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on from the Beastie-the-hedgehog? dept.
Caladan writes "I've been lurking on the NetBSD Port-Dreamcast list, and I took note that someone regularly uses their Dreamcast as a webserver. Let's see if someone can write a Dreamcast emulator for BSD!"
Cool idea, assuming you can find a way to attach hard drives directly to the DCs.
That guy's DC netboots and NFS-mounts root...suppose you could have a whole server farm doing that, but then you're just shifting the cost; you now have to buy beefy netboot servers that Don't Go Down(tm).
Add in that the DC doesn't have much RAM and isn't expandable, and it looks rather grim...but I still love the idea of a rack full of DCs.:)
It would be interesting to see someone or some company use the Dreamcast as web servers behind a load balancer considering that the Dreamcast is fairly inexpensive compared to the cheapest rackmount servers out there.
Another interesting function that the Dreamcast servers could provide would be a mini-gaming server. It might work as a MUD server or as a simple backend server for web-based games, etc.
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Cool idea, assuming you can find a way to attach hard drives directly to the DCs. :)
That guy's DC netboots and NFS-mounts root...suppose you could have a whole server farm doing that, but then you're just shifting the cost; you now have to buy beefy netboot servers that Don't Go Down(tm).
Add in that the DC doesn't have much RAM and isn't expandable, and it looks rather grim...but I still love the idea of a rack full of DCs.
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It would be interesting to see someone or some company use the Dreamcast as web servers behind a load balancer considering that the Dreamcast is fairly inexpensive compared to the cheapest rackmount servers out there.
Another interesting function that the Dreamcast servers could provide would be a mini-gaming server. It might work as a MUD server or as a simple backend server for web-based games, etc.