questions.

[Ancestral]

Hey everyone,

 

I'm looking at building a home server and I'm pretty lost at what I actually should be looking at for what I want it to do. I'm looking for it to run a local apache server for multiple computers in the house and light storage backups.

 

I have an old i5-4690k  sitting around doing nothing with lots of ram, is it worth re-using that chip for the server or buy server grade equipment?

 

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[cyrryanc]

I would start off with any hardware you already have. Gain some knowledge and expand from there. My first "server" was a core2duo with a gig of ram and a couple random hard drives I had. Now i have a couple IBM x3650 M3's and a server I build from mostly old consumer parts. Expand to your needs.

[karsnoordhuis]

3 hours ago, cyrryanc said:

I would start off with any hardware you already have.

i agree, that i5 of yours is probably faster than my main rig so it should be plenty fast enough for a simple apache server and some storage.

money making servers or mission critical machines tend to have ecc memory but in your case configuring your storage propperly so you dont loose all your data when a drive dies is way more important.

[Salacious B Crum]

On 12/10/2019 at 10:49 AM, Ancestral said:

Hey everyone,

 

I'm looking at building a home server and I'm pretty lost at what I actually should be looking at for what I want it to do. I'm looking for it to run a local apache server for multiple computers in the house and light storage backups.

 

I have an old i5-4690k  sitting around doing nothing with lots of ram, is it worth re-using that chip for the server or buy server grade equipment?

 

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Very doable and much better option for light loads over an enterprise server, I have both but my home built rig is around my old pre built I7 6700 and it rocks I have not thrown anything at it that it could not handle currently running unRAID with 28TB of storage, running plex, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, jacket and Hassio to list a few