Home server?

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TheNamelessPoet

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I am interested in possibly setting up a server at my home. Mostly just because I want to try and do it.

I am looking to use it as a Minecraft server possibly, but I was also thinking of using it as maybe a firewall for my home. I am interested in making everything on my home network as inaccessible to the outside world. I have no secrets or anything to hide, I just want to see if I can do it.

Can I use Linux? Like Ubuntu? I am NOT very good at using it but I am not paying for something like Windows server.
 
beers

beers

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You can use whatever you'd like. Personally I'd break out firewall and server duties to separate boxes, but you can do whatever you want :)

Do you have a particular budget or other requirements?

Also, everything in your home should be inaccessible from externally-originating sessions already ;)
If you completely took a non-accessible approach then you wouldn't be able to access anything outbound, either.
 
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TheNamelessPoet

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hmmm good points lol. well I was just going to use my old PC as a server. I need to get some ram for it but other than that its a 3.0 Ghz with I think a 1TB or 500 GB SATA drive. I honestly am looking to spend just about $0 on it, mostly just for fun.
 
beers

beers

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Sounds good, installing Minecraft is pretty easy. Really you only have to install the Java JRE and then run the minecraft instance through Java. Pretty much every distro has the binaries for either Sun/Oracle or OpenJDK

If you had enough RAM you could probably use something like ESXi and have both instances with some degree of separation.

Firewall wise I'd say give pfSense a shot.
 
Agent Smith

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Bitdefender Free says the website contains malware. I went there anyway since I'm use NoScript and Sandboxie and seen nothing malicious. Virustotal results:https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/8...1d2dcc3f4cacf23cb3f9f74e/analysis/1440918923/

That USB method looks alright, but then I read about that pain in the ass command you have to type. Personally, I have a USB CD drive so wouldn't do that USB method. And my USB CD drive comes in handy for the netbook.
 
Cromewell

Cromewell

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Agent Smith said:
but then I read about that pain in the ass command you have to type
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mounting a drive isn't exactly a big deal. Seems kind of small potatoes vs dropping some cash on a USB CD drive, and then media for it. However cheap it may be, entering a single command costs me very little. Besides, most things will install fine if you use Rufus to create a bootable USB stick from its ISO.

If you don't have the system to setup as a server or firewall now, often you can get them on the super cheap when schools upgrade their hardware. One of the universities in town here upgrades at least annually and you can pick up essentially brand new gear at steep discounts. The lineups go down the street for it. You'd think it was an Apple launch :p
 
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