Hi guys,
Hope you can give me some advice, first post in here
To be clear, I don't expect you to give me an exact build, but the different Xeon models and boards are a jungle and not sure how much power i need.
Looking for a server to have at home, I do a little website development and looking to understand more of what is going on behind the scene + play with virtual machines. (so hopefully virtulize it all)
The most important is the webserver, being able to do FTP backup of my client’s websites and PLEX, the rest is more for test and learning purpose.
Initially I was looking at Xeon D-1500 series, but so far the Asrock boards are not in the shops and I would prefer more than one PCI slot (like X10SDV-TLN4F). Thinking a raid card makes sense(?)
So it would run:
Pfsense/vpn
Webserver
Storage (10+tb)
VM (linux and windows for testing)
Sql database (not that heavy load)
PLEX (2-3 clients simultaneously)
Since it will be running multiple VM’s and also do some calculations, it should be as powerfull as the d-1500 series but preferably also reasonably low power when idle.
Full budget is not really determined, but do not see an issue in using the ~2k for the supermicro without disks.
Ps. I’m curious and like playing with this stuff, but my knowledge is limited.
Pps. Should preferable be available in Europe.
Please ask if you need more information and thank you for your time
Chris
Hope you can give me some advice, first post in here
To be clear, I don't expect you to give me an exact build, but the different Xeon models and boards are a jungle and not sure how much power i need.
Looking for a server to have at home, I do a little website development and looking to understand more of what is going on behind the scene + play with virtual machines. (so hopefully virtulize it all)
The most important is the webserver, being able to do FTP backup of my client’s websites and PLEX, the rest is more for test and learning purpose.
Initially I was looking at Xeon D-1500 series, but so far the Asrock boards are not in the shops and I would prefer more than one PCI slot (like X10SDV-TLN4F). Thinking a raid card makes sense(?)
So it would run:
Pfsense/vpn
Webserver
Storage (10+tb)
VM (linux and windows for testing)
Sql database (not that heavy load)
PLEX (2-3 clients simultaneously)
Since it will be running multiple VM’s and also do some calculations, it should be as powerfull as the d-1500 series but preferably also reasonably low power when idle.
Full budget is not really determined, but do not see an issue in using the ~2k for the supermicro without disks.
Ps. I’m curious and like playing with this stuff, but my knowledge is limited.
Pps. Should preferable be available in Europe.
Please ask if you need more information and thank you for your time
Chris