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Low-Powered Personal Servers?

Posted by Cliff on from the less-noise-less-footprint-less-impact dept.

antifoidulus asks: "Being the proud owner of a PowerBook, I have but one complaint when it comes to my computing experience: the lack of an 'always-on' web/database server that would allow me to work on some personal programming projects, since I don't like having my PowerBook on 24/7. I could just buy an Intel box, but looking at some of the horror stories of how much power P4s consume, and living in Germany where electricity is not cheap, I wanted to see what suggestions the Slashdot community has for low-cost, low-power, headless servers. My only requirements are that it can run Linux and preferably cost less than $500. Is this possible? What architecture should I go with?"

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  1. Localhost by Alethes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is there any reason you can't run the web and database servers locally on your laptop so that it's always available when you need it, but not using power otherwise?