Hey everyone,

I've setup an NFS export on the Isilon and created a mount point nfsv3 on a Linux server. I have a local Linux user bob who I gave ownership chown -R bob:bob to the directory with 775 permission, however bob gets access denied when he tries to touch a file. I've been reading around that you must have the UID/GUID the same on the client and server (Isilon). Does that mean I need to create a bob user and a bob group on the Isilon with the same UID/GUID (that's on the Linux client) to allow him to write? Please help.

I have a Proliant DL360p Gen8 in my room hosting a few Ark Survival Ascended servers. And lately I have been hearing the fans speed up from time to time for a few seconds. Wasn't doing it for the last 8 months and within the last few weeks it started doing it. I don't know if it's setting I changed but I don't see how they would affect make it do what it's doing. Ark suggest 1 thread so I turned off the threading. Then I set affinitys for each server. I have Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz. 2 10 cores in it. Just cleaned off the CPU/Heatsink and reapplied paste. And after firing it up I heard it about 5 minutes later speed up fans. CPUs at 40C/104F. Fans 1 through 4 say 19% and 5 through 8 say 29%. One of the fans are new in the 5 through 8 area cause on failed.

Earlier when I looked CPU 2 was running 10 degrees hotter than CPU 1. Fans 1 through 4 are the side that CPU 2 is on. Running hot but the fans running slower. Could another fan be starting to fail? It told me the last time when one on failing but nothing yet about a failing fan. Or one of the servers affinitys loading up a CPU and causing a fan spin up from time to time. Intake says 24C/75F.

Oh before I redid the paste. The heatsink on CPU 2 was really warm. But the heatsink on CPU 1 I could barely feel the warmth.

Any advice for me here?

My husband's father, who owned a photography business for decades, recently passed. We're now working to digitize all his work - both from scanning as well as downloading off old hard drives. This work is obviously very important to the family and so we're looking for a way to host it in a safe way that ideally, everyone in the family can access. It's A LOT of photography - we don't know the full extent but assuming multiple terabytes. Looking for a cost effective, reliable option for long term (in perpetuity) hosting.

We're completely at a loss of where to start. Any ideas?

Hello, Does anyone have experience with any carriers on moving a palette of expensive equipment? Need to move a large amount, strict timeline, and done properly.

Thanks

Have a little project that will involve 1 U servers being installed in 4U vertical wall mounts. I need to just have a rack mounted server console (keyboard, monitor, track pad) installed with it. The use of this will be very limited, if at all; but I just can't seem to find a vendor that has a vertical rack server console? Has anyone ever found one?

Hey everyone,

I’ve got a Dell R520 server that I hadn’t used for a few months, and now it’s not recognizing any hard disks. All the cables are connected properly, the green lights are on, and there aren’t any error signs. I’ve tried all of the basic stuff, but no matter what I do the server doesn’t recognize the disks. Could anyone help please?

I have provisioned two Compute Server, what tools do you use to stress test the CPU GPU Memory and Network, benchmark them and generate a report based on it…

So I recently bought this used server (Dell Poweredge T140 - xeon E-2124 - 16GB RAM - Dell H330 that I flashed to HBA/IT mode), planning to start out with TrueNAS

Original RAM (2x 8GB), works fine

My thought was, since I am going to run RAM eating TrueNAS: used RAM is relatively cheap, lets upgrade it.

So I bought 4 of these

And whatever I do, (1stick, 2 sticks or 4 sticks) I keep getting the following error message when I boot the system.

oh boi

Am I stupid and bought incompatible RAM? If i read the spec sheet of the T140 correctly it should support these RAM sticks however.. see page 16 & 17 in the link: https://i.dell.com/sites/csdocuments/Product_Docs/en/poweredge-t140-tech-guide.pdf

So am I doing something wrong or?

Hi guys and gals. I have a curious questions for anyone who’s knowledgable about computer servers and their cabinets. I am a woodworker and have been commissioned to build a custom server cabinet. Since beginning to work on this project I have come to realize that these custom server cabinets might be something I ought to consider making more of. So my question for you guys is, what would you say is a good, general, roundabout number of units that would appeal to most users. In other words if I was to just make a few cabinets and then want to put them up in my Etsy page, is there a number of units that might appeal to more people. Does the average server owner need 20 units, 3 units, etc. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

What is the meaning of this shorter door? Its on a Dell rack and it can be switched, so the hole is on top or bottom

Hi, I am trying to build a NAS on budget to host a cloud, movies and maybe a few gaming servers and a homelab i recently found a gaming pc with the following specs

• i7-4770K 3.5 GHz
• 16 GB ram DDR3
• 760ti

Would this be enough for my project?

My budget is 500 AED(136 USD) This costs about 300 AED(80 USD)

Hi!

My business is needing an upgrade asap

I'm Australia based, small local newsagency with post office (separate POS). We are having issues with our current setup crashing and I am looking to upgrade but don't know the best place to start and if I should just update some components or do a full refresh.

The computer in our back office supports two customer facing POS machines. We use POS Browser software for it, when the office PC runs well the others are fine, but it is not at the moment and so they're crashing and stalling every other transaction.

The PC uses an Intel S3420GP motherboard with Xeon x3470 with 1x8GB RAM

The issue currently I'm seeing is the memory maxing out while CPU usage remains low, so I am in the process of locating some new RAM asap.

Any advice would be helpful, thank you.

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Hello, I have a question. I am going to purchase a server and want to create multiple VM's(about 20 Windows 10 machines). On this server I would also want to create a NAS for network drivers. For backup I would also like to configure a way to backup the NAS on this server with something like Raid 1(2 identical drives mirroring each other). For something like this what OS would you recommend? This is the server I am purchasing for context.

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I’m looking to collapse 2 networks into 1. I’m basically starting from a scratch. I’m planning on having 2 DCs with Ad running on them locally. We need too much infrastructure upgrades to move to the cloud now. Definitely something we will do in the future. Does anyone have any suggestions on several hardware. They will not be used as storage servers or print servers. Possibly dns. The budget is tight 10-12k. I’m looking at dell power edge servers. Will this work? Any constraints? Thanks

I'm setting up a server for work. I've not done this before, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm overlooking something simple. I'm trying to update the BIOS of the server, and from what I've gathered I need to go through IDRAC to do so.

I followed the Dell support guide for setting up and configuring IDRAC, and I enabled DHCP. When I have my LAN cable plugged into the regular port, I get an IP assigned to the server, and I am able to access VMware through my browser. However, when I plug the LAN cable into the IDRAC port, the IP adress sits on 0.0.0.0 for a while, it briefly switches to the IP it normally assigns to the machine, then after a moment or two it goes back to 0.0.0.0, then after another moment it switches to 169.254.xx.xx. I read online that the default IP for IDRAC is 198.168.0.120, but when I attempt to go to that IP I get nothing.

I have NIC enabled, set to dedicated, auto negotiation on, DRAC on DNS disabled, IPv4 and DHCP enabled. Use DHCP to obtain DNS disabled. IPv6 and DCHP enabled.

I have seen a YouTube video who suggest using YouTube server to save cost using YouTube api or something

I want to make player look like it hasn't come from YouTube for obvious reasons

Is it a way to make such a customize player such that It doesn't look like the server is from YouTube and client cannot get video link easily ( I might consider making paywall for content ) . Is it possible to do that, which lib or framework to use to achieve that

Hey new to this subreddit, need some feedback before I go ahead and purchase all the parts.
I'm coming from a 2012 crap box that I've been using as a server for a long time that's been barely coping for years.

Hard requirements:

• Needs to be an intel windows environment due to old game server requirements

My use active use cases:

• Needs 24/7 up time, have a uninterruptable power supply ready for it.
• Game server hosting, at all times minimum 2 game servers
• Website made in React/NextJS, is hit 5000-20000 times daily
• MSSQL Database that supports the above website
• FTP Server that is used locally
• Occasional scraping bots

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I'd rather not spend more then $2000 USD, but not completely opposed if the suggestions merit enough benefit

Hi everyone! I’m looking for advice on the most cost-effective server setup for an app I recently developed and deployed on Heroku. Here’s what it does:

• App Overview: The app is a simple tool that users can log into through a web interface. Once logged in, users start an automation that opens a browser session where it performs two clicks per hour. This automation is crucial to the app’s functionality, so it needs to keep the browser session active to avoid logging users out.
• Concurrency Needs: I’m estimating about 5,000 users, with around 3,000 active nearly 24/7. This means I’ll have roughly 3,000 concurrent browser sessions

If anyone has experience with high-concurrency automation setups or knows of other cost-effective options for long-running browser sessions, I’d really appreciate your input!

A message from Microsoft Vendor:- We are excited to inform you that Microsoft will be launching Windows Server 2025 in Novermber 2024. Stay tuned for advanced security features, improved performance, and seamless integration capabilities. There would be 12% to 14% hike in prices of Windows server 2025 and its Cal.

I am looking in to a good and cheap server. Any info??

Need a server for my small business of around 10 people will be using it to host a domain and possibly quickbooks in the future or maybe buying a separate server for hosting Quickbooks later whatever y’all recommend will be appreciated thank you

So basically I'm trying to achieve a service where you can post video/images along with text.

But, by doing that if a lot of users upload large file all the server get slow.

So i was thinking for a way were on posting i send two requests, one to text server and other one to media server. The "problem" with this approach is how to the name the files that uploaded so i can save there name in the text server.

For example:

Text server save :

id:5, text: 'hello world', media:'abc.mp4'

Media server save:

name:'abc.mp4'

How the text server will know the name that get saved in the media server so I could link them without trusting the client. Of course I just generate random name in the client and save that name in the text server but if the user tamper with that name(never trust the use principle)?

Hello I have a fun project that I am trying to figure out.

At the moment, I have 2 pc's in a production hall for CAD viewing. The current problems are that the pc's get really dirty (they are AIO's). To solve this problem, I was planning to get thin/zero clients and one corresponding server that can handle 8 and possible more (max 20) users. I have Ethernet cables running to a server room from all workspaces.

In my dive I landed on Proxmox server and thin clients that can connect to the server. CAD viewing requires a fast CPU for loading and GPU for the start of rendering and some adjustments to the 3D model. All the clients won't be using all the resources at the same time (excluding loaded models on ram). 8 or more VMs with all windows seems to be very intensive. So I saw it was possible could use FreeCAD on a Linux system. I just don't exactly know what hardware and software I should use in my situation.

Thanks for reading, I would love some advice and/or experiences :)

I've built a new PC/Server and i've been attempting to install windows server 2022 on it using a usb bootable flashdrive.

I have tried formating two USB Drive using Rufus as there seems to be no media creation tool for windows server 2022. I've tried some suggestions such as trying different usb ports, reformating the drives multiple times and redownloading the ISO from the micrsoft website and then reformatting again. Nothing has worked so far

After the first step of installation, selecting a language then next it gives a few options of which windows server version to choose: window server core / windows server desktop / windows datacenter / windows datacenter desktop. Selecting any of these and clicking Next always gives the same message "Windows cannot find the microsoft software license terms. make sure the installation sources are valid and restart the installation".

I have tried the ISO of windows 10 and it appears to install no problem letting me proceed for the installation steps. Both my USB Drives appear to be working and they should, literally just bought them both.

I've searched google and everyone talks about this error and refers to virtual machines but im doing it on a physical computer. I'm completely lost on how to proceed and any help will be greatly appreciated!

Hello there, as i said in the Title i am curios what you think will be a server for my Business.

Its a small Company with only 4 Computers running together and on the server that i have right now are mostly the Microsoft office applications, Mail‘s and our Work program Hapak (for invoices, Quotations etc.).

I am asking because the IT Company that i have right now, dont really want to give me any details on the server that they want to sell me and in the history that we had together there were some problems (like actually one of my PCs didnt had an Antivirus program, the Data Protection from the Computers were on the Main Harddrive on the same Computer etc.)

The only Info from the server itself that i got is:

-64gb ram -AMD Ryzen -4tb SSD Brutto / 2tb SSD Netto (The 4TB are what is the complete Storagespace with Backup and the 2TB is what i can use to store my daily Data) -Virtualization: Proxmox -OS: Windows server 2022 -User CAL for windows Server 2022 (5 users)

I know and understand that it is difficult to say what „you should get“ with Computers and Server etc. because everybody has its own predicies and needs. But maybe some of you can help me a little bit out here.

Thank you for reading so far.

Edit: I need the new server also just for Mails, Microsoft office and the work Program.

The old server has two HDD‘s with 258gb each.

I have just got a new ibm x3650 m4 and I needed to swap out the cmos battery.

But after installing the new battery the server just hangs on the “system initialising” screen with the text.

“(0x16) IMM Status: flash manager ready”

Does this mean I need to reinstall the bios, or is the computer completely dead.

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