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You just end up creating an desolate community full of noise, since the op will never see the replies.

It hurts lemmy users who don't realize this and wonder why there's no engagement.

For example: https://lemmy.ml/comment/17284093

Blindly copying posts from reddit is not the way to grow a healthy lemmy community.

What the title suggests. I mean, I've already looked for some server simulation games but haven't found any first-person ones. Well done, something like "viscera cleanup detail"—I'm not talking about anything like Cisco or a network simulator—could be an interesting project to create a game like that.

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I've been using Xpenology on an old PC for years without a day's problem. Super quick and super reliable. Because DSM 6.1 was the latest I could run, it was very outdated so I bought a Synology DS220J without much thought. My God, is the thing a pile of crap. My dead nan responds quicker than this heap of junk.

I know I could build a much faster, cheaper NAS again but I'd like to have something that can just sit there, update itself and work without me having to worry about it for once. So with that in mind, what's the fastest two bay Synology for home use?

Main reason for wanting something more modern is to migrate completely from iCloud. So far the Synology is doing it brilliantly syncing my contacts, calendar, photos and files from my iPhone. So the functionality is there.

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Electricity usage and cooling in summer would be a reason for I think... Would latency and security be the chief cons?

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I posted my rack a long time ago but college was demotivating me so I took a break from the project. But now I've got the motivation back and I finally bought a patch panel off FB marketplace. Took 9 hours to get it installed and all the cables crimped but it was worth it. I'm currently recreating my college capstone project on my homelab to make it easier to complete at school on classroom equipment.

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Dipping my toes into the realm of homelabbing and would like the experienced eyes of this subreddit on the hardware list that I've put together. I've read the wiki sections on software and hardware (and asked ChatGPT some stuff), so I have some basic understanding of what I'm trying to accomplish and how to do it.

My goals are, in order of priority, hosting a Plex server for my home and sharing with friends and family, setting up a Raspberry Pi for Pi-Hole, and file hosting that can be accessed remotely to combine my local/Google Drive/OneDrive/iCloud storage. I understand the Pi is all separate hardware-wise from this, so not related to this post.

I have plenty of experience building PCs for gaming but I'm not sure how the performance requirements of server hosting translate. Please feel free to recommend cheaper/better options for hardware. I'd like to stay under $1,500 and my current part list is ~$1,320. Thanks for the help.

PCPartPicker List

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I was reading some comments in my last post.

One thing stood out in particular: people are wanting me to fix my power supply issue

If you hadn't seen it was essentially just the pile of power supplies sitting on the desk. I have now updated that by putting them between each computer (see second image). They run cool enough that I'm hoping it won't be an issue

Let me know if you have any other recommendations!

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Hello I am looking into buying the following machine for 150 eur:

Lenovo Thinkserver ts150 \ Intel Xeon e3 1220v6 \ DDR4 16Gb

Do you think it would be a good basic homely for stuff like TrueNas, Proxmox, Docker etc ?

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Hi everyone

I'm looking for a home/SOHO server with very few requirements:

- 16 GB Ram

- RAID-1 (prefer NVME, but SATA is ok)

- CPU that runs Win 11 24H2 (and newer)

Is it possible to find something like that in a mini or SFF? Perhaps HP, Lenovo or Dell?

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Recently got a R730XD and it has a set of rails included. My rack has the threaded screw holes in it, not the open squares that this rail system uses. Are there rails that would work with this blade server? Or am I better off buying a shelf and setting the server on that instead?

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So I had a very old synology 4bay I retired, I was only using it as storage, no apps on it. I bought the Unifi NAS, I have 7x 18TB in RAID-6, connected via 10gbe, to my switch, I also just built a server/desktop , core i7 ultra, 64gb ram, 2TB NVME, 10gbe network card. I installed windows 11 on it for now, I have plex server setup, sonarr, Radarr, I download everything to the computers 2TB drive and then it moves it to the nas. I was thinking of moving to either Proxmox or UnRAID, I don't mind the $250 if need be. I want to run some apps that require linux, so I would need to install WSL/Docker on this windows 11 pc, will plex iGPU transcoding work in either proxmox or unraid?

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Hello! I'm an intern sysadmin for my local school district, and things have been pretty fun so far, but recently, I've been wanting to get some more hands on experience with the server hardware. Since I'm only an intern, not only are my opportunities limited to work hours when I'm not busy with other stuff, much to my disappointment the regular IT staff don't really like us interns getting too touchy with the equipment because it's important, expensive, and all that other great stuff. Could anyone recommend some cheap but not irrelevant enterprise level server options I could pick up to try and get more experience so that I could get some more in depth learning? I found a poweredge r610 for about 70 usd, but I'm reading a lot of mixed testimonies about their power draw, outdatedness(?) and some issues with iDRAC, which all make like more of a hassle than it's worth. Thanks in advance!

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Hopefully this project will be done soon. Posted a few months ago on r/Ubiquiti - made some changes and got closer to being done. Feels like it's been a never-ending battle with this rack. But finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.Waiting on a couple of components to replace some place-holders.On the Rack:UC DisplayUDM Pro MaxUSW AggregationUSW Pro Max 24 PoEUSW-Pro-48USP RPSUNVRUSP-PDU-ProIntake fans at the bottomExhaust fans at the topHere are some images.

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I am wanting to upgrade my current homelab. I have my old currnet prod server at home and a supermicro server at my work (Got it from ewaste). I'm having trouble with the proxmox install though.

Currnet main specs are:

• Dell T430
• 2x E5-2620 v4
• Dell Perc H730
• 2x Dell 400GB Datacenter SSDs running proxmox in ZFS mirror
• 6x 2TB HDD in Raid Z2 in Truenas (passed through drives)

New Server Specs:

• SuperMicro SuperServer 7049P-TR
• 2x Xeon Scalable 2nd Gen Silver 4208
• X11DPi-N Motherboard
• AVAGO MegaRAID SAS 9341-8i (July 02, 2018 Firmware version 6.36.00.3)
• 2x Dell 800GB Datacenter SSDs
• 6x 2TB HDD left alone as I can't get it working for now

The main issue I'm having is with the proxmox install. On my main server, all drives are in passthrough/IT/HBA mode, whatever you want to call it. I installed proxmox on the 2x 400GB SSDs in ZFS Mirror. Works great and had 0 issues installing it.

On the new server, I made sure to clear all virtual disks and foreign configurations and set every drive to JBOD mode which I am assuming is the same as passthrough/IT/HBA mode. When I try to do the same proxmox install on the 800GB SSDs with a ZFS Mirror, it installs, but will not boot into proxmox. I cannot get it to show in boot menu at all and will immediately goto PXE boot because it cannot find anything. When I install proxmox with just a single drive, it works no issue and boots.

I then installed Windows server afterwards to test to make sure it wasn't broken and I could see the partitions on both drives in the Windows server install menu so I know its properly installing

I do understand that in the documentation it says drives connected to a raid controller is not supported but it worked on my current server, it should work on this new server the same way. I'm not sure if I'm not setting the drives correctly or if I'm doing something wrong with this install. I don't want to do a virtual disk and set the raid through the controller as I want proxmox to setup the ZFS mirror.

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So I'm trying to build some practical experience for SIEM. The problem is that I don't have very powerful machine. I have a dell inspiron(8GB RAM and 4 i3 cores). So I can't think of running a VM (because my system could not handle it), and I'm not rich enough to afford cloud instances. So my question is - Is it a good idea to setup entire graylog architecture (that includes graylog, elastic search, sending logs from my local system to SIEM and anything that is major to run graylog) on one single machine? Specifically my machine.

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Dear homelab community!

I have been running two Raspberry Pis (3 B+) for years now. One hosts Zigbee2MQTT and the other one Homebridge. I have dozens of home automation devices (lights, plugs, blinds, thermometers) in my house.

Yesterday I added another Raspberry Pi (also 3 B+) which hosts Adguard Home. I’ve bought a nice little “mini rack” that can house up to four Raspberry Pis and moved the whole thing to the room in the basement where the cable modem, router and switch are. My wife started calling that room the “server room” - That made me happier than would actually be appropriate…

Some time ago, I realized that you don't need a separate computer for every service. Nevertheless, I have ordered a fourth Raspberry Pi (4 with 8 GB RAM) for the next expansion - paperless-ngx and Wireguard (my router is an ER605). I couldn't install paperless-ngx on the first two Raspberrys because they both only have 32bit Linux. The Raspberry with Adguard has an SD card that is too small. I also wanted a little more computing power for paperless-ngx.

Now comes my question: Should I simply continue to operate four Raspberrys, or would you migrate the existing services (Zigbee2MQTT, Homebridge, Adguard) to the new Raspberry? If you were to set it up from scratch, you would probably only use one Raspberry. But I'm worried that I'll mess up my smarthome configuration and it will all be a huge effort.

Alternatively, I could just install Adguard Home on the new Raspberry 4 in addition to paperless-ngx, which would at least save me one device.

Of course, I am aware that there is no “real” need to reduce the number of Raspberries. I don't mind the little bit of electricity costs. But somehow it's also a question of honor to do the whole thing according to best practice.

What would you recommend?

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Good morning everyone. What would you say is now the best GPU for 2 people gaming in it under 1000€. 7900 xtx because you can use 12gb vram per user or a 9070xt because it's newer? Other options? Doesn't need to be a new card. Keyword gpu paravirtualization

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Hey,

I have recently bought 3 NUCs with i7-8650U and 64GB RAM each. The plan was to create a Proxmox Ceph Cluster for them and then inside create k8s cluster. What about the backup? Should I get another NUC maybe i3 for proxmox backup server? Is it compatible with Ceph cluster? Maybe you have other suggestions what would be the best setup here? Open to discussions before I start implementing :D

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So I'm a noob at this and I've set up proxmox backup server as a VM. Would it be best to backup to an SSD on my machine or to a Nas?

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In building my first Plex server, I thought I'd turn it into one big experiment machine, combining a media server with learning how to host a game server and, of course, for use as a homelab! The last two use cases are me getting ahead of myself, but I figured I'd might as well spec it out to cover everything rather than have to upgrade.

Is this as simple as keeping base Windows for production (i.e., gaming/Plex server) and then just slapping a hypervisor in there to use virtual machines for the homelab/testing side of things?

As far as hardware, this is what I have for the current Plex build:

• C.P.U.: Intel Core i5-12400 (this appears more than sufficient for myself locally + 3-4 remote Plex users, but what about for 4-6 folks on a dedicated game server? Will beefier games require a better C.P.U. or would that only be for multiple game servers and dozens of people?)

• G.P.U.: integrated

• R.A.M.: 16 GB DDR4 (I assume I'd want to step this up to 32-64 GB minimum for virtual machine allocation, yeah?)

• Motherboard: whatever I can slap the i5-12400 into with two m.2 slots, 6+ S.A.T.A. ports, and Intel 2.5 GB LAN

• P.S.U.: 500 W+, 80+ Gold, fully/semi-modular

• Tower: probably the Fractal Meshify 2 (or XL)?

• S.S.D.: Samsung 990 Pro 1 TB (boot drive), Team Group MP33 256 GB (Plex temporary files)

• H.D.D.: Western Digital Red Plus 12 TB (x2 or x4, to start; I've heard 14 TB+ are louder)

• O.S.: Windows (I'll use the homelab to learn Linux), but I'm honestly lost here. Windows 10 is obviously no longer sold, but Microsoft kept the v22H2 .iso up on their website? Which seems great, but I'd need at least Pro to access Active Directory and such. I learned about LTSC versions, but those apparently require an Enterprise license that doesn't look like it can be bought solo for personal use. I assumed Windows Server would be an even better platform to learn on (given that I use it daily at work), but the licensing for that is also not for solo/personal use. Running a trial version on my production server also doesn't seem like a good idea, so what the heck do I do?

Any other considerations or does this look like a solid starting place?

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Where I live the voltage fluctuates from 140V to 240V. It’s at the very end of the power line distribution, and it will take awhile for the energy supply company to fix the power line. 

The only equipments I want to protect, mainly from the under-voltage, are a Mac Studio and a Mac Studio Display, so I don’t need much output VA.

Been looking for a line interactive UPS, but the ones I find work only in the input range 160V - 290V. For instance,

• https://www.salicru.com/sps-650-soho-.html
• https://greencell.global/en/uninterruptible-power-supplies/1086-green-cell-uninterruptible-power-supply-ups-800va-480w-with-lcd-display-eu-version-2x-schuko-sockets.html

Is there any interactive line UPS that covers all the way to 140V input?

If not, want to make sure that a fully online UPS will do, in particular, if I'm interpreting the specs correctly. For instance, looking at the specs of this one I see that at 40% usage, it seems to cover the range 100V - 300V:

• https://www.salicru.com/slc-700-twin-pro2.html

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Hi, I have this access point that I wanna use. It supports PoE and PoE+, but it operates in reduced power with regular PoE. I would just use this is in a medium sized flat with like 4 devices. Should I buy a PoE or a more expensive PoE+ switch? It also supports a regular wall adapter. Maybe do you know something like that? Thank you.

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Hello! I have two ubiquity USW-Pro-Max-24-PoE switches and a 10G Single-Mode Optical Module (UACC-OM-SM-10G-D-2). I have an electrician running fiber between the switches. He said he was running "6 Strand Indoor Plenum Rated Single mode Custom Pre-Terminated Fiber Optic Cable Assembly with Corning® Glass"

Is there anything else I need to buy or know entering into the world of fiber? Thanks!

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So I have a GS728TP and recently it's been behaving oddly. Sometimes when I make some changes to settings via the admin page, sometimes it will lock me out when trying to complete, I'll no longer be able to get into the admin page, but the switch is still functioning, the network is still running.

So what I've had to do a few times is a factory reset and start over and upload my saved config file with the switch disconnected and me going in via the default IP address.

I had to do this again yesterday, but although everything is running, whilst connected to my network (DHCP sever on the router) I cannot get into the management page, I can only do so my disconnecting the switch from the router, restart the switch and using the default IP address.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

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I’ve always been interested in DIY servers but felt intimidated by Linux commands and complex setups. Seeing many recommend Mini PCs as easy-to-use, I decided to try the DreamQuest Pro Plus N100 (32GB+2TB).
Setup was simpler than expected—Windows was pre-installed, and it booted in under 10 seconds, just like a new laptop.
I tested OpenWRT for a soft router and TrueNAS for a NAS—both ran smoothly. The fan is barely audible, and power consumption is just 6-8W, making 24/7 operation cost-effective.
This Mini PC is beginner-friendly, powerful for daily tasks, and energy-efficient—great for first-time users.

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