How Many Servers Are You Running?

[Arthos717]

Currently run one from home at work I've got close to 33.

[JonathanM]

6 hours ago, Arthos717 said:

Currently run one from home at work I've got close to 33.

33 Unraid servers? Really?

[kizer]

Exactly.  If you have 2 what are the other 31?

[mmagl]

3 total

 

#1 is HTPC

#2 is local backup

#3 is remote backup at family member's house

[Arthos717]

On 9/12/2022 at 6:05 PM, JonathanM said:

33 Unraid servers? Really?

no only the 1 unraid server from home the other 33 are strictly work servers.

[R.M.H]

On 1/12/2022 at 10:10 AM, JorgeB said:

 

There are various reasons, one of them is like mentioned above that I like to re-utilize old disks after upgrading them, I find this more cost effective than just upgrading the existing server to even larger disks, also and although I work in IT it's kind of a hobby for me, and finally my small way of supporting LT.

 

As for what they are used, there are two main servers that are always on, with VMs and the data I need day to day, they also serve as partial backups of each other, then I have mostly cold archive servers, 5 in total and for each of those there's also another one that acts as a full backup, another server for backup of the array for one the the main servers, which doesn't need daily backups, currently also a couple of Chia farms and a couple of test servers which for now share the same key since only use one at a time.

 

 

 

I would hate to see your electric bill

Just 1 for me, well 1 at trial stage while I test things to see if I take the plunge.

[JorgeB]

3 hours ago, R.M.H said:

I would hate to see your electric bill

 

Not as bad as it sounds, only 3 servers are always on, remaining ones are cold storage, they are on about once month or so for a few hours.

[Marshalleq]

On 8/3/2022 at 9:18 AM, factor said:

9 in Total.

2 FreeBSD

6 Rocky, Alma, Other Linux

1 Slackware Server 😉

The question should be reframed to ask if it's any kind of server or just unraid servers.  I answered for unraid servers, others did not.

[Auggie]

2 UnRAIDs: Specs in my sig

[Opus44]

2 Unraid servers.  Brought the first one up three weeks ago and only recently acquired an Unraid OS Plus key.  The second one I am configuring now.  It will be very limited in scope, just used for offsite backup.   Could probably just get by with s bare linux box and some rsync commands, but think I will find reasons to grow its functionality as I get more familar with Unraid.

 

[Raptor]

1 unraid at home and 14 unraid servers at work 

[dev_guy]

Two unraid licenses but only one server runs 7x24 currently. I have other servers running 7x24 including OpenMediaVault and commercial NAS units. There are just too many performance and other issues with Unraid for it to be my sole solution.

[talgui]

I am running one Unraid  server and one qnap NAS for backup.

[aaronwt]

I'm currently running six unRAID servers. And I plan to setup two to three more. After I finish transferring data from my first three unRAID servers (only 2TB, 3TB, and 4TB drives), to my second three (Five 14TB drives in each). The first three still use the Reiser file system. So I want to move everything off of them. And then I will take the 20+ 4TB drives I have in the first three unRAID servers. And use those to setup four unRAID servers.

[DataCollector]

2 unraid Systems.

Since I discovered some limitations in unraid I had to split to 2 Servers.

And if Multiarray does not come soon   I will have to think about a third one.

 

Specs: look at my sig.

 

[bmartino1]

Between me and my friend

we have 6 unraid licenses from the old system
4 basic
2 plus keys

we have them deployed between a few city and used for a variety of use cases.

2 Main Licenses that run a Plex system

2 that run samba and generic docker for networking diagnostic

2 that we use for testing

between theses we have built a ring for file sahring to keep important data backed up.

ATM, 2 systems our down for re work, and 2 our running the beta 7 to test new features and check with our use case.

the occasional trial download to mem test and other as we build out 2 locations as we look at other os and use case with a variety of Hardware.

So, 2 key usb changes mby in the future, but otherwise 5+ unraid ssytem in the long term more for a simplified web ui use. Most of what we do can be run on other distros but without a easy to use interface. I don't like to live in the terminal for everything.