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Portables as Servers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the today's-portables-are-yesterday's-servers dept.

vincecate asks: "Do portables make reliable Linux servers? The power on the island where I live is very unreliable. With the screen off the battery should last through a long power outage. I could even put on a UPS and have it last a day. My servers have little load (DNS and some web). Prices on portables are getting reasonable. Can anyone report on using portables as servers?"

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  1. Offshore hosting? by Gyga · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you use such little server space/bandwidth it could be more cost productive to get one of the multiple under $5 plans that some hosting companies have.

    Sadly I have no experiance with portables though.

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  2. laptop = desktop = server by Gothmolly · · Score: 4, Informative

    with some caveats:

    I/O on a laptop likely to suck, due to compromises in HD size/speed/DTR
    limited memory upgradeability...but do you need 16GB in a laptop doing 'light duty' as a server?

    I've run L.A.M.P stuff and Samba on an old K6-400 laptop, and it ran fine.

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  3. Another article by slashflood · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe you'll find some answers here.