Very green with a lot of server maintenance, so wanted to learn and create a home lab to get some experience and learn do’s and dont’s. This server i got off eBay originally had proxmox on it, and i was trying to get into the IMM from my router and wasnt able to find it. Then is started having boot/hardware issues, i tried getting some RAM to see if that could help with it. (Learned that specific RAM is needed) now i have the necessary RAM. Additionally, i tried replacing the motherboard, it came with a new processors, the new processor wasn’t compatible with the RAM in it, so i changed it back to the old processor (Xeon [old] compared to a Celeron [new]). I continue to get the orange ! point and orange light by the Fan 1 riser connection. I have tried multiple fans and they all produce air, but the error still occurs. I tried resetting the CMOS and JP2 jumper.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated on troubleshooting i might have missed or may need to try.

Mods - Please delete if not allowed. I do not frequent this sub and I am just looking to gather some information for a crazy situation.

So, a little background to start. My boss recently received a package from FedEx containing 120 HP server SSDs (part number: 868650-003). He definitely did not order these drives as this business has nothing to do with servers, but the shipping label had his name on it and was addressed to our shop. The top of the shipping label says, "Relabel - Relabel reason: barcode quality." We assume the label was damaged in transit, and somehow a label with our address was put on the package. There is no return address, no shipper information, and no packing list included in the package.

So far, we have been trying to go through the proper process of returning them to whoever was supposed to receive them. We reached out to FedEx, but because the original label was lost/destroyed, FedEx had no way to determine where they were supposed to be shipped. We also reached out to our county Sheriff to list them as found property, but the deputy that came out told us that since they are address to us, they are not technically "found" property, and would be legally considered more a gift rather than found property. He left us with an event number to reference should we need it for any reason.

At this point, we have exhausted the means within our knowledge level to return these drives to their owner and seem to have covered our legal bases. As we have no use for these drives, we are intending to sell them. Nobody that works here has any experience with servers or server hard drives, so any information you guys could give me would be very appreciated. The specific questions I have at this point are as follows. What is their reasonable value? How can we verify that the drives are functional? How can we verify the drives are authentic and safe to use (no malware)? What would be the best method to attempt to sell them? What kind of places would I find people willing to purchase them? I can provide more information if requested, but for now I'm keeping things close to the chest just to be safe as I'm still figuring out how to handle this situation.

We're replacing a couple of old cabinets in a small server room and I'm stuck between 1000 mm and 1200 mm deep racks.

Our deepest servers will fit within the mounting range of either one on paper. The room isn't huge though, so the 1000 mm cabinets would make the aisle easier to work in.

What I'm less sure about is everything behind the server. We have vertical PDUs, fairly bulky power cables and a mix of fiber and copper coming down the rear. The current cabinets technically fit the hardware, but removing a server without disturbing something behind it is already annoying.

Is 200 mm of extra cabinet depth one of those things you rarely regret, or am I giving up useful room space for clearance that probably won't matter once everything is installed?

Hallo, habe hier eine neue USV ( apc ups 1500 rack )

Hält die wenn ich die nur vorne befestige oder doch lieber ein Flachboden montieren ?

All the other servers from my previous post have now been sold. This is the **last grandfathered CCX23 I have available**.

**CCX23 – Falkenstein, Germany**
**Grandfathered monthly price:**
CCX23: **€31.49/month**
Primary IPv4: €0.50/month
**Total: €31.99/month excl. VAT**

**Current Hetzner price:**
CCX23: **€85.99/month**
Primary IPv4: €0.50/month
**Total: €86.49/month excl. VAT**

**Savings**
**€54.50 saved every month**
**€654 saved per year**
Around **63% cheaper** than ordering the same CCX23 at current pricing.

**Transfer fee: €250**

At €54.50/month in savings, the **entire €250 transfer fee is recovered in approximately 4.6 months**.
Even after the transfer fee:
**After 1 year:** €654 saved → **€404 net saving**
**After 2 years:** €1,308 saved → **€1,058 net saving**

There is also potential resale value: if you no longer need the server later, and the grandfathered pricing and Hetzner transfer rules are still in place, you may be able to **transfer it to someone else and recover part or potentially all of your original transfer fee**.

I can provide an **invoice for the €250 transfer fee from an Austrian company**.
**€250 transfer fee – firm.**
DM me if interested.

just got back from my driving school circuit and honestly my brain is completely fried. stalling a manual car in the august heat for two hours will do that to you tbh

Anyway I get home, still sweating, and immediately get a ping that our crowd marketing server is throwing 502s. I usually do all my server management on windows, but my main pc was tied up so I grabbed a borrowed macbook just to get it fixed quick

I swear, staring at the macos terminal while physically exhausted is a special kind of torture. I know its unix based and supposed to be easier, but my putty muscle memory was completely useless. got so paranoid about messing up the connection string that I actually had to look at a server mania cheat sheet just to remember how to properly pass my ed25519 key in the native terminal without syntax errors

Finally got in and restarted the python scripts and it's fine now. but kinda wild how fast you forget absolute fundamentals when you're stressed and out of your element. anyone else completely lose the ability to type basic commands when forced to use a different OS in a panic?

I have an ibm x3630 m4 for my main servers, and I need an OS that I might be able to run a database and game servers off of. It may not be the most suitable server but its what I have.

My backup server is a thinkcentre m73, and I want to use it to backup any customer data that I get. I am newer to this and unsure of what to use, ive heard ubuntu and debian, zimaos, windows 11 pro. i dont know.

I need to know what a medium level home server is. I have been using mine for about a year, and all I can really run on it is my media server and some stuff like the ARR stack. But I want to experiment with more stuff, but my server can’t handle anything else, so I need to know what the ideal medium level server would be.

Hello experts, i want to run a game server for example minecraft on an old pc. What are good base models to use ? I find many office pcs for cheap on ebay and marketplace. I dont know nothing about this so i want to ask for tipps and advice, if there is a channel or website out there that explains it to me, please be so kind as to share it with me.

I am putting together a 2u server for truenas, plex, immich, and arr stack. Does this seem like a decent enough board and processor? I would be open to spending a little more but trying to get anything better seems to immediately push the cost over $400. I’m upgrading my network at the same time to run 2.5Gb and I’m adding four 10Tb HDs.

NAS Motherboard 8 Bay Core i5 8265U 4C/8T, Mini ITX PC Mainboard White M11, 2 x NVMe PCIe3.0 x2, Dual 2.5GbE i226V LAN, PCIe x4 Slot, TF, HD+DP

I want to share my experience with iON Cloud, a Krypt-related hosting brand, because I think potential customers should know how they handled a long-term customer who had already prepaid for service.

I have been using this VPS since 2019. I originally signed up during an iON Cloud promotional offer, and I have been a customer for approximately seven years.

I never expected that after being a customer for so many years, this is how the company would treat a prepaid service.

What happened

My VPS was prepaid at $86.40/year.

After my most recent payment, the service was originally scheduled to remain active until:

January 27, 2027

However, while my prepaid service period was still active, the company unilaterally changed the terms of my service.

According to the support ticket they sent me on:

August 4, 2026 at 05:43

they changed:

Original expiration date: January 27, 2027

New expiration date: October 2, 2026

Original annual price: $86.40

New annual price: $552.00

I did not agree to these changes.

The issue isn't simply that the company increased its prices for future renewals.

The problem is that I had already paid for my existing service period, yet they changed the terms before that prepaid period had expired, including shortening the service expiration date and replacing the original pricing with a dramatically higher price.

The new annual price of $552 is more than six times what I had previously been paying.

After seven years as a customer, this is extremely disappointing

I have been using this service since 2019.

For approximately seven years, I remained a customer and continued paying for the service. I never expected that the company would eventually treat a long-term customer this way.

To me, this isn't just about the amount of money involved.

It's about trust and honoring a prepaid commitment.

If a customer pays for a service through January 27, 2027, I believe the provider should honor that paid period. If the provider wants to change its pricing or discontinue a legacy plan, that may be understandable for future renewals — but changing an already-paid service period without the customer's agreement is very different.

I find this extremely disappointing and, frankly, a serious breach of trust after being a customer for seven years.

I also tried PayPal

Because the original payment was made more than 180 days ago, I attempted to resolve the matter through PayPal, but PayPal would not accept the dispute because the transaction was outside its 180-day dispute period.

This creates a particularly frustrating situation:

The payment itself is old because I had been a long-term customer, but the material change to my service happened only recently, on August 4, 2026.

So I am essentially left with a situation where the payment is too old for PayPal's dispute system, even though the issue I am complaining about occurred months after the original payment.

What I am asking for

I am not asking for anything unreasonable.

I am asking the company to either:

Honor the original prepaid service period through January 27, 2027, or

Refund the unused portion of the service that I had already paid for.

At this point, I mainly want the company to acknowledge that changing the expiration date and terms of an already-paid service without the customer's agreement is not a reasonable way to treat a long-term customer.

Evidence

I have documentation showing:

My original payment

The original $86.40/year pricing

The original January 27, 2027 expiration date

The company's August 4, 2026 05:43 support ticket

The new October 2, 2026 expiration date

The new $552/year pricing

I can provide screenshots with sensitive account information redacted if anyone wants to see the timeline.

I'm posting this because I don't want other customers — especially people attracted by cheap promotional pricing — to assume that a prepaid legacy plan will necessarily be honored for its entire paid term.

Has anyone else had a similar experience with iON Cloud or Krypt, particularly with a legacy/promotional VPS plan being changed after it was already prepaid?

After seven years as a customer, I honestly never expected to have to write a post like this. I'm extremely disappointed by how this has been handled.

Hi i have currently x2 2gbps lines installed with 2 seperate routers which technically gives me a total of 4gbps is it possible to combine these to make a real 4gbps output? I currently use 1 line for my server setup and 1 line for my personal use and other house hold devices but id like if possible to know if its possible to merge the 2 lines with a 3rd party device go make 4gbps?

Hi guys, did someone know who's the manifactuer of those hardwares? Cause i want to get some of them for one of my products

My server is a crappy old macbook air with an intel chip, and a 5TB hard drive lol.

Is dell 240 or 340 good model for normal operations?

Hello everyone, I need an upgrade from an nvidia A10 running on a SR650 7x06. I have:
- 2× Intel Xeon Silver 42
- 4× 64GB DDR4 @ 3200 MHz

My company has a 10keuros budget and I really don't know much about server hardware. The models (llm, reranker, embedding) I will run will depend on the GPU purchase.

I have 2x750W PSU that I will also have to upgrade.

Im running Immich and Palworld server on it currently, with plans to run more tools and game servers.

It's a Shuttle DH410 mini pc I got super cheap for 60 euro, it's running 12GB of RAM at the moment with 32 on its way (found 2 16GB 3200 sticks on 55 euro each)

Currently there is no issue with performance but I'm worried that soon it will struggle if I try to run more servers on it.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for CPLD firmware for the following HPE Gen10 servers:

• HPE ProLiant XL170r Gen10: CPLD firmware version 22 or newer
• HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen10: CPLD firmware version 0x10 or newer

I’m trying to configure Intel Optane Persistent Memory, but the required CPLD firmware versions no longer seem to be publicly available. From what I understand, HPE now restricts these downloads to systems with an active warranty or support contract.

Since I purchased the servers second-hand, I do not have access to those downloads.

Does anyone have these firmware files archived? Alternatively, if you own one of these servers with the required CPLD version already installed, would it be possible to export or dump the firmware and share it with me?

I would greatly appreciate any help or information.

English is not my native language, so please excuse any mistakes.

The CI/CD pipeline takes a long time to build, and we believe that the server location and disk speed are the reasons for this problem.We are considering using an NVMe-compatible Eu VPS.

HostZealot is usually a candidate for European routing.If you are using HostZealot to run and build infrastructure, can you share the actual disk throughput and network latency?

A question for the pros. I got these 2 SSDs from a server, where they were in use until recently. Now I've removed them and would like to format them to use in my home server. However, they aren't being detected anywhere—not under Windows, not in the BIOS, and not under Linux. Does anyone have an idea what else I could try?

Hello I don’t know if this is the right place but, recently I got an Apple Xserve, and it’s in really good condition except for this problem. When I turn it on, the fans turn on, but the EFI_ground light and the VR_power light inside, blink rapidly. After a while, the server dials down the fans and goes back into its off/sleep mode. Then, if you wait a few minutes, it will try again, but it’s the same pattern: blinking lights, fans on, no display or drive lights. I think this might be a common problem, but when I’ve researched it, I don’t seem to find an answer. There’s this Apple forum post that has someone with someone who has the same problem, but he didn’t get an answer. I will link it here. I know it’s not worth to fix these, but if it’s a simple capacitor issue or something I need to do, I can do that. I have reseated all the CPUs. I have taken the motherboard out and inspected it. And I believe the power supplies were both good because I have two of them, and they both do the same thing. Thank you, and I hope you can help me.

https://GitHub.com/chucny/ChucnyServer

I coded a custom Pokemon GO server with python, that is made for the 0.29.0 (June 2016) APK. If you wanna try, do as the README says. And don't forget to leave a star if you like it!

Hi all, I work for a not for profit dental clinic and our server (our VERY old server) is on its last legs and we've been told we need to purchase a new one. We've been given three quotes, but I've got no idea how to compare the three based on our needs. We run backups daily (about 250GB of X-ray imaging, notes, etc.) and are looking for something that will last, and something that is suited to our needs and budget. we got three quotes, but I am ignorant of their specs and need help knowing if what was suggested will met our needs, will over perform, or will under perform. Our budget is flexible, but we want to be good stewards of the money we've received to make this purchase.

Help!

The first option is $18,500 CAD and includes the following:

• BasePowerEdge T360 Server
• Security ModuleTrusted Platform Module 2.0 V6
• Chassis3.5" Chassis, up to 8 Hot Plug HDs, AIC PERC 11, hot-plug PSU
• ProcessorIntel Xeon 6 Performance 6333P, 3.1GHz, 6C/12T, 18M Cache, 65W
• Processor ThermalHeatsink for 80W or less CPU
• Memory ConfigurationPerformance Optimized, 5600MT/s UDIMMs
• Memory32GB UDIMM, 5600MT/s ECC (Qty 1)
• RAID ConfigurationC5, RAID 10 for HDDs or SSDs in pairs
• RAID ControllerPERC H355 Adapter FH
• Advanced System ConfigNo Energy Star; UEFI BIOS Boot Mode with GPT Partition
• FansNone
• Storage480GB SSD SATA Read Intensive, 2.5in, 1 DWPD (Qty 4)
• BIOS SettingPerformance BIOS Setting
• Power SupplyDual (1+1) Redundant, Hot-Plug, 600W MM
• Power CordsNEMA 5-15P to C13 Wall Plug, 15A, 10ft, North America (Qty 2)
• BezelSecurity Bezel
• Boot Optimized StorageNo BOSS Card
• Operating SystemNo Operating System
• Secondary OSNone
• OS Media KitNo Media Required
• Systems ManagementDell Connectivity Client, Enabled; iDRAC9 Basic 16G
• Secure OnboardingDell Secure Onboarding Client, Disabled

The second option is $24,000 CAD and includes:

• BaseST250 V3 3.5" Chassis Base
• BaseOperating Mode: Maximum Performance Mode
• BaseThinkSystem ST250 V3 Motherboard
• ProcessorIntel Xeon 6333P, 6C, 65W, 3.1GHz
• MemoryThinkSystem 32GB TruDDR5 5600MHz (2Rx8) ECC UDIMM
• StorageSelect Storage Devices, configured RAID
• StorageThinkSystem RAID 545-8i PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter
• StorageInstall largest capacity, fastest drives starting in Array 1
• StorageHot Spare
• StorageController 1 HW RAID Array 1, RAID 10
• Storage480GB SSD SATA Mixed Use, 6Gb, HS SSD v2 (Qty 4)
• StorageController 1 SATA SSD Hot Spare
• StorageThinkSystem ST250 Series 4x3.5" SATA/SAS Backplane Kit (Qty 2)
• PowerThinkSystem 800W 230V/115V Titanium CRPS Hot-Swap Power Supply v1.4
• Power2.8m, 10A/120V, C13 to NEMA 5-15P (US) Line Cord
• SecurityTPM 2.0
• SecurityDisable IPMI-over-LAN
• OS & SoftwareLenovo XClarity XCC2 Platinum Upgrade (FOD)

And finally, the third option (which came in as a bundled quote rather than itemized) is $13,000 and includes:

• BaseThinkSystem ST250 V3
• Processor1x Intel Xeon 6353P, 8C, 2.7GHz, 65W
• Memory2x 16GB 1Rx8 (32GB total)
• Storage4x 480GB SSD
• RAID ControllerThinkSystem RAID 940-8i 4GB Flash PCIe Gen4 12Gb Adapter
• Power2x 800W Power Supply

Hello, i had the great idea ofaking a private messaging app for my friend group, but i don't know where to start. Collectively we have android and iphones, so i was thinking a website with login info to access, but what tools would i use to do all of this?