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Hello, I'm looking forward to building a home server for mass storage and server hosting. The most important part right now is the server hosting part, I have plans in hosting dedicated servers (one at a time) to play with my friends but I can't find any comparisons that talk about those two...

As a South African, my options in online gaming are limited thus causing me to play with an average 160+ ping on EUR servers and 130+ ping on Middle East (Bahrain). One of the games i play is Valorant and FOR NO REASON! >:-(( this happens, View: https://imgur.com/a/s8a9ogW My network...

Good day my fellow nerds! I am looking for recommendations on Motherboards for a NAS server at home. The OS I will be using is UNRAID OS. Server itself will be used for File Storage, VMs, Game Server Hosting, & Media Streaming. Right now I am struggling to find a motherboard that I like so I...

I have a JINGSAH X79M-S3.0 Motherboard (LGA2011) and Intel Xeon E5-2690 CPU. Motherboard was made in China and seems to be incredibly generic in nature. Finding information on this (not written in Chinese) has been a real challenge, resource materials seem to be limited (at best). I am not...

hi all, I have a dell precision t7500 which originally had no ram, storage, GPU, extra riser card and only had a Xeon x5667 installed. I purchased 2x Xeon x5670's, a riser card, 48gb of 12600r memory, that's 12 4gb sticks of single rank x4 stuff. I installed my own known working storage and...

I am currently running a Minecraft server for a few friends on a laptop connected to a TELUS Wi-Fi Hub. I have successfully configured it so that both local and global users can connect and everything works fine EXCEPT that when my roommate disconnects from the server or the server is restarted...

Having some issues with mounting a hard drive for a server I'm building for a client. I've searched everywhere for Documentation on this specific case but haven't found a lick of anything. One review made on the case even stated their own problems mounting their hard drive, but didn't offer a...

I want to run a Minecraft server off of my computer. I port forwarded already and the port is still closed. All the things I've done are: set up the port forward turned on bridge mode on my modem changed the firewall settings to let the port through set up my local ip to be static I have a...

Please read: I used to have internet speeds of 70mb DOWN and 20mb UP when I lived in a different city and had a different internet provider. With my new internet provider in a different city that I moved into I get 360mb DOWN and 40mb UP. Now the thing is, I noticed that when I am hosting a...

Some context: At present, we use a Centralized OneDrive system for the office, so that instead of creating multiple copies, files can be worked upon simultaneously. However, my parents are desirous of limiting access to the employees, only sharing those files which are necessary, fearing (and...

I have a server PC with an ASRock z77 pro3 motherboard. I've been having problems with this PC since the beginning but don't exactly know why. It's got a Corsair 750watt PSU in it and a non-lhr 3060. I probably reflashed hiveOS on its SSD at least 15 times over the past few days but made sure to...

Hi, My team and I are working on a new project, that requires group access to a single locally stored stock library. Each team member would be working on a video and they would source the footage that they require from our stock library. They would need to access the library via the network...

I have a quick question about a new SSD drive i have ordered. I plan to use it in my makshift server, an old 2015 business PC. It uses a lot of pagefile, the servers take huge amounts of ram. It has 16 GB of ram. After 3 server boot its using 25 GB of RAM and allocated 31 GB. So its basicly...

Is there a kind of program that would allow me to see what servers a particular software connects to, for instance an activation server or something similar?

Hello guys. I'm posting this in the Windows 10 section because that's the OS I'm using so I felt it was relevant. <Mod edit: Moved to "Networking"> OS = Windows 10 So, I am currently working on building a Minecraft server bungeecord network. I am, at the moment, working on hiring staff...

Hello, so I just bought this small desktop from eBay because I wanted to play modded Minecraft and I wanted to host it on a server. I don't like paying for a server so I just invested on a personal one so that it is better in the long term. I installed Ubuntu Server and AMP for hosting the...

I recently bought an old super micro server. When the house HVAC turns on the lights dim and the super micro server occasionally turns off. Would one of those scam sound improved pci cards full of capacitors be able to help stabilize power for that spilt second to keep the server running?

Hi, Currently repurposing an old desktop as a vm host on my network. The desktop I’m using has an i3 3220 - id like to upgrade but I am on a budget. Asking here because I’m worried about comparability, as I know although it uses the same socket as some newer cpus yet isn’t compatible 🙃. I...

Hello, I will buy a new server to upgrade my current server. The server is second-hand, but the server looks clean. I will test the server when I buy it, but how can I quickly test the hardware at the time of purchase? What are the most important points I need to check for hardware? How can I...

Hello, Can I use SSD or NVMe disk memory on HP DL360 G7 Server? I am currently using SAS 15K and I wonder if it is possible to replace SSD with SATA? Thank you.

I added a 8TB storage unit on my rooter and had to devide it in 4x2TB partitions to work, aperently it doesnt allow more than 2TB for each partition. So my question would be if I clould run thees partitions in raid0 to make it look like 8TB again instead of 4x2TB. If so could someone plz help me...

I've been attempting to set up a Minecraft server for me and my friends on an old laptop, and everything went great until the dreaded port forwarding. I think I've narrowed it down to be Google WiFi's fault. Here's what the situation is: The firewall is allowing JAVA and the port forwarding...

hey, i have a cloud outlook account on my windows 11 pro, i log in through pin code or fingerprint from logon screen. when requesting SSH server it request me user's password!(which i never set), what could it be?and how can i find it/set it?* * tried entering pin code/outlook account, did not work!

My four friends (including myself) have decided to build a storage server for our friend-circles. Now, we want to discuss with Tom's Hardware Forum Members (Including moderators and all others!) about this topic. So guys if you have any idea or suggestion please post it here and that will be so...

I've installed 36GB RAM on my Home Server PC, but it shows 32GB RAM installed. I've tested all the RAM on another PC but there is no fault in the RAMs. Why this is happening?

Hi all! So, I'm in the middle of deploying a server using Windows Server 2019 Standard. I will be running a Linux VM (Zorin OS 16 Core) through Windows Hyper-V that will be hosting Nextcloud. I have 4x 4TB HDDs in a RAID 5 array that ended up totaling around 10.3TB of useable space. When I...

Hey everyone! I'd love to hear some ideas/opinions about what I've got going on as I prepare to deploy a server for the first time, specifically about storage setup I'm looking at storage solutions for my newly purchased (used) HP Z640 Workstation. I got it for $360 with the following specs...

Hello there, I am not sure if this is the right thread to be in but I had a question in regards to dual booting. So I have a server system that I have built and I have stored it away under my desk since I have no place to put it where I can have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. With this in...

Hello, I currently plan on buying 5 cheapest 32" TVs and 5 chromebits CS10 to place in small grocery stores in different cities with one purpose, display a pricelist on a TV. I need this because the shop assistants: 1). keep changing the price on their own and they pocket the difference thus...

I have an HP Proliant DL380 G7 server, in which I want to install an RX 580 to build a render server. I saw that with a riser, you can use PCI-E cards up to 150 Watts. Sadly, the 580 is rated at a TDP of 185 Watts. Can I use a secondary PSU to power the 580? I know that the proper thing to do...

Hello, I would like to know if Windows server 2008 is able to detect that one of the the drives in Raid has failed. If not, is there a way for the Raid to communicate about failure? Beeping or email, anything. I'm using Windows server 2008 Old HP desktop server with ORCA v8.20.60.00 Any help...

This is a new one for me. Here's my story. I have a basic headless server machine that I use to run some game servers and other basic utilities. It's an i7-3770 with an Intel DH67BL motherboard, 32GB of Crucial Balistix, and a basic SATA 128GB SSD running Windows Server 2019. The system has...

I recently picked a free but old dell poweredge 2950 with 40GB of DDR2 ram with dual Xeon x5355 CPU's. I was wondering if I could just throw in a low profile 1650 so that I can game while away since my laptop is too weak to even run minecraft at 50fps. I would not be playing anything intensive...

So I recently purchased a server in Dallas since that's where I live and I'd like to get the lowest ping possible, the IP is <<Removed by moderator>> if anyone is curious. It's running Ubuntu 20.04 and even though I'm right on top of it I get 35ms ping even though similar servers I get 3ms. Did...

[Moderator Edit to break up a solid paragraph and remove bold font.] Hi everyone, I am looking for some help so if you have any info please share, I'm going to explain what I'm trying to do and then hoping you can tell me if any of my ideas are possible or if you have better ideas please share...

Hi everyone, I have been lucky enough to start a tiny company. It is very tiny and does not generate a huge amount of profit. Nevertheless, I do feel that I need a platform to store my data and run my applications. So far, I have been running everything from my desktop, but it isn't...

Hey guys, I would like to acess my data, but cant acess the drives. My situation: I set up my RAID 0 with high-water allocation method with 5 drives, 2x2TB and 3x1TB It was all just a normal PC with an unraid Boot Stick. I filled it up with 3,3TB of important files, windows backups etc. but I’m...

If anyone is free tomorrow that would be able to help me please add me on discord or reply to this post with another form of communication! I have been trying to get this stuff to work all day and I just can't so if someone out there knows a fix then please hit me up! Discord- JakaXXXX XXXX =...

Hello I'm at a stump. I have a LSI SAS9200-16e that connects my 45 JBOD enclosure to my server. Motherboard is a SUPERMICRO X8DTH-IF If the JBOD is turned OFF then the computer will start and get into windows but obviously then you don't have your hard drives from the enclosure. If the JBOD...

Hello to everybody! First things first, I've just landed in this forum, and looks like there are lots of nice and experienced people here. Im glad to have joined this community :) Relative to the question, I want to explain the main purpose of the build that I have in my mind, before giving...