A home-server is a server, or host, that is based on consumer-only usage and is usually in the architecture of a home network. A home-server will allow clients throughout the home network to connect to and access different data or services. It may also allow external connections.
Questions tagged [home-server]
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How do I SCP from remote machine to local machine when I am outside of my home network?
While I understand how to scp files to and from my server from within my home network, how can I scp a file from my server to my local machine when I am on the outside, say at Starbucks?
While I am able to scp from my local machine to my server in…
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How can I make mdadm auto-assemble RAID after each boot?
I successfully created a RAID (mirroring) by utilizing mdadm. However, I must run the following commands after each boot:
mdadm --stop --scan // to stop /dev/md127 - I don't know where the number 127 even comes from
mdadm --assemble --scan // to…
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Is ZFS and RAID-Z worth using in home made NAS (freeNAS for example)
Features of ZFS and RAID-Z look vary promising. Looks like it is a perfect FS for home NAS solutions, poor man's Drobo things and alike.
Are there any drawbacks I should be aware of?
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Detecting when a server is running on UPS battery
I have a home server (HP Proliant ML310 G4) that I bought from my employer a month or so ago. The server runs Debian Linux and I use it for just about everything. I can get away with doing this because my needs aren't that demanding so the server is…
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What is the advantage of iSCSI over SMB?
At my house I'm running a Hyper-V server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM acting as a file server. Files are shared across my network using SMB. (Also, the machine is using a PERC 6/i RAID card but I don't think that's important)
I'm thinking…
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How do I host multiple physical Web servers behind a single IP address?
I am running multiple web servers in my house, each of which is plugged into my router.
Server A Server B Server C
I currently can only use one server since my IP (xx.xxx.xx.xx) port 80 is pointing towards server A. However some domains point to…
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Home file server using Samba has slow read and write speed
I have a machine running Ubuntu Server 12.04. I installed Samba for file sharing on my home network. I have Windows and Linux machine.
My server spec are:
AMD Phenom 2 x6 1055t
8GB of RAM
10/100/1000 ethernet
I get like 6Mbs/sec read and write.
I…
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Implications of using a laptop always-on as a server
I assumed that there would be a lot of information on this on both the Web in general and on Superuser, but to my surprise I can't find direct answers to these questions about using a laptop as a server.
I have been given an old iBook G4 which I…
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How much will it cost me to run a Windows Home Server?
Anybody has any measurements of how much electricity does a Windows Home Server (say one of the HP models) use while being on 24/7?
I have an old PC running at home to store files that everyone can access from their laptops, but it is using too much…
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Will the maximum speed of a network card reduce the impact of an incoming DDoS attack?
I’m wondering if the maximum speed of a network card would reduce the chances of a DDoS affecting a home-hosted website.
In this scenario, I’m hosting my website from an Android Tablet where the maximum speed incoming/outgoing is 10mbps.
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Best way to organize lots and lots of media files?
I have lots and lots of media files. About 6TB spanned across 10 physical hard drives on a personal file server. Security is not a major issue, but is being handled via other means.
These files consist of video, audio, documents, and…
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Running two DHCP Servers in the same network
I have connected my raspberry pi with a wireless access point and would like to run a DHCP Server on the RPi to assign the IP and gateway correctly. This is because the RPi serves as a gateway to a VPN. Unfortunately, the access point also runs a…
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What's the most useful Linux file system for storing videos?
I'm looking for a file system suited for my storage task, which is to store between 300 and 400 gigs of media data, i.e. video, sound and pictures.
The data will be stored on a non-SSD drive which will be used only for that data, i.e. boot time on…
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What are PCI and PCI Express slots used for?
I'm comparing different Micro-ATX motherboards for a home server build and I was wondering what I would use PCI and PCI Express slots for?
Are these used for hard-drives, GPUs, RAID controllers, RAM et cetera?
What kind of PCI slot should I aim for…
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Server vs. Desktop
I'm looking to build a set of home servers to play around with. In doing so they will be on full time, looking to run a very low volume family web site, and probably a file server with SFTP etc on it as a separate device.
My question amounts to,…
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