Here's how my network is setup: 1st floor: Internet company's router - (Primary Router) Ground Floor: TP Link AX 73 - (Secondary router)

The primary router has a LAN cable running from one of the LAN ports to the WAN port of the secondary router.

The secondary router has the NAS connected to it over LAN.

The reason for this setup is: The Secondary router is a superior router and has a better CPU as well so I want to share the processing load between the two routers instead of using it in a LAN to LAN configuration and have the primary router take on the load of all the devices in the household (About 40 or so).

The problem I am facing is I am unable to access the NAS when my phone is connected to the Primary router.

How do I get around this issue?

Good morning all I need some help figuring out how to build a new server. I am experienced with building a gaming PC, but I know server/NAS builds don't necessarily use the same hardware.

I have been in the home server game for a decade plus. My old machine is currently dying (not sure if it is the motherboard or cpu) and I am looking to replace it. I am running unraid with the standard ARR setup with plex, home assistant, and paperless. I want to add the ability to host some multiplayer games such as 7 days to die, and the like to play with friends.

I am currently running an old i7 860, with 16G of memory. It is running an array of 4HD+1 parity drive, and 2 caches each with 2 drives each. So in total 9 drives.

I would like to end up having unraid running inside of proxmox to give myself some flexability, and the ability to learn proxmox.

What CPU/MB/RAM combo when ya'll recommend. Bonus points for a nice case that will allow me to easily change out drives.

Thanks in advance.

So im going to have my own house built and im planning on having a server room in the basement alongside a game room for my console collection and some storage for spare electronics. Im thinking about making that entire section a faraday room to protect my devices and stuff from EMPs. Has anyone here done something like that before and has advice on how to properly do that?

I recently bought an apartment and I'm re-doing basically everything in the interior.

I've already designed for cabling the whole apartment so that every room has a RJ45 connection. Is there anything else- in the plan or remodeling I have to think of?

Ideally, I want to have:

• a small media server
• a mesh wifi network to have good connections in all rooms
• (?) possibly a 2nd network with incoming public (personal webpage hosting, etc)

Hello everyone, I posted this on r/homelabs last night as well, but wanted to see what help I could get from here too.

I'm a relatively new college graduate, about a year almost 2 out. I'm a software dev, and was never exposed to networking, infrastructure, or anything related during college sadly. (They had maybe 1 elective for networking and 1 for cyber security.) At work, I recently got switched to a much larger, long running project, and was exposed to infrastructure set up, like ci/cd tools, for the first time. As well as working mainly in a Linux environment for the first time too, done basics before but nothing like now. I was really interested in learning more about how a lot of this works, and thought it would be fun to set up my own home server, haha!

I don't really know where to begin, but let me describe my needs/interests and my current situation to help. I want to learn more about systems engineering as well as sys admin work, but also would love a place to work on personal projects. (I developed web apps at work until now.) Here's what I would like to do and learn:

1. I would like to set up a web server where I could deploy web apps, mainly personal projects to learn, or stuff for me and friends.

2. Databases for my various web apps, deployments, and other experiments.

3. I hope to learn about sys admin work and networking through this as well. (I'll be in your care in the future for guidance, haha)

4. Me and my friends like to play games, so setting up a game server every so often would be a lot of fun too. (And we're avid WoW fans who have been out of the loop for a while due to being too busy throughout college, as well as all being tech people and we're interested in playing with setting up a private WoW server. If anyone knows again about that we would be very grateful too)

5. Setting up Plex or network storage would be cool too, as I'm a bit of a data hoarder, but never had the know how to do anything about it.

I'm still living in an apartment, but part of the reason I wanted to start now was because me and my girlfriend are finally moving into a bigger apartment where I finally get my own room (Woo!). So I won't get any complaints now. (as long as I don't mess with the wifi too often)

What do I need to get started that would meet my needs? How do I build a server? I might have a few old parts somewhere, but worry they won't really fit my needs. Money isn't a big issue, but I still have my college mindset of trying to spend as little as possible, haha.

I wanted to reach out here, and r/homelabs, to get started rather than deep diving by myself and buying a whole bunch of wrong things, or going way overboard at the start, haha, so anything you guys have to help introduce/guide/teach me is very much appreciated. I look forward to posting here again with updates and questions.

Hey guys. I was just given a threadripper 3975wx and gigabyte wrx89 su-8 mobo with 6x 16gb vengeance ddr4 and 2x 64gb vengeance ddr4 ram for free.

I have a plex server and my companies storage guru recommended using a SuperMicro 4ru 847. My company has these thst I can grab.

They are fully.built. I don't have actual specs at this time but just wondering a few things.

1. Threadripper build with a 1080 better then dual cpu build it comes with?

2. What will it cost roughly per month for the 847 to be run I will have 10-15x 8tb - 12TB 3.5 SAS HDD's installed.

3. Open to other suggestions also I may not have though of.

The title basically tells it already: I'm looking for some mounting brackets for my HDD/SSD cage. Would be open for some thoughts that could work. On each side, there are a few fixing holes around 11.5mm apart in vertical. You can see this in the second picture.

Preferably of course a premade bracket that I would be repurposing, if possible.

I know, this cage is normally intended to be mounted in a rack, but that's it.

Vertical distance between mounting holes: 11.5mm
Horizontal distance: around 80mm
Distance grid to mount the bracket in the front: 25mm

The exact model number of the cage is ToughArmor MB924IP-B.

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So I thought about using my old gaming pc from 2015 as a home server for some casual tasks as: Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, some Docker containers and downloading content directly on the nas.

The specs of my old pc are:

Intel Pentium G4560
MSI H110M PRO-D
8GB Ram
BeQuiet Power 8 400W

Are the specs enough to run all the applications, stream movies/shows from plex on multiple clients, transcode with Tdarr and download content?

I have this old pc which has only one purpose at the moment being a storage device for childhood photos/videos etc, and I want to host a mc server off of it for me and some friends, I want to know how I can do this without clearing any data off the drive, there’s about 100gb left (250 gb) and it has a second gen core i5 with 8gb ram. I have an old pc with a fried psu, and should I just buy a new psu instead or give running it on the working pc a go.

Hi all,

I've got an old PowerEdge 710 that I'm thinking of parting with. I know, it's a total fossil, but I hate to just scrap it because when I last ran it it worked fine. Does anyone have any recommendations, either regarding a use for it, selling it cheaply, or giving it to someone who's going to have a use for it?

If you're in the area of South Central PA and you find yourself strongly wishing to acquire a piece of cutting edge technology straight from the 2000's, shoot me a DM!

Thank you all in advance!

As per the title really. I have been gifted a Lenovo D1212 disk shelf and want to reduce the fan speeds. I have searched online but I couldn’t find anything. Any help is appreciated.

Just added the Dell Optiplex (motioneye server) today, which fits surprisingly well in between the ProLiant (OMV + Docker for internal services) and the Celsius (Debian and Docker for Web reachable services). What's missing? A ussf thinkcenter ontop of the Optiplex?

Don't mind the cables. I call it decorative chaos, contributing to the universes entropy.

Hi, I want a HomeServer, where I can just do the basic stuff like put some files on it but I also wanna host a ark server on it. The server have to run smooth but i also have a budget about 300€. What CPU would u suggest?

Hi all. I am thinking of putting an LSI 9207-8i in a desktop installed in a Supermicro x10slm-f mb. Since this isn't a server chassis and doesn't have it's airflow, I am planning to add a 40mm x 40mm x 20mm Noctua fan on top of the fins to keep it cool. I've read that without active cooling the card would get extremely hot so the fan continuously operating will be critical. As an aside, would it be better to just use a pcie slot cooler instead?

Either way, is there a way I can have the machine shut itself down if the mb sensor detects that this fan is spinning below the low threshold set in IPMI?

Hello! This is my home server. I'm looking to put a UPS to keep it on 24/7. It currently consumes an average of 450/550 watts. Ideas?

Hey everyone,

I found a Dell PowerEdge R610 Server for $175, but it only comes with 6GB of RAM. I want to setup my home-sever with k8s and some proxmox vms. Do you think this is a good deal? I'm not too familiar with server prices, so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi guys, I want to create my first server. I want to store my photos and videos on it but I'm looking some recomandations for software and hardware.

For software I want to auto backup over the internet from phone (android and iOS) with multiple users and to backup remotely, to not be at same network.

For hardware I want to use a PC and Nas hdd.

Can you give me recomandations for software and hardware drives?

Thank you!

Hello. I may have to do some home servers for some friends. This can be a media playback and or ip camera or more.

I am looking for a way that I can automate the software installation (or Linux os installation even) to make my work easier. Perhaps a script that can do this but I don't know where to start even which tool to use if any. I want to know what are my options.

Please advise me and thank you.

Hello everyone,

around 2 years ago i bought a Rpi4 and i currently have a few containers running on it (nginx proxy manager, portainer, mariadb, phpmyadmin and wireguard). Because i love tinkering around and i have a few things i wanna do next (nextcloud jellyfin etc) im just wondering what the best way of implementing the pi5 would be. Ive looked into it a little bit but honestly all the paths i could go down are a little overwhelming.

Ive read about kubernetes, k3s and docker swarm, but im still wondering if thats not a little overkill or overcomplicated even and if i should just keep running plain docker containers and work my way around having 2 pis

what do u guys think?

Hey! First of all just wanted to say that I'm pretty new to this and really only have experience with buying and building gaming rigs. I was considering getting a mid tower build for like 500$ to have a server with enough space for extra drives.

After doing some research it seems that people tend to recommend mini-PCs for a first time server. If I understand correctly the appeal is lower power draw and less heat/noise. However anything with a N100 would cost me 400-500$ here and ordering from the US would also be expensive. On market places people are also trying to sell some weird builds for the same price as brand new sometimes.

A DeskMini X300 build for example would cost me around 500$. My only concern then is that I would need a seperate system down the line or a mid tower anyway if I wanted more disks for storage.

What do you guys think about two systems vs one or any other thoughts for a first time build? I guess with two systems you can have a server with low power draw and then a seperate super barebones system for drives. It just seems to me that I might as well just get something that can fit a decent number of disks if I'm gonna buy something in the first place. Despite maybe the higher power draw.

Maybe I'm just completely out of my depth here but thanks in advance for the patience.

Between the WD Blue SN580, Teamgroup Z44A5 and teamgroup mp44L, both 500GB, which one should I choose? I'll primarily use it for the OS drive, and they're also close in price. Do you have any previous experience with these drives, and would you recommend them? If, for example, I were to slightly increase the price, I can get the WD Black SN770. Speed isn't the main factor for me; what I really prioritize is the longevity and durability of the drive. What do you think?

I am looking to get some assistance with putting together my first NAS with an older gaming PC I still have lying around.

I am looking to make it as small as I can while using as many parts as I can from my old PC. I was thinking of something that could hold 4 Drives and be set up in Raid 10. I'm not sure how much actually storage I'll need but I'd rather get more than less.

I am looking to start running plex, minecraft server, and have enough storage to run backups. I am open to all suggestions and looking to put this together over the next couple weekends.

Here is my PC specs starting out:

CPU: Intel i-5 8600k MOBO: Gigabyte H370M D3H GPU: Asus Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 Graphic Card - 4 GB GDDR5 RAM: 8 GB DDR4 SSD: Kingston 120 GB Hard Drive: 1 TB WD BLUE 7200 RPM Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart Pro 75W 80+ Bronze

Hi all, I have an hdd that I want to use as a back up drive so I can use it as a restore point if my SSD in my home server dies. Through googling I found some solutions like rsync but I'm not sure if it can do everything I was looking for.

What I would like is a solution that does that takes backups when there's a difference between the current backup (my incremental with versioning or the likes) and once the hhd is too full to store fresh backups deletes the oldest backup on the disk.

Is there something out there that's doing this?

hi! Cross posting from r/minecraft bc I didn't get a reply there. I'm having trouble connecting to my LAN server.

1. Host is a PC with 1.20.6, LAN server has been played on before. I allowed Java through this firewall and marked the network as home
2. Connection device is a SteamDeck on Prism 1.20.6, again has played on this server. It's for sure connected to the same Wifi
3. I'm getting connection errors when I try to join
4. it works when I turn off Windows Firewall on the host (but Java is already allowed)

can connect to non-LAN servers on the Deck, and direct connection didn't work either for this server.

what else might I need to check? thank you and lmk if any more info is needed!!!

TLDR: I updated the BIOS on my SuperMicro motherboard and am now unable to enter the BIOS setup menu, boot menu, or UEFI Shell. Any troubleshooting tips?

Explanation: I recently ordered a SuperMicro X11SCA-F motherboard on eBay (intending to build a server/NAS) and decided to upgrade the BIOS. I read the warnings on the SuperMicro website warning users to only update the BIOS if necessary... I accepted the risk. (I wanted to update the BIOS because the board displayed a Chinese company boot logo and I just wanted to make sure that the BIOS was updated with legitimate software.)

Here is the procedure I followed to update the BIOS (as instructed by SuperMicro):

1. Downloaded the appropriate files from the SuperMicro website
2. Extracted the files and copied to an empty flashdrive (FAT32)
3. Inserted the flashdrive into the onboard USB port (USB9)
4. Entered the UEFI Shell
   1. fs0:
   2. dir
   3. flash.nsh <BIOS FILE>
5. Followed the on-screen prompts (was not prompted to change any jumpers)
6. Restarted board when prompted
7. Update seemed to complete successfully
8. UEFI Shell hung after update, so I then power-cycled the PSU

After updating, I am now unable to enter the BIOS setup menu, the boot menu, and the UEFI shell. During boot, the SuperMicro logo comes up on a white screen. The board steps through various boot steps and pulls up the prompt for entering the BIOS (hit <DEL> for BIOS, <F11> for boot menu, etc.). Hitting any of the appropriate keys on the keyboard results in the video output from the motherboard going blank/shutting off.

Hardware Installed:

• Intel Xeon E-2146G
• 2x16 GB ECC UDIMM (Micron)
• 2x HP SSD EX900 Plus M.2 drives

What I Have Tried:

1. I have reset CMOS (removed battery and shorted JBT1) multiple times
2. I have attempted to use BIOS recovery mode (no success)

I am able to access the IPMI interface. This board is not able to update BIOS from IPMI. I am also able to successfully boot into a Debian live USB (which I used to reset the IPMI user configs).

Any thoughts on what I can do to get back into the BIOS setup menu or UEFI shell? I'm thinking the board is now stuck in legacy BIOS mode (hence no UEFI Shell).

Edit: After resetting IPMI to factory defaults using Debian, I rebooted the board and was able to pull up the BIOS screen. Not sure why that is…

Hi, I'm diving into building my first NAS, but the sheer number of choices is overwhelming! To simplify things, I've chosen the Fractal Node 804 case and an Intel CPU (without a dedicated graphics card).

Could you recommend a good motherboard for this setup?

Additionally, I'm interested in using NVMe drives for caching to minimize hard drive spin-up time.

Been running a very sloppy put together sever from my old gaming rig and it seems like my storage drive on it is starting to fail.

Time for some upgrades! Need to keep low budget for now, thinking $300-$400 absolute max for right now. Ideally, slowly swap out parts over time rather than one big purchase of parts right now. So anything beyond that 300-400 budget is a longer term plan. Priority on storage since the 1.5TB drive is failing.

Here is the current rig: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cV88BL

Looking for any recommendations on what should be prioritized for upgrade from current bones. Anything to remove, software changes, of course the drives, etc.

Currently it's used for a decent handful of movies and shows using Plex. Backup of important files/docs/photos.

I would like the option to expand that capability to outside the house to friends/family. Additionally, if possible to host some basic game servers on it for friends. Really basic ones like Terraria, Minecraft (I don't even play it, but they do), maybe Risk of Rain 2 but never even knew about servers for that. More importantly, being able to host a Foundry VTT server for online D&D.

In-vision 2x10TB drives for redundant storage. While the small boot drive SSD seems fine still, I imagine it's on the way out at some point soon. Should I replace that too? And then I have been on Windows, but would be open to going another way. Just have no experience with Linux or whatever else to run the system. I also feel like power draw currently has been high since I started letting it run more regularly. Figure that could be reduced?