my main PC hosts nothing, everything else is always on

sometimes I remember I’m self hosting things

my scsi controller needs to be entered during boot to manage raid. it also has an external battery that needed replacing (which cost more new than just buying a new card … with the exact same battery) so if you’re not in verbose boot mode figure that out and see if the controller is telling you which function key it needs.

figuring out this old stuff is most of the fun in running it, I would sell it as scrap before actually hosting anything on it.

I have a HP Proliant DL380G7, basically the last server with a front side bus, and all the comments about it where about power per watt.

and they’re not wrong.

I just don’t think this is the community for old servers like this, self hosting is very much a practical consideration and the money spent on electricity running anything useful on these old things is better spent on a raspberry pi or stand alone NAS or something.

I assume you’re not transcoding anything.

looks like they’re more than a Pi where I am anyway though.

got me a Dell optiplex mini 9020 i7 for less than my Pi

you haven’t seen the state of my server have you

what’s that? a federated service isn’t immune from a corporate take over? colour me shocked.

Seems like such a great idea until you have to maintain it, yeah.

There’s probably been a home inventory spreadsheet on every hard drive I’ve ever owned and not a single one was in a useful state.

Tonight. You.

is it worth starting out with podman or is this just some job requirement and docker is perfectly fine for us hobbyists

just messing around on https://shell.cloud.google.com is good for a beginner to unix enviroments.

I was just cosplaying but I’m flattered you thought I was a real sysadmin (also logging is always broken)

Is it connected to a gigabit connection? I recently found out my WiFi router only had 10/100 ports, which didn’t matter until I needed to use them

the S in “IoT” stands for security

I’ll be using this a lot, thanks

@aboringdystopia

if I had my time again I would go 4 bay first.

2 bays sound like a nice easy introduction to NAS until you pick raid 0 like a fucking animal.
I could have data redundancy or I could have DOUBLE the storage …

220j is fine for single user streaming. keep in mind the Js can’t run docker so you’re stuck with emby or plex or what I’m doing plain old media server :)

I assume because it’s built on linux you can get up in it’s guts and force it to run whatever you want though.

good bot

I figure that’s where it’ll end up but it’s just an opportunity to mess around with some enterprise level hardware.