Post Your Servers v3: Holy Motherload of Knowledge

[MTMod]

[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;50938712]I bid 2 snickers and a milky way bar. I'll throw in a king size Twix for shipping.[/QUOTE]

I'm not an expert but I think this thing is worth at least 3 snickers goddamn

[Doritos_Man]

[QUOTE=MTMod;50946219]I'm not an expert but I think this thing is worth at least 3 snickers goddamn[/QUOTE]

How much are you looking to get? I have a friend that is working on his CCNA and he might be interested.

[MTMod]

[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;50946977]How much are you looking to get? I have a friend that is working on his CCNA and he might be interested.[/QUOTE]

Ideally whoever bought it would be able to do a pickup instead of shipping, because it'd have to go freight. I'd only want to recover the costs I've put into it for the WIC's, PDU, patch panel, etc. I didn't actually pay for the gear, it came from our recycle pile at work. So maybe something like $150?

[Doritos_Man]

[QUOTE=MTMod;50947093]Ideally whoever bought it would be able to do a pickup instead of shipping, because it'd have to go freight. I'd only want to recover the costs I've put into it for the WIC's, PDU, patch panel, etc. I didn't actually pay for the gear, it came from our recycle pile at work. So maybe something like $150?[/QUOTE]

Where are you located?

[MTMod]

[QUOTE=Doritos_Man;50947117]Where are you located?[/QUOTE]

Sorry, I came back just now after realizing I never mentioned that. I'm in Grand Rapids, MI.

[Levelog]

[QUOTE=MTMod;50951172]Sorry, I came back just now after realizing I never mentioned that. I'm in Grand Rapids, MI.[/QUOTE]

You couldn't have been selling that when it was only a 2.5 hour drive for me? Now it's an 18 trip :v:

[MTMod]

[QUOTE=Levelog;50952403]You couldn't have been selling that when it was only a 2.5 hour drive for me? Now it's an 18 trip :v:[/QUOTE]

It wasn't for a lack of effort, it took me four tries to pass that damn test. Granted I wasn't prepared at all for the first two.

[Levelog]

[QUOTE=MTMod;50952624]It wasn't for a lack of effort, it took me four tries to pass that damn test. Granted I wasn't prepared at all for the first two.[/QUOTE]

Yeah I just failed my first attempt but that was honestly expected. Its got over an 80% first time fail rate. My old coworker who's about 2 weeks ahead of me schedule time failed the first but just passed the new ICDN1 test, says its a lot more clearly worded. I outright failed a simulation because I just didn't understand what they were asking with spelling and grammatical errors in the question.

[Oth]

After fucking about with my own hardware for years, I gave up.

I spent months building and tweaking "the perfect home server", rack mounted in a 4U box.
Then lost it when the PSU blew and took, well, pretty much everything with it.

Then I built a new one.
Lost that one to a leaky roof.

So fuck it, I just need it for backups these days so I got this tiny little VPS:

[url]https://www.hetzner.de/gb/hosting/produkte_vserver/cx10[/url]

It isn't fast, but it IS cheap, with good up-time, and after adding-on 10TB of storage space, it's more than enough.

We use Hetzner at work almost exclusively, figured I'd go with what I know.

I've also had it's big brother:
[url]https://www.hetzner.de/gb/hosting/produkte_vserver/cx60[/url]

But that was overkill for my purposes. I ran that as a Minecraft server for a while, which ran perfectly until I got bored of it.

[QUOTE=MTMod;50471504][t]http://i.imgur.com/Jsfbs2e.png[/t][/QUOTE]

I should make a diagram of my home wiring. I kinda went overboard pretty much... everywhere.

I don't have a particularly large home, but I figured "fuck it" and future proofed it by wiring CAT7 inside every wall, with CAT6a coming out of the wall-mounts.
(Since Cat7 isn't/wasn't very clearly defined and the wall-mounts weren't available when I was wiring).

All the switches and AP's are Gigabit, but the wiring at least is ready for multi-gigabit.
Devices are easily replaced. In-wall wiring, in a 30 y/o home, not so much.

Quick sketch-up:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/W0iOnBC.png[/t]

[Killervalon]

Reminds me, I'll have to throw some more LAN wall-mounts at my moms place, the house is new and h as tubes going up to the attic(? - kind of a storage place, needs ladder to get up there). Which kind of wiring should I do? The internet is going to be 1000/1000mbit next month and I'll have to place another AP to improve signal. Cat6e? Not sure if I should replace the wall mount to the place where I have the server too..

[Cakebatyr]

I would love to run ethernet in my walls. But I'm not sure how to go about it.

So I settled for a Ubiquiti AP-AC-Lite (affixed to my Ikea book shelf) and just upgraded all the PCs outside of my room and my closet with 802.11ac.

Not that my blazing fast 8/1Mbps internet connection can ever hope to saturate my network...

[frankpetrov]

[QUOTE=MTMod;50947093]Ideally whoever bought it would be able to do a pickup instead of shipping, because it'd have to go freight. I'd only want to recover the costs I've put into it for the WIC's, PDU, patch panel, etc. I didn't actually pay for the gear, it came from our recycle pile at work. So maybe something like $150?[/QUOTE]

I'd actually really be interested in the lab. Any possible way you can tell me the weight so I'd know how much freight would cost?

[MTMod]

[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;50962609]I'd actually really be interested in the lab. Any possible way you can tell me the weight so I'd know how much freight would cost?[/QUOTE]

I can bring it into work to our shipping & receiving folks and see what they say. I might have to break it all down first and ship them two or three to a box, we have a pile of Cisco boxes in the back that have packing materials already.

Also I just realized that I labeled the switches in my topology as "Cisco 2690"... all this time I've been reading it as 2960 and now I'm concerned about my mental health.

[frankpetrov]

-snip-
Check your messages

[Megalan]

New toys arrived today at work. Also got 2 300D's but they already installed and I'm too lazy to go to the server room to take a photo.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/0fj3WQU.png[/IMG]

[helifreak]

Went dedicated for that fat storage space (40GB to 1TB).
[t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20160907092316203.png[/t]
Only 1 gbit downlink compared to the 2 gbit of the old one but the disk isn't limited to 10 MiB/s this time so it's really 10x faster. Double the upload which is what actually matters.

My only regret is paying for a year on the VPS, it's just going to be sitting around doing fuck all until september next year.

If all goes well that image should be coming from the Netherlands in a couple of hours instead of Texas.

[editline]7th September 2016[/editline]

Don't go with SSDNodes unless you like your read access on the "SSDs" getting limited to 1.67 mbps for no fucking reason and randomly going up to 60 mbps for a half second when it wants to.
[t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20160907100100486.png[/t]
Thank fuck I put the bulk of it on MEGA last week so I don't have to wait a whole day for this shit to transfer.

[frankpetrov]

[QUOTE=helifreak;51013180]
[editline]7th September 2016[/editline]

Don't go with SSDNodes unless you like your read access on the "SSDs" getting limited to 1.67 mbps for no fucking reason and randomly going up to 60 mbps for a half second when it wants to.
[t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20160907100100486.png[/t]
Thank fuck I put the bulk of it on MEGA last week so I don't have to wait a whole day for this shit to transfer.[/QUOTE]

Are you sure it's always like that? I suppose there could be another client that's using way too much and really slowing it down for others. Though I imagine that would only be relevant to a single ssd. if it's multiple ssd's in a raid, i would think it shouldn't hurt too much unless the servers are extremely oversold. either way, that really sucks.

[helifreak]

[QUOTE=FrankPetrov;51013384]Are you sure it's always like that? I suppose there could be another client that's using way too much and really slowing it down for others. Though I imagine that would only be relevant to a single ssd. if it's multiple ssd's in a raid, i would think it shouldn't hurt too much unless the servers are extremely oversold. either way, that really sucks.[/QUOTE]

No it's been like that for the month and a half I've had it. Even installing new packages takes fucking forever because yum runs like shit when it's DB is limited to ~200 KiB/s read speeds.

[Sax]

Anyone have any experience with Powershell and Invoke-WebRequest ?

$username = "domain\api"
$password = "supersecretpassword" | ConvertTo-SecureString -asPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($username,$password)

$uri = 'https://supersecreturl.com/userlist'
$data = Invoke-WebRequest $uri -Credential $cred
Write-Host($data)

I've had to censor some of the sensitive details but the idea is there there, I can't seem to get it to login properly. The site I'm using have a API that gives XML output and I want to use it. The password and username is correct, though I'm not sure I've formated it correctly. All I'm getting is the login screen of the site. I'm very new to powershell but have experience scripting and programming before. I've followed microsoft's examples on this but can't still access.

[Darth-Veger]

Hey guys, are questions about building a Linux server welcome here a well? Because i'm kind of itching to build myself a server

[Darth-Veger]

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51023799]Yes.
What do you need it for?[/QUOTE]

I'm looking to run a ArmA 3 server for about 10 to 15 people. Guessing it would also not be hard to run a web server on it as well because i would also like to host a Apache server on it.

[Darth-Veger]

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51023825]Since Arma 3 is single threaded to fuck and back anything would be the bee's knees. Linux performance isn't as good as Windows though. Bare that in mind. Otherwise the latest Skylake i3 or Xeon equivalent would be the best bet.

[URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/6pLPFd"]PCPartPicker part list[/URL] / [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/6pLPFd/by_merchant/"]Price breakdown by merchant[/URL]

[B]CPU:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/hV7CmG/intel-cpu-bx80662i36100"]Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor[/URL] ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
[B]Motherboard:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/hMvZxr/gigabyte-motherboard-gah110ma"]Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard[/URL] ($53.88 @ OutletPC)
[B]Memory:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/kkL7YJ/kingston-memory-hx421c14fbk28"]Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory[/URL] ($39.99 @ Newegg)
[B]Storage:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Ck98TW/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz750250bw"]Samsung 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive[/URL] ($69.99 @ B&H)
[B]Case:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Nbhj4D/zalman-case-zmt1plus"]Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mini Tower Case[/URL] ($25.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Power Supply:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/bQzZxr/seasonic-power-supply-ssr350st"]SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply[/URL] ($43.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Total:[/B] $344.81
[I]Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available[/I]
[I]Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 06:39 EDT-0400[/I]

Of course I will present the Xeon option.
[URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/9PdDZ8"]PCPartPicker part list[/URL] / [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/9PdDZ8/by_merchant/"]Price breakdown by merchant[/URL]

[B]CPU:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/4bhj4D/intel-cpu-bx80662e31220v5"]Intel Xeon E3-1220 V5 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor[/URL] ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz)
[B]Motherboard:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/62mxFT/gigabyte-motherboard-gax150mplusws"]Gigabyte GA-X150M-PLUS WS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard[/URL] ($63.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Memory:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/4vWrxr/gskill-memory-f42400c15d16gvr"]G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory[/URL] ($64.99 @ Newegg)
[B]Storage:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Ck98TW/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz750250bw"]Samsung 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive[/URL] ($69.99 @ B&H)
[B]Case:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Nbhj4D/zalman-case-zmt1plus"]Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mini Tower Case[/URL] ($25.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Power Supply:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/bQzZxr/seasonic-power-supply-ssr350st"]SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply[/URL] ($43.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Total:[/B] $466.91
[I]Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available[/I]
[I]Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 06:42 EDT-0400[/I]
These were done in US prices so this should give you sorta an idea. Plus the Xeon setup gives you more room to expand into more servers.
The case is there cause its dead fucking cheap so if you wanted to do a cheap 2 drive fileserver otherwise feel free to change the case for more 3'5 drives if you want something bigger.

Yes the xeon has more RAM. That's on purpose in case of expansion not saying the i3 can't because it damn well can but it's a typical small stuff setup.[/QUOTE]

Wow thanks dude, quite the dedication!

[Cakebatyr]

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51023825]Since Arma 3 is single threaded to fuck and back anything would be the bee's knees. Linux performance isn't as good as Windows though. Bare that in mind. Otherwise the latest Skylake i3 or Xeon equivalent would be the best bet.

[URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/6pLPFd"]PCPartPicker part list[/URL] / [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/6pLPFd/by_merchant/"]Price breakdown by merchant[/URL]

[B]CPU:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/hV7CmG/intel-cpu-bx80662i36100"]Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor[/URL] ($110.99 @ SuperBiiz)
[B]Motherboard:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/hMvZxr/gigabyte-motherboard-gah110ma"]Gigabyte GA-H110M-A Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard[/URL] ($53.88 @ OutletPC)
[B]Memory:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/kkL7YJ/kingston-memory-hx421c14fbk28"]Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2133 Memory[/URL] ($39.99 @ Newegg)
[B]Storage:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Ck98TW/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz750250bw"]Samsung 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive[/URL] ($69.99 @ B&H)
[B]Case:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Nbhj4D/zalman-case-zmt1plus"]Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mini Tower Case[/URL] ($25.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Power Supply:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/bQzZxr/seasonic-power-supply-ssr350st"]SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply[/URL] ($43.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Total:[/B] $344.81
[I]Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available[/I]
[I]Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 06:39 EDT-0400[/I]

Of course I will present the Xeon option.
[URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/9PdDZ8"]PCPartPicker part list[/URL] / [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/list/9PdDZ8/by_merchant/"]Price breakdown by merchant[/URL]

[B]CPU:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/4bhj4D/intel-cpu-bx80662e31220v5"]Intel Xeon E3-1220 V5 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor[/URL] ($197.99 @ SuperBiiz)
[B]Motherboard:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/62mxFT/gigabyte-motherboard-gax150mplusws"]Gigabyte GA-X150M-PLUS WS Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard[/URL] ($63.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Memory:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/4vWrxr/gskill-memory-f42400c15d16gvr"]G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory[/URL] ($64.99 @ Newegg)
[B]Storage:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Ck98TW/samsung-internal-hard-drive-mz750250bw"]Samsung 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive[/URL] ($69.99 @ B&H)
[B]Case:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/Nbhj4D/zalman-case-zmt1plus"]Zalman ZM-T1 PLUS MicroATX Mini Tower Case[/URL] ($25.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Power Supply:[/B] [URL="http://pcpartpicker.com/product/bQzZxr/seasonic-power-supply-ssr350st"]SeaSonic 350W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply[/URL] ($43.98 @ Newegg)
[B]Total:[/B] $466.91
[I]Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available[/I]
[I]Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-09-09 06:42 EDT-0400[/I]
These were done in US prices so this should give you sorta an idea. Plus the Xeon setup gives you more room to expand into more servers.
The case is there cause its dead fucking cheap so if you wanted to do a cheap 2 drive fileserver otherwise feel free to change the case for more 3'5 drives if you want something bigger.

Yes the xeon has more RAM. That's on purpose in case of expansion not saying the i3 can't because it damn well can but it's a typical small stuff setup.[/QUOTE]

I may also use this list, its a shame that the xeon build is double the price in Canada, but that i3 one will do nicely if I ever decide to replace my C2D/4GB server.

[Cakebatyr]

[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;51025475]Could just opt for a second hand quad core but even an i3 second hand.[/QUOTE]

The US$64 Xeon motherboard is C$176 that's the biggest contributor to the increased cost.

[MetricMoose]

My FreeNAS build saga continues...

After buying all the parts originally, I decided on non-ECC RAM to save $60-70. The Asrock Rack motherboard I used did not boot with the non-ECC stuff, but would boot with some ECC Unbuffered RAM that I grabbed out of my VM server. Alright, whatever. I stuck the non-ECC in my desktop, went on newegg and saw they had some open box Crucial ECC Buffered RAM for exactly the same price as the unbuffered. A [I]really[/I] brief Google search later, it seemed like Buffered > UnBuffered, so I just quickly ordered the buffered stuff.

When the ECC Buffered RAM arrived, I installed it and the motherboard just sat there beeping at me. FUCK. I boxed up the RAM and returned it, then found a set of Crucial ECC Unbuffered sticks that someone in the reviews specifically mentioned using with my exact motherboard.

I ordered that from Newegg on Tuesday using my shiny new BMO Debit card that has a Mastercard number to use online (Normally I used Interac Online with my old debit card). Yesterday rolls around and I notice I hadn't got a tracking number yet. It looks like the payment was sitting in limbo and was actually declined on newegg's side, but they never sent an email telling me that the payment was declined. I spoke to newegg live chat, who mentioned all I have to do is call my bank to "unblock" the transaction. After being on hold for half an hour, the person from the bank didn't see any sign of the transaction on my account.

I then call newegg's customer service to figure out wtf is going on. After being on hold for 20 minutes, they don't seem to see anything other than the payment was declined. So, I'm guessing their payment processor does not like my debit card's "Mastercard but not quite" thing they have going on. I ask to switch payment methods to my real credit card, and they put me on hold for probably 30 minutes while they waited for a supervisor, checking in on me every two minutes. They finally got it sorted out and the payment went through...

I never thought I would be glad that I ordered my HBA card from China, it bought me a lot of time...

[andypopz]

My esxi host;

[t]http://i.imgur.com/LhYNeb3.png[/t]

Things I play with in muh lab;
(malware and some vulnhub boxes)

[t]http://i.imgur.com/JhesHEW.png[/t]

The Mr.Robot box from vulnhub

[t]http://i.imgur.com/1a2tygd.png[/t]

A pic of my actual machine;
[t]http://i.imgur.com/waCLgJf.jpg[/t]

[MTMod]

[t]http://i.imgur.com/BWGhZPp.jpg[/t]

Some tasty UCS goodness.

[DrTaxi]

[QUOTE=darth-veger;51023804]I'm looking to run a ArmA 3 server for about 10 to 15 people. Guessing it would also not be hard to run a web server on it as well because i would also like to host a Apache server on it.[/QUOTE]

On modern hardware, the resource requirements of an undemanding / low-traffic site (read: probably up to a couple dozen requests [I]per second[/I]) are negligible. So yeah, your game server's the only thing you've gotta take into consideration.

[frankpetrov]

[QUOTE=andypopz;51031039]My esxi host;

[t]http://i.imgur.com/LhYNeb3.png[/t]

Things I play with in muh lab;
(malware and some vulnhub boxes)

[t]http://i.imgur.com/JhesHEW.png[/t]

The Mr.Robot box from vulnhub

[t]http://i.imgur.com/1a2tygd.png[/t]

A pic of my actual machine;
[t]http://i.imgur.com/waCLgJf.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]

Not bashing on you, but I find it to be pretty funny how popular Kali became since Mr robot started. It is a fantastic and convenient distro though.

Also, you build that malware from scratch or a base?

[frankpetrov]

So I wanna upgrade the cpus in my servers (PE 2900 III). they're currently E5335's. According to ark, they're compatible with both LGA771 and PLGA771. that's the difference between the two? from what I can tell, the best upgrade i could get would be X5450?