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Project Support => General ElkArte discussions => Topic started by: kucing on September 20, 2017, 08:51:00 am

Title: What is your stack?
Post by: kucing on September 20, 2017, 08:51:00 am
Hi everyone. Today I launched another forum using Elkarte (1.0.10). :) This is the second one, and I just thought I want to share what my setup/stack are.

The first one:

The second one that inspired me to create this topic:
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: Spuds on September 20, 2017, 06:14:20 pm
I have not played around with alternative stacks like you have, mine is pretty boring !


Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: badmonkey on November 15, 2017, 10:21:11 pm
Xeon E3-1270 v3
4 Cores x 3.5 GHz
8G RAM
Centos 6
PHP 7.0.25
Nginx 1.12.2
MariaDB 10.2.10
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on November 17, 2017, 06:32:47 pm
Great server you have there @badmonkey.

I am currently using:
- Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6Ghz (1TB HDD & 8GB RAM)
- Ubuntu 16.04
- PHP FPM (5.6 - 7.1)
- ISPConfig 3.1
- Certbot / LE (SSL for all sites)
- Nginx 1.12
- MariaDB 10.2
- Dynamic IP

I am in the middle of migrating this to Intel Core i5 3550 @ 3.3Ghz (up to 3.7) (256GB SSD, 500GB HDD and 8GB RAM upgradable to a maximum of 32GB).

This new one will have a mirror backup with same specs and both are already a work in progress.



Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: badmonkey on November 17, 2017, 08:59:47 pm
Thanks ahrasis. You have a nice setup as well. I went the SSD route, not mentioned earlier. 

Also by your recommendation, the ACP is ISPConfig 3. It was a learning curve as expected. All good though. It works well. Thanks for the good advice. 8)
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on November 18, 2017, 10:55:01 am
Don't mention it.

By the way, the migration is now complete and the new server (as mentioned earlier) is being tested.

I will try to have the mirror backup ready as soon as I am freer.
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on December 06, 2017, 09:35:26 pm
As stated my personal server was upgraded and the test is now complete. I am currently running:
- Intel Core i5 3550 @ 3.3Ghz (up to 3.7)
- 256GB SSD & 500GB HDD
- 32GB RAM
- Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)
- Linux Kernel 4.19
- PHP FPM (5.6 - 7.3)
- ISPConfig 3.1
- Certbot / LE (SSL for all sites)
- Nginx 1.17
- MariaDB 10.3
- Dynamic IP

A mirror / cluster backup server[1] is currently being built.
I am building the server and the backup based on this guide:=
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/installing-a-web-email-and-mysql-database-cluster-on-debian-8.4-with-ispconfig-3/
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on May 25, 2021, 11:09:18 am
Upgraded to my personal PC server to:
- Intel Core i5 4690 @ 3.5Ghz
- Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS)

Planning of buying a good used server.
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: Spuds on May 25, 2021, 10:16:55 pm
On my personal server, its older Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS) running ZFS for the file system. 

Its a Xeon processor but I don't recall which one ATM.  16TB of storage.  It was a small server from a datacenter that I purchased used w/o disks.  The thing was like new, super clean since it was in a datacenter.

I've really got in the mode of running most things in docker containers, if you end up with a nice used server to play with, take a look at ansible nas.  Its an ansible script / setup that you can run on Ubuntu and it will set up a lot of cool things for you.  Do it on a server you don't mind rebuilding so you can experiment. 
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on May 26, 2021, 01:18:28 am
Thanks for the advise. No, I don't mine rebuilding.
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on March 26, 2022, 09:23:35 am
I just bought used Dell PowerEdge R710, 2U Rack Server, 8x2.5 Chassis (~2TB SAS) Dual Intel Xeon L5640, 6 Core, 12 Threads, 12M Cache, 2.26 Ghz, 5.8GT/s, 24GB ( 6x4GB) DDR3 ECC RDIMM.

I will be modifying the DVDROM drive to SSD, so may be add another TB or more in there.

I am thinking of building another server with this, but I would mainly run proxmox and then have several VMs and containers.

Wish me luck.

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Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: Spuds on March 26, 2022, 12:43:48 pm
Good Luck !   ... Those 710 are as close to bullet proof as you can get in a server.   Some (all?) have an internal USB port so you can insert a USB boot device there as well.  If you go with ZFS you can find firmware to update the raid card (if it came with say the Dell Perc card).  Anyway have fun!
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on March 27, 2022, 01:12:20 am
Basically Dell R710 was introduced in 2010 but its EOSL passed almost 6 years ago. I just bought it because its cheap (RM1500) but I originally intended to build an AMD Ryzen 5600X server (actually an Acer Nitro N50-120) which I bought in about the same price early this year.

My luck I guess since the owner was trying to sell that R710 off for more than a year without success. He told me he bought it from Latin America via eBay somewhere in 2015 but he must added some of the items himself as it is already good and fully functional server to me.

I already managed to install and run proxmox successfully but I poorly setup my SAS ealier, so I think will do it again right after this. Since I got in about 2 TB, I will now try to configure all of them as Raid10 and reinstall proxmox.

Wish me luck.
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: radu81 on March 28, 2022, 02:43:19 am
Good luck! ;)
Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: ahrasis on March 28, 2022, 09:35:20 pm
Thanks @radu81.
Quote from: Spuds – If you go with ZFS you can find firmware to update the raid card (if it came with say the Dell Perc card).
I would actually want to know about this more but I could not find any good info on using ZFS on this Deall R710 since it is using PERC H700 Raid Controller with 1GB Cache which does not seem to support other than RAID.

For the time being I used RAID1 (150GB) for the proxmox main and RAID10 (900GB) for the vm's with all ext4 formatted.

So far so good but I am actually need to relocate this big size server to proper place since I am running it in my house.  :'(

Anyway, for the production, I am still running the old Intel Core i5 4690 server. I will be running the new one in production only when its location is proper and finalized.

Title: Re: What is your stack?
Post by: Spuds on March 29, 2022, 09:10:04 am
The main thing that needs to be done to play with ZFS is to get the RAID card into IT or Host (HBA) mode, so the ZFS system can see the drives,  and that will require flashing  a new BIOS onto your card to get it out of RAID only mode.   I've done this in the past with a Perc H200 and Perc H310, but its been several years now, so I don't remember all the details.

Many of the Dell Perc cards are rebranded LSI cards and there are flash files to convert them over (don't know about your H700) and there is a bootable USB kit you can download with all the utilities to do the flash.   I run ZFS with Ubuntu (lots of choices here) and really like ZFS for the per-dataset tuning that it offers, super fast replication and all all the other features it offers.

Indeed those servers need their own space, they can be noisy beasts, especially in full setup like what you have with redundant PS, dual core and redundant fans, etc.  But since its a real server, most of the parts that can fail are all hot plug, so no down time.  The Dell gen7, what you have, Dell started to concern themselves with noise levels and efficiency of datacenter resources (power, cooling), Gen 8/9 even more so. 

Anyway glad you are having fun!