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I've been using a RPi as a VPN server for about a year now. Works well and uses basically no electricity. I'm about to decommission it though once I bring my pfSense router online because I plan on using the VPN built in to that. May use the RPi as a Siri proxy or something after that. Haven't decided yet.

Are you ready for another $4.99 from me? Assuming that's what you plan to charge for the iOS version too.. How have sales of the Mac version been so far? Understandable if you don't want to share business details like that though.

What type of RAM is it? You might be able to get a 1GB stick on eBay for dirt cheap.

That PSU should work since it's EPS 12V compliant but unless you can find another thread on here confirming it the only way to know is to try. Supermicro motherboards are notoriously picky.

The integrated video on the E3-12x5 versions is only "useless" if you buy a motherboard with IPMI. Note that I said that in my comment ... i.e. I don't know of any board released in the last 5 years or so that will not default to the USB drive if none of the SATA drives have a bootable partition. I've set up many unraid servers for people without ever connecting them to a monitor. In fact I've never set up an unraid server with a monitor connected to it.

Another vote for a flavor of Ubuntu. The standard distro using Unity is probably pushing it for 512MB of RAM. Xubuntu, or worst case Lubuntu, should be OK.

I know the title of the page says betas and RCs but the instructions, number 1-5 in the 4.7 sectiion, are the steps you need to follow. Ignore the parts below it that mention the betas and RCs. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/UnRAID_Server_Version_5.0-beta_Release_Notes

I'd go for the E3-1240 v3 versus the 1245 garycase listed. $20 cheaper and no useless integrated GPU. http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Chip-Processor-3-4-BX80646E31240V3/dp/B00D697PZK/

We need some more info on the hardware. HP media server is not enough to go by. We need a model number or something...

Buy a 4TB brand new to replace parity, and buy a 3TB factory refurbished WD Green on eBay for around $80-$90 USD. Replace your parity with the 4TB, replace your 1TB with the refurb 3TB and replace the 750GB with the old parity disk. That gets you 3.25TB of additional space for not a lot of cash and gives you some breathing room to start saving for your new server. Then sell the 1TB and 750GB on eBay to recoup some of the costs. People will still pay for those used disks.

By WD. IIRC their desktop drives division went to one company and laptop drives to another. I may be wrong though. Too busy to Google. Toshiba supposedly got their 3.5 inch factories and some related technologies, but if you buy a HGST branded 3.5 inch disk that money is going to WD. For example I got a WD 4TB external. Cracked it open and the disk was the same HGST this thread was about.

Nice but did you see them example checkout they gave on the blog? A Dell 31.5 inch 4K display is €3,600. Converting Euros to dollars that's double what we pay before taxes are included and we get free shipping. Tax and duty is another €1,400 Euros plus €150 Euro shipping! I just don't see this as being worth it unless they have something you absolutely need and can't get elsewhere. Newegg needs to build warehouses over there so people can avoid out of control import duties and shipping costs. Shipping the stuff from warehouses in New Jersey to the UK and California to Australia, which is what I'm assuming they're doing for customs and shipping to be so high, just seems like a half baked idea.

More likely they would just keep using the free version. The reason there is a free version of unraid is because the cheapest paid version is $69 dollars. That's a high price. If you can't afford to potentially eat the $5 cost if you end up not going with unraid then you've got bigger money problems and probably shouldn't be spending your money a home data storage sever.

If you can find a combo of that board with IPMI I'd go for that one. If you're not familiar IPMI allows for complete headless management of the server. Once you've had a server with it you can't go without it. It's awesome. http://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-ipmiview-review-remote-server-monitoring-management-ipmi-20-kvm-over-ip/

I think feature wise you've got pretty much all you need. The web GUI should be used if you need more information. Maybe something like clicking the array pie graph in the first tab to open the web GUI in your default browser could be a happy compromise.

If you don't want to open up ssh on any of your VMs to the outside world I guess setting something up specifically for connecting from the outside world is what you'll have to do. A VM would work. If you want a cool little project, you could buy a cheap little Raspberry Pi and set up a VPN server on it. Then you can VPN in to your home network from your phone or another computer or whatever. That's actually what I'm doing right now until I get my pfSense router set up. The nice thing about using the Raspberry Pi is that it's a separate device so on the off chance you ever need to reboot your entire server remotely, you wouldn't lose access to your home network while the VM with the VPN or ssh server was shut down. The RPi uses such a little amount of electricity to run 24/7 you won't even notice a difference on your electric bill.

Looks like it's only $99 bucks which is a pretty good price. Has a mount for a 2.5 inch drive inside as well. Paired with a Haswell Celeron or Pentium and a 6 SATA port board you could put together a nice, really small, cheap system.

If you want something with similar performance to the i7 you picked out I'd go for the E3-1240 v3. Then I'd go for something like this for the board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182820 For the RAM, try to find a good price on ECC DDR3-1600.

On your AirPort Extreme you just need to setup port mapping/forwarding. Choose a port you want to use for the public port and forward that port to private port 22 on the IP address of your server. I wouldn't recommend using port 22 as your public port though. Just pick something obscure thats not already in use. I use ports in the 8300 range as that's pretty open. Then when you want to connect outside your network you just specify the port like so: ssh -p 8310 username@<your public ip> Slighty off topic but I noticed you mentioned the following in your post: Do you mean you have three separate Ubuntu VMs with each running one of those applications? If so, why? Why not run them all in the same VM? That's a big waste of system resources.

If you're really going to want to go the virtualization route down the road I'd fork up the extra cash it would cost for the Xeon CPU/server motherboard/ECC RAM. You're looking at about an extra $100-$150 bucks for the server grade parts depending on the specific CPU and motherboard you choose.

The BR10i supports a maximum disk size of 2TB. Don't use that card unless you don't plan on using disks larger than that.

You actually shouldn't have to manually add the /index.html. /web/ alone should work.

Port 80. It works the way it does because you don't have to install a helper app to get it working I wouldn't recommend opening your webGUI up to the internet. Seconded! DO NOT OPEN YOUR WEBGUI TO THE OUTSIDE INTERNET!!

If you don't need the PFC model and have a Costco membership, they had the CP1350AVRLCD for $90 when I was there last Saturday.

I'm not sure what you mean bob had permissions in Windows. The user in Linux is not related to a Windows login account in any way. Mounting with samba would not make a difference because of, like I said, where you have the directories mounting. It doesn't have anything to do with the protocol. It's the location your mounting these shares. Like I said, your only options are to grant bob access to the root directory or mount it in bob's home directory and make whatever changes are required. I run SickBeard in an Ubuntu VM, not in unraid.