Personal Server

A small collection of two custom built, extremely budget constrained servers with the purpose of hosting a HTTP website, SMB shares, FTP server, Home Assistant IoT Cloud, DDNS Client, and game server. The HTML website runs on a Linux Apache server with MySQL and PHP.

File Server

AMD A8-3850 Quad-Core @ 2.9 GHz

8GB DDR3 RAM

128GB Boot SSD

500GB HDD for Website Backups

2 x 2TB HDD for Bulk Archival Storage - RAID 1

2 x 4TB HDD for Bulk RAW Photo Storage - RAID 1

Server runs on Windows 10 Home with all drives accessed using SMB shares for local access. FTP setup for remote access to archival storage using personal domain.

Improvements include switching to a linux based file server with CPU upgrade and 100% SSD storage and soft power off on power loss.

Web Server

HP EliteBook 8570p

Intel Core i7-3540M

8GB DDR3 RAM

256GB SSD

Ubuntu 20.04

Server runs a variety of continuous scripts an VMs at boot including the following:

Custom DDNS Script to update dynamic IP address

Minecraft Game Server

Home Assistant OS VM

ESPHome OTA Programmer Tool

Apache server with MySQL and PHP (Deprecated)

Improvements include switching to more powerful system with regular image backups and combining with upgraded linux file server.

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