Greetings,
Long story short after years of building computers, I am happy to report that my first server for a friend is now live and kicking 
Don’t have a lot of pictures 
but the hardware/software is as followed:
| — | Part | Price [€] |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 3400G | 168,1 |
| MB | ASRock B450 GAMING-ITX/AC | 114,51 |
| RAM | Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2×8) | 78,79 |
| Storage | WD Red WD40EFRX 4TB | 115,8 |
| Samsung SSD 970 Evo Plus M.2 NVMe 250GB | 78,9 | |
| Power supply | Seasonic Focus GX-550 80+ Gold 550 Watt | 86,11 |
| Case | Thermaltake Core V1 | 47,90 |
| — | — | |
| OS | Ubuntu server 20.04 | — |
The server will perform the following tasks:
- SAMBA - for storage/sharing
- OpenVPN – for accessing the share from outside of the home network
- Deluge – for downloading movies,…
- Kodi – for movie watching
- Minecraft server (and other game servers to come)
Things I learned about servers/their config: - If I want to correctly use caching (SSD->HDD) I should have looked at file systems beforehand
I fixed my error by allocating users to ssd but each user has a “shortcut” folder within their folder that points to the HDD where they keep their bigger files.
Something in the lines:
home/samba/1 user (their folder for storing data)
home/samba/1 user/VAULT (the folder that points to sda1/samba/1 user/VAULT)
- If you follow a good written tutorial and things don’t work it’s probably a firewall problem :oops:
- VM and real hardware are not always the same
Things I would change about the server/config: - I would skip the M.2 and get more storage
- Find a better way to create and manage OpenVPN certificates (right now it’s all done manually)
I think that’s about it all in all it was an experience, I’m going to say in a good way but I had some hiccups along the way.
Thank you for your time
*edit: can someone show me the proper way to create tables.
