Home Server Hosting Hardware - What Should You Buy And Why?
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- You'd love to host a gaming server or website at your house but what hardware do you need to use? In this video, I will give you some tips you need to know to pick the right hardware to host a server at home. And then I will give you some pointers on where to find that hardware for a good deal. You may not even need a "server" at all! I used to run half a dozen websites on a single Raspberry Pi a few years ago. #homehosting #homeserver #serverhosting
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Finally! I have been looking for this type of video series for days! Thank you for the great content!
You are welcome, Seth. I hope to put out another video soon in this series. Thanks for watching and stay tuned!
I considered getting a rack-mounted server for home use, mainly for continued learning & testing for my job. Technology's always evolving. What changed my mind was power usage (high wattage), fan noise, and cooling. Especially, if planning to run it 24x7. My home office is already 3 - 4 degrees F warmer than the rest of the house just using a desktop, laptop, stereo, and TV. My home power bill would likely go up $30+ a month just running the server (assuming running 24x7). More if I need to factor in extra cooling (ie. Air-conditioning) to keep the room temperature reasonable.
I have a Synology NAS and love it. Had it about 3 years now. A little bit of an up-front cost, though. I suppose it could be an option for light workloads (lower power usage, not noisy, and cooling concerns are negligible). I've tinkered with the Virtual Machine Manager, but never tried running a web server on it though.
Yes, running a big boy server is a big deal. Like you said, it creates heat, it is noisy, and it consumes several hundred Watts around the clock. Like I mentioned in the video, my favorite choice for running websites and low volume mail servers is a simple 1U chassis with an embedded Atom or Celeron processor, a good amount of RAM, and a few laptop hard drives. These are sites that don't run databases or heavy scripts. And mail volume is < 1000 per day. I've been doing this for 15 years and it runs perfect. The J1900 and J4105M options, for example, consume about 10-12W of power, are fanless, and still have respectable processing.
As for the NAS, the one I specified in the video is capable of running a full Windows 2019 Server vm plus Active Directory (via the Synology app), DNS server (via the Synology app), and a Veeam backup server. I deploy these to small businesses under 25 employees and they work great. Specs are very similar to the HP MicroServer Gen10. Hopefully that gives you a sense of scale.
Thank you for the info.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Looking to tackle this project this week. Looking to host my own at home security system, as well as a few terabytes of data on a local network storage, possibly do some virtual machines for gaming and testing linux out for the first time. I appreciate all your help!
You are welcome! Feel free to ask questions here and I'll help if I can or point you in the right direction. Good luck!
This video was very helpful for me I was lenient towards building my own server but this video helped me learn about the “obsolete” server market and managed to go from a 1200$ server I would build myself to 300$
Yeah, you will get SO much more bang for your buck on a surplus or "obsolete" server than you could ever get building something new. And they should still last for many years as they are built with components designed to go much, much longer than regular PC parts.
Old servers are very enegy hungry. I bought a new Xeon based server with cash back so really cheap and it supported the current Esxi for vitualization.
Yes they are! But newer servers aren't really any better.
@@LDSreliance Good to know! I’m trying to determine whether to move my home system to rack mounted hardware or stay with the old “trophies mounted to the wall” model and consumer hardware. If there isn’t much energy efficient rack hardware (an oxymoron?) I guess I’ll be sticking to the latter.
Show us Production Scenarios for shared hosting. Virtualiser, OS, Cpanels, And account managment and payment. Complete software setup, and/or raid etc. Looking forward to next videos. Greetings from EU.
Unfortunately, I don't use any of that. So I probably wouldn't be the person to show that to you. But I'll think of some more info I can share that would be helpful. Thanks!
I've done my nas/ftp home lan server few month ago..n specs? Asus EEPC b202 (atom 1.2ghz, 1gb ram) external sata 3.5" HDD 4TB , Debian with no GUI, nfs share, ftp , torrent server and rsync server automatic backup from other machines :)) 15 Watts max ;)) for me the best and mega cheap. Thanks for share video!
Nice! That is very similar specs to what I run in my 1U server boxes. I used to run the Atom processors but I stepped up to some Celerons for more processing power and the same low energy usage. www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J4105M/#Specification
Thanks for the comment and for watching!
alight, i got you. lets see how this goes
Love this
Thanks!
@@LDSrelianceI make and train ai. What do u do? 😅
A lot of things. IT consulting and online sales.
Great video, I was wondering, when’s the next topic coming out?
Sorry, I am a little behind on my video production. I hope to get another server related video out in January. Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Thanks, I look forward to it.
Hi, when’s the next video going to be posted?
So I am contemplating buying a multiple purpose server, but mainly to create labs. I want to host a couple VM's, some that could get resource intensive like EVE-ng especially if I start turning on all the virtual switches/firewalls/PC's inside of it. In addition I would like to use it as a remote back up site for my laptop/phones. I was also thinking of tinkering with building a website. Do you have any idea of what kind of hardware specs and OS I should be looking for?
I would use Linux but I am biased and comfortable with that OS. If you have never used it before that may not be a good option. But keep in mind that Windows licensing is expensive and you only get one or two licenses for VM's with your OS unless you purchase more. You may also want to consider that NAS that I talked about at the end of the video. It can run multiple VM's no problem (for free) and can run all the other things you listed, too. You could bump up to a higher model if you need more CPU power.
But if you are willing to pay for the Windows and VM licensing, a used server with multiple Xeon processors like I mentioned in the video is your best bet. You can get a server that was top of the line 5 years ago and has the best processors and maxed out RAM for under $400. And it will run almost anything you can possibly host at home without even blinking.
@@LDSreliance Thanks man, I super appreciate the input, honestly I am considering just pouring some hours into linux to learn the syntax, cant be that hard and it seems to be much more versatile and adaptable to any use case. Cheers!!
I would recommend it. Just don't think you will master it any time soon. Learning a basic set of commands to do some simple things is pretty easy. But to become a full blown Linux admin will take years.
WHICH CPU I NEED FOR E-COMMERCE? small business/startup. i want something very energy efficient but which can work as NAS and with home assistant too.
Did not cover my planes but it helped thank you
Planes? You are welcome!
Just checking out your other server videos, I should have watched this video first.
Haha, no worries! Glad you are finding some useful info in here.
thank you and will contact you for help
You are welcome. I will help if I can.
I’m still here, and still wondering when the next video will be released?
I'm behind on video production. What topic would you like to see addressed?
@@LDSreliance I’ll like to know about OS, software, and Cpanel
Hi, I really like your channel. I was wondering, I've seen videos of using old Macs to host a home server network setup. Would that work to also host a website?
Hey thanks! Yes, you can use a Mac to host a website, but you would probably need to install Linux or Windows on it. There may be Mac web server applications out there but I have never heard of one and hardly anyone uses them if there are any.
@@LDSreliance good to learn not for serious stuff :) ubuntu server its easy to start with :) cheers
I want to build a server in the future for the sole purpose of using unreal engine projects with multiple users, so my question is, would it be a matter of just plugging in multiple user by ethernet into the server? so they can all work off the same project? Im new to servers so im not sure how stuff like this works.
The simplest method which is still fairly secure would be to host the server and provide VPN access to your network to each of the other users. You can then share the server on the local network without making it publicly accessible. You could have the server on a separate subnet from the rest of your home network so remote users don't see any of that.
@@LDSreliance ok thanks for the info. Remote access is not something we will need as we work locally in our office.
Ahh ok. That makes it even easier. Just host the project on the server and share it as a resource on the local network. There are numerous ways to accomplish that but I don't know much about Unreal Engine so I can't help there.
@@LDSreliance awesome, thanks for your help, this info has been great!
redundancy, backups, mirrored off-site remote storage (for when the unthinkable happens - fire,flood,...). If you are making money, these are things you should be thinking about as well.
Yes, those are all best practices. I touched on redundancy a little bit in the video.
I need a server for MySQL. It will store about 10tb of data most of it will be pictures. Would you recommend a cloud server or home server. It will be connected to a website for car data
That is a ton of data. You would have to have a really strong internet connection to pull that off.
@@LDSreliance is there any cloud server that you know of, that can handle this ?
Hitting all the things I was stuck on. Good channel.
Thank you! I am glad it helped you.
Hi, I'm currently building a PC right now, the pc I have now isn't the best, even though I paid top dollar for it. I was one of the suckered that bought a pre-built from Dell. It's a Dell G5000 with a 9th or 10th Gen i9. I can't really remember the complete name of the processor, but I was wondering during if you thi k that would be decent enough to run a dedicated server for games like arma 3 or dayz, or anything other game like that?
Yes, that would be plenty as long as it has at least 8GB of RAM. Preferably 16GB. A gaming PC requires a lot more hardware performance than a gaming server does.
How much would be a hardware for hosting 2-3 ark servers? 70 people but obviously like 10-20 people max on each?
I host an entire Ark cluster with all of the maps on a single PC (i7, 32GB RAM) for up to 4 people. So on some real server hardware with dual Xeons and 128GB of RAM you could easily host an entire cluster for 70 people. The bottleneck at that point would be your internet connection. 10-20 would be doable on a 100Mbps up and 100Mbps down connection but for a peak of 70 players I would try to get a gigabit connection.
Hello I have an idea and I was wondering if u could answer my questions to see if this would work so there is a game I use to play zombie raiders beta now my idea is cant I run a server off my pc and connect it to the game through some code? This method was done through mario kart wii but not by a server off a pc hopefully someone can help
I am sure it is possible but that would require some advanced coding.
Any idea what kind of hardware including a motherboard for a dedicated game server at home?
Depends on the game and how many players will be connected and if you are going to use mods, etc. I have hosted Minecraft, 7 Days To Die, Ark, and other servers and they vary wildly. But right now I can host 10-12 Ark servers at the same time on an old gaming PC that I had laying around that has 32GB of RAM, a good CPU, and an SSD.
@@LDSreliance it would be hosting a website, minecraft, fivem, discord bots, rust servers and a mail server all together, I have most of the hardware such as a threadripper as the cpu, but I need to find a good enough motherboard to handle all the power
I don't see why you need any more power than a normal desktop. You don't need a GPU and you won't be overclocking or overvolting anything.
@@LDSreliance it will be for players to join, the only problem is that I won't know how much storage I will need, I have some motherboards in mind but I just need someone who knows their stuff that can sort of direct me where to go for a good game server motherboard or one that has the capability of running them
Unless you are running a high end server I would just stick to gaming PC parts. They will be more than enough for what you listed. Get a basic micro ATX motherboard that has an M.2 slot or two and can handle 64GB of RAM. Then stuff it full of cheap RAM, a fast SSD for the OS, and a good CPU. Unless you have thousands of visitors per day on that website and tens of thousands of emails per day, I think you will be just fine with all of that.
Finally... some good f*ng explanation...
Thanks! I appreciate that. Thanks for watching.
I wanna host my website and my own app, what I need to do or to build/buy?
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 (9th Gen) can I use it with Linux Ubuntu Server?
I'd be shocked if you can't. Their driver page doesn't specifically list Ubuntu but there are tons of Linux and Unix flavors on there so I am 99% sure it will work on Ubuntu.
www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/supportedos/poweredge-2900
@@LDSreliance thank you
Instructions unclear, cockroach is still alive, catastrophic damage to the surrounding area. 😉
Very helpful video, thank you!
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
On another site or channel like this, the person posted he had a nasty nightmare with the Sinology brand.
Interesting. Like it had hardware problems? I have had several myself and deployed a few dozen to customer sites and never had a nightmare but it is certainly possible.
What if it’s a game server, hosting up to 1000 people?
Then you aren't hosting that at home.
@@LDSreliance where do you host it then? 😓
Something like that would be on a very expensive server and would need to be in a data center. Even a server with 100 concurrent players might be too much to have in your home.
@@LDSreliance okay, thank you 🙏
whats the step by step guide?
What do you mean? I don't have a step by step guide.
Loll
6:47 *2x xeon 6 cores, 72Gb ecc ram, 6x 600Gb 10k sas hdd*
An e-commerce of 1000 visitors per day is not so big.
Isn't it an overkill to use this system?
Possibly. Depends on the shopping cart, database, security, and site design. But it isn't so much about the specs of those old, used servers as it is the price (very affordable) and the reliability (built to run 24x7 as opposed to an old laptop or consumer grade pc).
@@LDSreliance
> "Depends on the shopping cart, database, security, and site design."
Ok, and also very important visits duration.
> "built to run 24x7"
Such old server is still reliable to run 24x7?
Yes, visit duration plays a part as well as how many pictures their browser will be downloading (and videos). Also, search functions and other scripts on the website will play a part.
Yes, a 4-5 year old server can still run 24x7 for years. They have redundant power supplies and RAID arrays and those are the two most likely failure points (power supply or hard disk). You may get unlucky and have a motherboard or other component fail but it is less likely than a consumer pc part.
@@LDSreliance According to google, the expected lifespan of servers is "about 3~5 years".
That is what a lot of people think and that is why those servers are being sold used for dirt cheap. But as that next sentence tells you in that same Google search, "This may seem short, but periodic upgrades and part replacements can extend this range to 10+ years." That is what you are buying is a refurbished, tested working unit that still has 5+ years in the tank.
Raspberry Pi everythang
all i want is play psp games with my friends bro
So why are you watching a video on home server hardware?