Looking for Advice on a New Server

[keith smith]

If you have just a few websites and they are low traffic, why not just pay for vhosting some place?

I was hosting a couple low traffic web sites from my home  office and decided it was not worth it. I went back to vhosting.  

If you are set on hosting out of your home or office you might consider a low end box for your web server.

I use an old HP single core AMD laptop with 3GB RAM as a LAMP dev box that has enough go that I think it would make a nice public facing LAMP web server.  I've always thought a netbook might be enough power to run a LAMP server for a handful of low traffic websites. 

I know some are cringing at what I said.  I'm not talking production here.  This is simply home office stuff.

And if your other server is strictly for file storage then you do not need much of a box there as well.  I would think storage would be more important.  I'm thinking and i3 with 2gb of ram with lots of storage.  And the i3 might be over kill since it is for storage and will be running Linux.

I ran CentOS 5 something on an old 1g Celeron w/256mb ram a couple years ago. Just command line.   I installed QmailToaster on it and it ran well as a test.  

Based on my experience for what you are talking about you really do not need much resources, especially since you are going to be running Linux.

Keith


On Monday, April 14, 2014 9:45 AM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
 
I need a new machine to host a couple of low traffic web sites, act as a back up server for my home network, and provide a place to experiment with new stuff (ie have some fun). I am replacing two Dell Optiplex GX260s....486 and 2 GB of RAM each! Woo hoo!!

I am looking at a refurbished Dell Optiplex 9020 - 
	* Processor: Intel Core 4th Generation i7-4770 Processor (8MB Cache, 3.40GHz)
	* Windows 8 Pro
	* 500 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
	* 16GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 1600Mhz
	* 16X DVD +/- RW Drive
	* Intel Integrated Graphics
	* Dell Outlet Optiplex 9020 Mini Tower
for about $700. It only has two internal drive bays, so that is not great. However, a PCI Express 4 port SATA board and some tie wraps will fix that problem.. Obviously, the Windows 8 would go away in exchange for debian testing.

Any better ideas or suggestions? $700 is about the top of my budget. 

Thanks!

Mark
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