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How Do I Put Unused Servers To Work?
olyar writes "I worked for an internet start-up last year and during the 'we have plenty of money' phase, a lot of server hardware was purchased. Eight months later, there is very little money, but we're still plugging along — using only a fraction of the hardware. We just cleared out a co-lo and I now have a stack of 17, 1U servers in my garage. Each of those has 2 servers, each of which is a 2-processor, dual-core box with 8 GB of RAM. Add that up and I have 136 processors and 272 GB of RAM with nothing to do. The IT guy in me thinks that's a waste of FLOPS. The wanna-be businessman in me thinks its probably a waste of money as well. So I've been brainstorming ways to put all of that power to good use. Any ideas?"
Lots and lots of torrents from the empornium.
MABASPLOOM!
Have you thought about just selling the servers?
Just leave the garage door open for a few hours one night, and the problem will probably take care of itself. :)
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Just install XP without any patches on them and hook them up to the internet without a firewall. I can assure you they will be fully utilized in short order.
Great idea! What's your address?
Fire the busboys and have the unused servers bus tables. The bottom line is that you ultimately have to increase patron traffic if you want your business to thrive. Have you considered businessman's lunch specials? Really hot hostesses? Maybe your cook sucks? Change your menu.
More music, fewer hits
You sure that one didn't get up and walk from your garage into your computer room? :)
Porn ALWAYS pays.
give them to me
127.0.0.1
That's just raccoons. Nasty things, always getting into garbage cans...
Chelloveck
I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
Move them from the garage to your living room and use them to heat your home?
127.0.0.1
Oh my god, that moron is running SSH that gives me root access with the same basic password I use! Learn to use a Firewall or use a better password, n00b!
Here comes a big fat rm -rf / {#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER")
My work here is dung.
Step 1: Mirror NNTP server
Step 2: Create web page that offers service
Step 3: Create scripts that send out discs
Step 4: Profit!!!!
CAPS LOCK: ITS LIKE THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOME
That's the same combination as my luggage!
If you can read this, it means that I bothered to log in.
Where are your costumers coming from and when are they leaving
How did you know he works as a clown?
Not even jokes are IPv6 compliant.