my scsi controller needs to be entered during boot to manage raid. it also has an external battery that needed replacing (which cost more new than just buying a new card … with the exact same battery) so if you’re not in verbose boot mode figure that out and see if the controller is telling you which function key it needs.

figuring out this old stuff is most of the fun in running it, I would sell it as scrap before actually hosting anything on it.

I have a HP Proliant DL380G7, basically the last server with a front side bus, and all the comments about it where about power per watt.

and they’re not wrong.

I just don’t think this is the community for old servers like this, self hosting is very much a practical consideration and the money spent on electricity running anything useful on these old things is better spent on a raspberry pi or stand alone NAS or something.

you haven’t seen the state of my server have you

is it worth starting out with podman or is this just some job requirement and docker is perfectly fine for us hobbyists

just messing around on https://shell.cloud.google.com is good for a beginner to unix enviroments.

I was just cosplaying but I’m flattered you thought I was a real sysadmin (also logging is always broken)

the S in “IoT” stands for security

I’ll be using this a lot, thanks

I figure that’s where it’ll end up but it’s just an opportunity to mess around with some enterprise level hardware.

another vote for the 1050

I’m super new to all this but piehole has clients and groups which I assume is for applying custom rules