How to start this

droidman85 · August 11, 2018

Hi, i have an old computer with a core2quad and i'm using it as a plex media server, but he cannot handle what i need to do now, wanted to make a in-house server with some virtualization/hosting and databases and so on.

I wanted to do this for a long time but now i have 2 fiber connections at my house, pretty decent 200mbps upload in one of them, 100mbps upload on the other, 1000mbps downlonad on each.

I can use a DMZ or something similar and use them for pure hosting + no-ip service or even ask my isp's for dedicated ip's, i manage a lot of server so mx records can be somewhere else so no problem there, i have multiple UPS and i wanted to make a more powerfull virtualization server or nas that can hold a lot more. Or even multiple servers.

I also have and old core i5 with motherboard here stopped in a box + 16gb of good ddr3 ram but it is a 4core4thread cpu pretty much like the core2quad.

So looking at my options, i wanted to ask here because a lot of you did stuff like this, do i go for a mid dize rack and buy some old servers and start from there? is that the path?

16gb of ram and 4 cores will not help me that much, one of the servers i want to move home is basicly a very expensive 64 core, 256gb of ram server with a 2tb ssd at ovh france and it's being used to manage stats for email applications, this server is not crytical and is super expensive. (in my build it does not need to be this powerfull also)

Also i wanted to do something that is almost mandatory, i need to put watercooling to avoid having to hide the servers on the garage because of the noise and avoid humidity problems.

I know that this is not simple nor is it a 1 step build, it will take time, i probably need more decent switches and hardware i didn't take into account yet.

One of the clients will even be super happy because he is paying a lot to OVH for a non-crytical server to be on and just get backups every day. 2 Other clients even offered to pay my internet and electrical bill and this is suposed to be a fun project.

PS: yes backups will be on another different place so no problem there.

names, models, brands, recommendations, budjet options, ideas?

thanks in advance