I make very low-end servers for home-based businesses to put up web pages, do IMAP email, backup files to the network drive, etc. I buy the barebone Microtel desktop (not the servers Walmart also sells) units without OS from Walmart.com for $168 to $199 (because I need economic power on my side to get a rock bottom price and a semi-stable product assortment to choose from). With www.clarkconnect.com's RedHat 9 (soon to be Fedora 3) system software, these things run like water heaters. When's the last time you booted up your water heater?
RAID cards (obsolete LSI Logic Megaraid I4s) come from www.ebay.com. Hard drives and Zalman CPU fans from www.zipzoomfly.com, extra RAM from 18004memory.
*Note* this is an "underengineering" approach to servers. I delight in using the slowest new processor money can buy. Walmart is a big enabler in selling to a tier of server customers that are in terms of cost and technology, beneath the dignity of "normal" server people. No flames please.:-)
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I make very low-end servers for home-based businesses to put up web pages, do IMAP email, backup files to the network drive, etc. I buy the barebone Microtel desktop (not the servers Walmart also sells) units without OS from Walmart.com for $168 to $199 (because I need economic power on my side to get a rock bottom price and a semi-stable product assortment to choose from). With www.clarkconnect.com's RedHat 9 (soon to be Fedora 3) system software, these things run like water heaters. When's the last time you booted up your water heater?
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RAID cards (obsolete LSI Logic Megaraid I4s) come from www.ebay.com. Hard drives and Zalman CPU fans from www.zipzoomfly.com, extra RAM from 18004memory.
*Note* this is an "underengineering" approach to servers. I delight in using the slowest new processor money can buy. Walmart is a big enabler in selling to a tier of server customers that are in terms of cost and technology, beneath the dignity of "normal" server people. No flames please.