making my own home server

[llwyd]

I should, in the next week or two be getting my mits on my mates old 2.6 celeron setup (motherboard, processor and power supply). The parts are out of a dell, which would explain the fact that the motherboard doesnt have an AGP port fitted . naturally ill be buying some RAM for it, im also planning on making my own case for it, to save space, as i wont be using any peripherals, and once the stuff is installed on it i can do away with optical drives. It will be running linux and will be wired to my router. So the point of this thread is:

1. How high can i get this celeron? (if water cooling is needed im working on building my own)

2. Is there anything i should be aware of before i crack on?

3. Just how hard will it be to do what i want to do on linux ?

thankyou

 

[Joe]

I should, in the next week or two be getting my mits on my mates old 2.6 celeron setup (motherboard, processor and power supply). The parts are out of a dell, which would explain the fact that the motherboard doesnt have an AGP port fitted . naturally ill be buying some RAM for it, im also planning on making my own case for it, to save space, as i wont be using any peripherals, and once the stuff is installed on it i can do away with optical drives. It will be running linux and will be wired to my router. So the point of this thread is:

1. How high can i get this celeron? (if water cooling is needed im working on building my own)

2. Is there anything i should be aware of before i crack on?

3. Just how hard will it be to do what i want to do on linux ?

thankyou

NOT OCable using that mobo .. DELL dont allow customer OCs in their normal line

the case mayb unusual in design dell mobos usin custom mountings SO DONT USE NORMAL ATX SPEC

i take it this will be a file server

on linux ... if ur lan adaptor is detected (it should be) this will be very easy to do just create a win/samba share with r/w permissions turned to all (or a specific username) and then use over the network like a normal folder

edit :

see http://www.samba.org/ for samba configuration info

 

[llwyd]

I was planning on it being a smalltime CSS + VoIP server , for just my house and one or 2 friends. So your saying the motherboard wont allow an overclock? what can you suggest in the way of a cheap new one?

 

[Phnom_Penh]

TBH, you probably won't need to oc it at all.

 

[bloodthirst]

yeah you shouldnt need to overclock it at all really that should be enough for a css server Providing you have a decent amount of ram and a good internet connection

 

[JN]

On a normal ADSL line, you will really only be able to have 4 people on the server before you run out of bandwidth, and your server non-overclocked will easily be able to handle that

 

[llwyd]

well two PCs will be over LAN, and maybe two guests over the net. Two 512s kingston value RAM should do it?

 

[JN]

well two PCs will be over LAN, and maybe two guests over the net. Two 512s kingston value RAM should do it?

Yeah that'll be fine.

 

[Tec]

Back in CS server time ( old admin ) there used to be programs installed on server side which used to decrease players ping and server load. Not sure if thats still available for CSS servers but it might be handy to serve more then 4 5 players

 

[llwyd]

cheers, ill look into that. Unfortunately because of where i live my line is capped at 512kb. So i think 2 external players would be my lot

 

[Dav0s]

its about your upload...not download

and afaik adsl upload speeds are all the same

 

[bloodthirst]

its about your upload...not download

and afaik adsl upload speeds are all the same

dont you guys in the UK have cable internet? everyone has adsl?

 

[Dav0s]

ihave cable

 

[llwyd]

Oh right, i thought upload speeds were always symetrical, my bad. I should be moving soon, into newport, where i can get up to 10meg

 

[JN]

Oh right, i thought upload speeds were always symetrical, my bad. I should be moving soon, into newport, where i can get up to 10meg

Still watch out, because even on 10mb adsl your download will still only be something silly like 700kbs. To get a 10mb SDSL/Leased Line you are looking a BIG bucks

 

[Danni]

I don't think there's much increase in upload speed either- around 768kbps or something (though I could be wrong).

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Still watch out, because even on 10mb adsl your download will still only be something silly like 700kbs. To get a 10mb SDSL/Leased Line you are looking a BIG bucks

10mb, wouldn't that be NTL cable? (could be leased, but not SDSL).

I don't think there's much increase in upload speed either- around 768kbps or something (though I could be wrong).

Things like SDSL would be symmetrical, so you'd get 2mbs up and down.

 

[Joe]

for the UK and if u r lucky (in ur area)

www.bethere.co.uk ADSL2, 24 down, 1.3 Up

£24 install and £24 a month + free Adsl2 wireless router

if u rnt luck wit ADSL2 try

www.f2s.net ADSL 8 down, .768 Down

24 a month

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Don't touch F2S with a barge pole tbh, they've just started traffic shaping, not a good company to go with.

 

[Joe]

Don't touch F2S with a barge pole tbh, they've just started traffic shaping, not a good company to go with.

hell im on them on 8 down .8 up and altho they hav started traffic shaping it only really applies to torrent ports .. if u wish to torrent change the port