On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
[LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Jeff. Questions inserted below.
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> On 5/9/2017 7:28 AM, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>>
>> > Would this be sufficient for a web/file server, possibly a discussion
>> > group in the future? It seems I remember reading some where that a
>> > server should have at least 8G ram. It can be increased to 8G on this
>> > machine but it has only one slot and so I would have to spend another
>> > $50 or so for another memory card.
>> > Stan
>>
>> For what you described, this is probably more than enough for your use
>> case. The only upgrade I may consider, given the parameters you
>> describe, would be a pair of 2TB or larger HDDs and set up as a
>> software raid mirror to provide a modicum of local redundancy.
>>
>
> The machine comes with 4G ram. Should I upgrade to 8G?
If you wish, but as a basic web/file server it's not terribly
necessary (unless you expect a lot of traffic, then, of course, more
is better). But you can always add RAM later if it proves to be too
little now. You can run a low-traffic web server off a Raspberry Pi,
which just points out that you don't need a ton of horsepower, unless
you're running something that's high traffic. But given what you said
below about your upload speeds, you will most likely saturate your
uplink well before you ever overload your resources on your server.
> The machine comes with a 0.5TB hard drive. I am uncertain what the
> advantage of a pair of 2TB HDDs is. Could you elaborate some?
2TB or greater just because of the extra storage space. That was just
my opinion, I prefer larger disks because while I might only start out
using 300Gb, I could end up pushing well over 4TB in a year or so. I
like to plan early for possible expansion later.
As for a pair, in a mirrored software RAID, that's for redundancy. If
your first HDD fails, then you've lost everything. If one drive in
the mirror fails, you have a backup drive that takes over. My home
file server is set up this way precisely because I dislike losing data
when the HDD eventually fails.
>> If all you need is a file server (basically that's what you
>> described), you could also run it off a used craigslist or ebay
>> machine, or also consider looking at New Egg, they often have refurbs
>> in the same price range that may be even better equipped, or newer (or
>> older and lesser equipped, YMMV).
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check New Egg out. I've purchased from
> them before.
>
>> I presume you have a fast internet connection? If you're sharing
>> files with friends, who are accessing the system remotely, remember
>> they will only be able to download the files at the upload speed of
>> your internet connection. So if you're like me and limited to 3Mb/s
>> up, it won't matter if your friends have a pure 100Mb/s connection,
>> they'll still only get files from you at a max of <3Mb/s. Honestly,
>> unless your files are all relatively small, a service like dropbox is
>> far better suited to sharing files than running a file server out of
>> your house.
>>
>>
> I had not thought of this. At present I only have about 0.5M upload
> which will soon be upgraded to 1M. I live in an area where this is about
> the best that can be done. This won't detour me from creating a web
> server (and possibly a file server at some time in the future), but the
> impact of a slow upload speed is something to be aware of.
> Stan
Yep. I work from home, and unfortunately my only option is 25Mb/s
down (which is adequate but not fun when I need to pull several ISO
images) and 3Mb/s up, which sucks when I need to upload large chunks
of data. Heck, my initial offsite backup pushes to CrashPlan took
over 60 days because of that.
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