server Build Planning for Server

[Furball159.]

1 hour ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

if you need the pikvm then go ahead and buy a real server board instead for the same or less money with real ipmi, a shit ton of i/o + cpu cores, and top that off with boatloads of cheap ecc ddr4 + reliability

Found this
https://wisp.net.au/asrock-rack-paul-low-profile-pcie-ipmi-card.html?srsltid=AfmBOooNJXmXSkCoYAzituIhXoUG3KeZ_sOWgKZc2WY_jJ5tgdqqfP8cMmc

Seems cheap and has good reviews and reputiable brand name says its compatiable too. Should do everything i need for cheaper and more enterpise ish.

Although the power button situation is confusing me

[Biggest Michael]

I pretty much run everything your asking for and have had zero issues with my setup and would save you quite a lot (minus the large storage drives)!

My server consists of:

AMD Ryzen 5 5600G

MSI X470 Gaming Plus Max

TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600

MSI SPATIUM M450 1 TB NVMe

Seagate Barracuda Compute 2TB SATA Hard Drive

2x Seagate Exos X10 10TB SAS Hard Drives

Seagate Exos X12 12TB SATA Hard Drive

3x Seagate Exos X20 20TB SATA Hard Drives

LSI HBA 9361-i8

EVGA 2060 Super GPU (Before I had a Ryzen 5 3500X so GPU was needed)

EVGA 750W GT PSU

LG UH12NS40 Blu-Ray Drive 

Fractal Design Define R5 ATX Mid Tower Case
JetKVM for remote management (Soon should be available on Amazon for $70 USD but GLiNet has something similar for around the same price available now)

Ubuntu Server 24.04.2 LTS with Xfce desktop environment for backup. 

 

This does everything I need it for. Jellyfin for media hosting, Pterodactyl for game servers and MakeMKV/HandbreakCLI for ripping DVDs/Blu-Ray discs.

 

You really don't need overkill components to do what you want. Are there things I could change for something more efficient? Sure. This wasn't built at once, things were upgraded overtime when pricing came down on certain things like the CPU and storage. At the very beginning I only had 11TB of storage but as my needs were needing more and my "Linux ISO" collection grew I got to where I am today.

 

Since your in Australia, definitely look at the used market that way you can save for other things. Also look on YouTube for TechYesCity. Great deals exist mate!

 

As far as gaming on said server for friends we've played multiple minecraft packs from ATM (6-10), RLCraft, BetterMC and GreedyCraft to name a few. Escape from Tarkov/SPT, Factorio, Avorion, Satisfactory and Skyrim Together to name other games. All ran great even with multiple Minecraft servers running. 

 

As far as Jellyfin I stress tested with my friends and had 8 concurrent streams before I ran out of bandwidth and hitching started occurring. But the system was rock solid.

 

With your want of a KVM, I joined the kickstarter for JetKVM as it was the perfect thing I needed for when I needed the desktop GUI to do a simple task that would of taken too long on my phone over SSH. Its a perfect little thing that gets power from the UPS over usb that way I can shutdown/restart and not need to worry if it doesn't come back on as I never have any luck with USB always outputting power. But GLiNet's offering is just as good on paper. I ordered one the other day needing a second KVM for my other server since JetKVM isn't on Amazon yet but it hasn't arrived. So I can't give my opinion on it yet.

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 hours ago, Furball159. said:

FYI to you guys I have an updated intel alternitive parts list, tho I may put the pikvm back since if i use a consumer CPU i can't find an IPMI mobo.

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/3Prpfd

Does this board support BIOS Flash without a CPU though cause knowing my luck I will get one with an early BIOS that doesn't support the CPU

I'd just use the iGPU here. Its better for transcoding in my testing than the arc card. Might as well get the current gen 200 series CPUs too.

 

If you want IPMI, ECC support and more server features they make server board for 1700 and lga 1851 you can get .