Yeah, I can feel them cringing all the way over here!  ;-)

 

For many years I ran my email server at home over a 56k dialup dynamic
IP link using a 486 box.  Probably had less than 1M of ram!  Notice
EMAIL only J, though

 

I'm working on turning an old Acer Revo box into a backup server at
home.  It has an Atom processor with a spot for a laptop hard drive
inside as well as an eSATA connector.  I'm going to install Linux on it,
put my 3TB drive on the eSATA link, and have it back up the world at
home.  Might be slower than an i7, but it's CHEAP and will run at night
anyway. 

 

Yeah, cheap can still be useful J

 

 

From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of keith
smith
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:08 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Looking for Advice on a New Server

 

...


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@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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