What's on your Server/VPS/Dedi

JonRushton

JonRushton

JonRushton

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Hey all,

Just curious what kind of services you all run on your internet/cloud based servers?

Specifically, I'm trying to fill the remaining resources of a VPS I picked up cheap. It's a 4 vCore, 4gb RAM, 100gb SSD VPS for £10.50ppm, which is currently running a small website, a teamspeak 3 server and a minecraft server for a couple of people tops.

So I'm mainly curious what kind of services you are running on your cloud based servers, but also interested to see what kind of services you run on local/home based servers too.

For my home setup, I have an AMD 6-core 16gb ram, 9TB storage (using StableBit DrivePool) running server 2012, running a few Virtualbox VMs for media serving around the house to XBMC (refuse to call it Kodi for a while!) and also serving my Steam library using Steam Streaming to the same XBMC boxes.

Jon
 
My FreeNAS server runs on a 3.6 ghz quad core, 16GB of ECC RAM with 12TB of raw disk space. Uses ZFS and runs in RAIDZ2 so I get 8TB with 2 disk redundancy.

My ESXi server is a 3.4 ghz quad core with 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD and runs:

- Server 2012R2 - A general machine I can remote into/manage and do stuff on
- Windows 7 - HTPC with XBMC running that's hooked into my TV via physical video card and PCI-E passthru. This also has a wireless keyboard/touchpad passed through to it.
- Server 2012R2 for my Minecraft servers (run about 3/4 at any one time, a website, and TS3

All backups of VMs are dumped to freenas, as well as all multimedia data, and client backups.

ESXi has the Freenas server as an iscsi target in case I need mass storage on the VM's
 
M3G4UK said:
Jon, may I ask where you got that offer from? That's pretty good!!
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Kimisurf do some pretty affordable Dedi servers.

I've got a 2vCPU, 2GB RAM,25GB RAID10 VPS which serves email, web hosting, cloud and offsite backup for important data.

I've then got a Debian based home server (FX4100,12GB Ram, 60GB SSD os, 3x1TB) which provides ZFS based NAS, Sickbeard,CouchPotato, MySQL for XBMC and VirtualBox for testing
 
I used to run quite a lot of servers on my old dedicated - I got a deal for unlimited gigabit ages back at a very good price - ran COD4, quake 2/3, left 4 dead, trackmania nations forever, counter strike, minecraft and 1-2 other game servers for a bit (not all at the same time). All I have now is some basic web hosting as I'm not really into gaming as much as I used to be.

EDIT: Also ran an IRC server on there and backup services for a couple of IRC networks.

Started with a dual core P4 IIRC (would have to double check that) and by the time I cancelled was running a dual CPU Xeon 5440 setup. Lets just say it wasn't £10 a month heh.

All I really have at home at the moment is a QNAP TS-412 with a couple of 500GB drives in RAID1.


EDIT: Original specs lol:

Dell PowerEdge / Intel Pentium 4 630 - 3.0GHz, 2Mb cache (HyperThreading) / 512Mb DDR2 ECC SDRAM / 1x 80GB 7200rpm SATA / 1000Mbit Unmetered Connection

Was a long time ago.
 
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Gammawolf said:
My FreeNAS server runs on a 3.6 ghz quad core, 16GB of ECC RAM with 12TB of raw disk space. Uses ZFS and runs in RAIDZ2 so I get 8TB with 2 disk redundancy.

My ESXi server is a 3.4 ghz quad core with 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD and runs:

- Server 2012R2 - A general machine I can remote into/manage and do stuff on
- Windows 7 - HTPC with XBMC running that's hooked into my TV via physical video card and PCI-E passthru. This also has a wireless keyboard/touchpad passed through to it.
- Server 2012R2 for my Minecraft servers (run about 3/4 at any one time, a website, and TS3

All backups of VMs are dumped to freenas, as well as all multimedia data, and client backups.

ESXi has the Freenas server as an iscsi target in case I need mass storage on the VM's
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How have you got the keyboard/touchpad passed through on ESXi? ESXi 5.5 didn't seem to want me to pass through any controllers so I use Xenserver because that allows me to pass through the ports!
 
BlizzardX said:
How have you got the keyboard/touchpad passed through on ESXi? ESXi 5.5 didn't seem to want me to pass through any controllers so I use Xenserver because that allows me to pass through the ports!
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The keyboard / touchpad is an all in one wireless USB device, i had to buy a cheap USB pci-e card which i just passed the entire thing to the VM. I'm on esxi 5.5, although not the latest patch level
 
Gammawolf said:
The keyboard / touchpad is an all in one wireless USB device, i had to buy a cheap USB pci-e card which i just passed the entire thing to the VM. I'm on esxi 5.5, although not the latest patch level
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I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago, just pondering ideas regarding passing hardware through to esxi, and came up with a master plan to have my home cinema client & server, and a gaming rig running steam os (once it's released properly) on a single high spec machine.

Would it allow multiple gfx cards passing a different one to each VM? if so, I can see a long term project on the horizon :D
 
Yeah it does. I've always had issues with ESXi as my hardware doesn't support enough msi-x vectors to passthrough in ESXi but Xenserver (xenserver is completely free though) works fine, but ultimately they both provide passthrough capability and I have virtualised a number of PCs that I would normally use.

My 2015 goal is to complete my star cable wiring around the house with USB/HDMI ports and run usb and hdmi from my central server cupboard to each room as required.
 
Thanks for the vps discount code. Picked up the same VPS as you and spent the past 24 hours migrating a website to it. Runs much quicker than my old web only host and only marginally more money.

Real learning curve since I don't understand linux, sql, basically everything lol. Probably full of security holes.
 
Do people actually use VPS for things like downloading media and streaming IE plex to where ever you are?

I dont really see the need for me to go VPS, as I have an ESX server at my rents house which is in the converted garage, its not an energy sucking beast but gives good performance, high end Wolfdale chip and can take 16GB ram with options for Quad core, but not needed it, 80/20 WAN link and I have a dedicated firewall and Cisco router.

Price seems to be coming down quite rapidly though
 
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I think for £10 a month bhosts vps is great value. Even a low power computer will use something in that ballpark a month in electricity at a guess.

I was paying £72 a year for web hosting for some family businesses with 123. The vps is £92 paying yearly so for an extra £20 I can run owncloud, saving myself paying for onedrive and will move my team speak server there too when it expires so I will actually save money.

One of the websites is a Drupal cms and the load times were terrible, like 10secs initially with 123. It seems much quicker now which was the reason why I was looking around.

Admittedly the driving force behind it was to get something to play around with and learn. Plus I'll charge my family members for it anyway for their websites :)
 
I literally have Minecraft, Teamspeak and a basic website running, not much, but runs great. I'm always messing with linux to self-teach.

Not sure i'd want my media in the cloud, that is still on my home server (bt infinity, so works a treat)

Scotty, make sure you enable firewall, ufw is the easiest method if you're on Debian / Ubuntu based. Make sure you allow port 22 before you enable though :)
 
I built my server to host Teamspeak 3 for my gaming community, and run the odd dedicated game server such as chivalry , mincraft and UT , I also host certain files "media" that we aren't legally aloud to host via other services

Athlon 5150
4GB TG 1600mhz
gigabyte AM1 board
2TB WD Red
500w PSU
 
£10/month was too cheap to resist, so I've signed up for one with BHost. Plan is to use it for a VPN, a little webhosting, offsite backup for a few (non-sensitive) files, and whatever else I come up with for tinkering.
 
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