Using pc as a server. Want to replace old stuff.

[mrkwkns]

Hey guys

 

I have the following hardware:

* Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI

* GPU: MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8G

* CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K

* Optical Drive: Silverstone SOD02 Slim DVDRW Optical Drive

* HDD: Samsung 850 EVO Series M.2 250GB SSD

* PSU: SilverStone SX600-G SFX Modular 600W

* RAM: Corsair DDR4 2400MHz 16GB 2x288DIMM

* HDD: 3x 3tb WD Red 

 

 

I would like to use above hardware to run:

* Webhosting (personal website)

* Radarr

* Sonarr

* NZBget

* Plex

* Network storage

 

 

Right now i have a Qnap TS251 but it's not powerfull enough to transcode Plex streams that's why i have a laptop (Probook 6550b) running Plex server.

I'd like to get rid of the Qnap and laptop. What software should i run on the pc to do everything i want? OMV? Unraid? Windows maybe?  What about safety, are these operating systems secure?

 

Should i sell the gpu, since i don't need it for the (server)pc?

 

Thanks in advance!!

[Salacious B Crum]

2 minutes ago, mrkwkns said:

Hey guys

 

I have the following hardware:

* Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI

* GPU: MSI RX 480 Gaming X 8G

* CPU: Intel Core i5 6600K

* Optical Drive: Silverstone SOD02 Slim DVDRW Optical Drive

* HDD: Samsung 850 EVO Series M.2 250GB SSD

* PSU: SilverStone SX600-G SFX Modular 600W

* RAM: Corsair DDR4 2400MHz 16GB 2x288DIMM

* HDD: 3x 3tb WD Red 

 

 

I would like to use above hardware to run:

* Webhosting (personal website)

* Radarr

* Sonarr

* NZBget

* Plex

* Network storage

 

 

Right now i have a Qnap TS251 but it's not powerfull enough to transcode Plex streams that's why i have a laptop (Probook 6550b) running Plex server.

I'd like to get rid of the Qnap and laptop. What software should i run on the pc to do everything i want? OMV? Unraid? Windows maybe?  What about safety, are these operating systems secure?

 

Should i sell the gpu, since i don't need it for the (server)pc?

 

Thanks in advance!!

unRAID has my vote just finished my setup very happy with it and it runs all the dockers you listed leave the gpu and run VM's on it for shits and giggles

[mariushm]

No need for the RX 480 in that system, if you want to re-purpose it for some server style pc.

I would argue it wouldn't even make sense to waste that 250 GB SSD in a serve, if you can find some use for that (for example in the laptop.   A 40-50$  1 TB drive will be just fine for operating system (once you boot the computer and the applications, they'll basically be in memory so hdd speed won't matter)

 

To host your personal website you would need to have a relatively static IP address in the first place (your IP shouldn't change every time the modem reboots or your ISP wants to change it) ... you can buy a domain name and point it to your IP address so that when users type domain.tld they access your website but whenever the IP changes, you'll also have to update the DNS settings and then it will take hours for the changes to propagate and for every user that accessed your website before to receive the new IP address.

 

Keep in mind that email is unlikely to work, you will probably be unable to set up an email server and send emails from your IP address because you can't set up reverse dns on your IP (you would have to ask you ISP to do that and they probably won't do it, unless you order "business internet" or something like that)

 

So you'd have to design your website to not use emails which is doable for some "my cv, my contact info, stuff i did" kind of site, maybe even setting up some forum could be possible without emails.  There are third party email sending systems you could use but they're not cheap, you'll most likely be better off with some shared hosting plan.  For example see Amazon Simple Email Service  which costs 0.10$ for 1000 emails sent : https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

 

You could isolate your things into virtual machines, for example create a small virtual machine for your web server and php and a small mysql database (if you want to) and that will be as if it's a separate computer inside your server ...  if your virtual machine with web hosting http server and php and stuff that is hacked, you can just reset that virtual machine and hackers won't gain access to your other stuff that's on the computer.

 

[mrkwkns]

Thanks for your responses. I appreciate it. I'm going to sell the gpu and install Unraid.

For applications i'm going to use docker containers. My website doesn't use a database so no need for sql. I've got a domainname and ddns.

Is there a way to export the watch/view states from Plex (Windows) to a Plex docker container?