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
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Subject: Re: Looking for Advice on a New Server
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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 -
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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