Building a Server

[aceman778]

Hello all,

I've been very interested in building my own Home Server. I was just wondering if anyone could give me a full list of equipment that I will need, excluding the actual rack itself. I'm looking for something cheap and reliable.

Thanks!

 

[USAFRet]

Hello all,

I've been very interested in building my own Home Server. I was just wondering if anyone could give me a full list of equipment that I will need, excluding the actual rack itself. I'm looking for something cheap and reliable.

Thanks!

Depends on what you want this to do.

But a 'server' is nothing more than a PC that does server functions.
You don't need some big rack mounted thing with 128GB RAM and quad CPU's.

 

[aceman778]

Hello all,

I've been very interested in building my own Home Server. I was just wondering if anyone could give me a full list of equipment that I will need, excluding the actual rack itself. I'm looking for something cheap and reliable.

Thanks!

Depends on what you want this to do.

But a 'server' is nothing more than a PC that does server functions.
You don't need some big rack mounted thing with 128GB RAM and quad CPU's.

I'm looking for something like this

Mainly storage and all that but in future also be able to host a webserver.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm looking for something like this

Mainly storage and all that but in future also be able to host a webserver.

Note that something like that would have to live out in the garage or in its own sound baffled room. That would be LOUD.

That can be done with any PC. Or even better, a wide range of the newer NAS boxes. Synology, Qnap, etc.

 

[13thmonkey]

Are you trying to serve 10,000 people and host 100's of TB?

Mine sits inside a Fractal Design Mini case, it'll get upgraded when my gaming machine is no longer capable, if i can be bothered with the reinstall. Currently it's an Athlon II dual core.

That Rack that you pointed us to, can probably hold several 100 TB of data, TB of RAM, and many many cores, and is probably capable of hosting everything for a 10,000+ company (without replication/failover etc.) You could probably run everything the government of a small country needs.

So what do you actually want to do? Then the right sized solution can be understood.

 

[aceman778]

I'm looking for something like this

Mainly storage and all that but in future also be able to host a webserver.

Note that something like that would have to live out in the garage or in its own sound baffled room. That would be LOUD.

That can be done with any PC. Or even better, a wide range of the newer NAS boxes. Synology, Qnap, etc.

Yeah, I have a room that isn't currently being used and it has plenty of space for it.
I wouldn't say 10, 000 people but I do want to store lots of files, documents, etc. I also want security and permissions for those said files.

 

[13thmonkey]

I'm looking for something like this

Mainly storage and all that but in future also be able to host a webserver.

Note that something like that would have to live out in the garage or in its own sound baffled room. That would be LOUD.

That can be done with any PC. Or even better, a wide range of the newer NAS boxes. Synology, Qnap, etc.

Yeah, I have a room that isn't currently being used and it has plenty of space for it.
I wouldn't say 10, 000 people but I do want to store lots of files, documents, etc. I also want security and permissions for those said files.

It'll be simultaneous connections that impacts the 'size' of the server, number of files is just storage space and is easier to manage and scale.

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah, I have a room that isn't currently being used and it has plenty of space for it.
I wouldn't say 10, 000 people but I do want to store lots of files, documents, etc. I also want security and permissions for those said files.

"lots of files" is just drive space. My little NAS box, and the low power PC before it that did house server duties, has ~20TB of directly addressable drive space.

As said above, number of simultaneous connections is the issue.
So...how many? You? Your family? The whole town?

And as far as running a 'web server', personally, I wouldn't do it from the house on a residential connection.
I do this stuff for a living, and I'd use one of the many hosting services long before I'd run it from the house. Even your ISP probably gives you some free web space.