Hi FreeBSD gurus,
for more than a year now I have been experimenting at home with a headless FreeBSD 12 server running in VirtualBox on an iMac 2011 (!). The VM is configured with a mirrored UFS disk and 6 GB RAM. So far, it has served me well (!), resilvering correctly after several improper shutdowns of the VM (!) while the iMac was used normally for browsing, playing games, etc (!) Most of the time, the CPU is idle, and with the services I am running it uses ~2GB of RAM. The services provide support for mail (locally), CalDAV, WebDAV, DVCS (Gogs, Fossil), project management (Redmine), RSS (FreshRSS or Miniflux), databases (PostgreSQL), metasearch engine (Searx), and bookmarking (Wallabag). Each service is in its own jail. I am the only user. Sure, I took some risks (cough cough)—but I had a plan B anyway.
Given my positive experience with FreeBSD, I'd like to finally move everything to a physical server. I'd like to add some NAS functionality (probably with NextCloud—do you have better ideas?), to be used by three/five people. No multimedia/streaming at all. No GUI.
From my virtual experience, I think that my requirements for a home server are pretty modest. As is my budget: I'd like to keep CPU+motherboard around 200€ and the whole system with a couple of (2–4 TB) SATA disks around 600–700€—so I think I am bound to desktop-grade stuff (I have found a Supermicro X10SSL-SF for 150€, but is it worth it in 2021?). This is a combination that I have found:
- Core i3 10100F 3.60Ghz
- Gigabyte B460M DS3H
Although at my price point ECC is ruled out, I'd still like to replace UFS with ZFS (so I think I need at least 8GB of RAM). If you have experience with very low-end servers, especially with recent hardware, I'd like to know what you would look for, given the above.
for more than a year now I have been experimenting at home with a headless FreeBSD 12 server running in VirtualBox on an iMac 2011 (!). The VM is configured with a mirrored UFS disk and 6 GB RAM. So far, it has served me well (!), resilvering correctly after several improper shutdowns of the VM (!) while the iMac was used normally for browsing, playing games, etc (!) Most of the time, the CPU is idle, and with the services I am running it uses ~2GB of RAM. The services provide support for mail (locally), CalDAV, WebDAV, DVCS (Gogs, Fossil), project management (Redmine), RSS (FreshRSS or Miniflux), databases (PostgreSQL), metasearch engine (Searx), and bookmarking (Wallabag). Each service is in its own jail. I am the only user. Sure, I took some risks (cough cough)—but I had a plan B anyway.
Given my positive experience with FreeBSD, I'd like to finally move everything to a physical server. I'd like to add some NAS functionality (probably with NextCloud—do you have better ideas?), to be used by three/five people. No multimedia/streaming at all. No GUI.
From my virtual experience, I think that my requirements for a home server are pretty modest. As is my budget: I'd like to keep CPU+motherboard around 200€ and the whole system with a couple of (2–4 TB) SATA disks around 600–700€—so I think I am bound to desktop-grade stuff (I have found a Supermicro X10SSL-SF for 150€, but is it worth it in 2021?). This is a combination that I have found:
- Core i3 10100F 3.60Ghz
- Gigabyte B460M DS3H
Although at my price point ECC is ruled out, I'd still like to replace UFS with ZFS (so I think I need at least 8GB of RAM). If you have experience with very low-end servers, especially with recent hardware, I'd like to know what you would look for, given the above.