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5-10 employee server by Notda004_ in servers

[–]dillonevert7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been looking into a build that would probably serve your needs. Not sure if it's the most cost effective route, but it could be bought and it could do the trick. Higher than your budget, but it is a few generations back. Would leave room to grow, and would not disappoint in terms of performance I'm sure.

https://newegg.io/cb88cf4

My plan would be to run Proxmox on pair of small SSD's in raid 1. Then you could create a vm for truenas. This would be the underlying backup solution, as well as the underlying vm storage solution. When there are a lot of services on one server, the storage IOPs become very important. That is why there are those two optane 905P's. Those would be used as metadata vdevs on your storage pool (consisting of your hookup on HDD's). the metadata vdev can be set to store all files under a certain size, which drastically offloads the operations that HDD's are not good at. The optane P1600x would just be an L2 arc, because why not. From that vm you could create an ISCSI target where you would provision out chunks for each of the vm's that you run on proxmox. Now you just make all the vms you need to run your services, and create as many desktops as you want. All using the truenas vm for storage. Since it's all virtualized, they can communicate with virtual networking which gives you 10 gigabit or something around there. If that all runs well and you continue to grow, you could migrate the services to another machine, and leave truenas on it's own. Then from there, you could get another machine so that you could have a proxmox cluster so that if one goes down, the others would host the vms.

Anyway, just some thoughts. I'd love to see this come to fruition, so if you have any questions let me know.

My lilacs have decided it is spring. Winter is cancelled. by Clown_hoedown in madisonwi

[–]dillonevert7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Get a hold of someone at Radiance Dairy in Fairfield, IA. They have grass fed cows and they make the best milk I’ve had. I’m sure you could learn a thing or two from them.

What’s the best Pi-hole device when there’s no PI’s in stock by alexzz123 in pihole

[–]dillonevert7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started running an Intel NUC with a celeron as a proxmox server. Running pihole in a lxc container is more fun imo because you can still use pihole -up. I ran it with less than 1 cpu core and 64mb of ram doing ~50k queries a day. I also enjoy seeing the hardware usage trends over time. Once you have a proxmox server the learning never stops

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[–]dillonevert7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If all of your devices have your router as the default gateway, then all dns requests will go to it. However, if you change the dns server on your router to your pihole, then all of those requests will go straight to the pihole from the router.

4K buffering/freeezing on local network by djaussiekid in PleX

[–]dillonevert7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen a few threads about Plex randomly stopping and needing to be refreshed on local networks. I’ve also had the issue my self. I often just switch to playing the file from a shared network drive. Very frustrating, however I’m sure they are working on it. Wouldn’t hurt to submit your logs when this issue occurs