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@ValdikSS: The problem with most bandwidth in Russia (including that in datacenters) is that the speed is for national connections only. Can you also get 100 mbit/s to hosts outside Russia?
@ValdikSS hm, maybe the ipv4-addresses are expensive?
But Edis will have LEBs in a month (March this year) http://en.edis.at/virtual-root-server_82.htm
How are you generating 5-8TB Traffic in a month?!
I don't really know, but my ISP got me 2 not-NATed IPs. For free.
I have 3tb anime collection, which I seed in dc++ and ftp and also seeding some random torrents.
Well, you'll get 10-30 mbit/s almost to any european country, but to USA you'll get 2-10 mbit/s.
Some info about p2p. p2p is not only allowed, but forced hard by our ISPs. Like, we have 20000-40000 people online in our ISP dc++ network(only clients from goodline have access). We have catalogues with movies, music, games, etc, and everything is hosted by ISP. Not by users, but by ISP itself.
Well, I think, the only thing which is prohibited - child pornography.
o_O
Thats actually pretty smart by the ISP, that way they can greatly reduce the amount of data leaving/entering their network.
Sounds actually a bit like in the "old times" when ISPs hosted Usenet servers for their customers
+1 O_o!
Wow, Russia!?!?
It used to be same here, I was the main interconnect node of 4 neighbourhood nets (made by ppl putting together for sharing a big net connection) with like 100-400 ppl each. They had CS servers, storage for movies and stuff, there was nothing forbidden, but, of course, that was never some kind of official ISP.
They dont exist like that anymore, but there are now some official small areas ISPs grown from that which have game servers, IRC, many things, but dont store illegal files anymore, just offer DC for their customers only.
It was the time of wild east in the internetz here, now it moved further east, it seems
Regarding home servers and processors, of course, if you need computing power to transcode videos and stuff, fine, but I never use my servers as anything else. As such, low power CPU is important, even at high load because it runs VMs that are always active.
YMMV.
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just borrowed an energy meter today,
my hp quadcore desktop just downloading and running the os:
0.5A 220V 80-90W
Home File Server
Intel Celeron Dual-Core E3400
2GB DDR2
5TB Storage
Here you go
I was going to make a home server out of an old laptop, but I managed to get the motherboard to light on fire...
Seriously? How.
Haha, well after I got the OS installed and SSH set up, I removed the GPU module from the laptop motherboard (I wanted a headless server - GPUs were too power hungry), two pins on the strip that connects to the GPU module got bent, sparked, and lit on fire the next time I put power in.
It actually worked out pretty well, I took the CPU and ram out of it, and installed it into another laptop (both had penryn c2d's).
Haha. That takes some talent :P
I really don't have much.
My home server is a DD-WRT router. It does everything from showing me traceroutes to storing some files via ssh. Mainly passwords and private data. It also has psybnc installed. My cable modem, router, netbook (Charged) and 22" (Brightness down) monitor use only 40watts on the UPS as well.
http://i.imgur.com/p4yOa.jpg
bottom of my desk.
Ah the good old home server! Brings me back to the good old days when I had a Pentium box in the attic to host a couple of friends' websites from school! It was that, that really got me hungry to do it for real in a proper datacentre...
That, as well as reading a page on the UK2.net website about their colo facility which used to do Cobalt servers.
Good times
Haha, I can't believe this post is actually this popular.. Anyways, my netbook server's uptime is getting much better.
@DotVPS Good idea, I will add a pic of my setup soon. 
jeffrey@Shark:~$ uptime
16:28:17 up 48 days,
I think all of our home servers have looked like that at one time or another. Hell, cases are optional these days.
It's not a bad idea except that netbooks are known for their overheating after 12+ hours of use. I have a script that monitors the temps on my HP 2133 and sends me an e-mail if the temps get to high, then I can remote in from my phone and power it down. So far I haven't had the need to but I don't run it for more than 2 days since it's only for testing. Might be worth picking up a $20 cooling bad that's USB powered though, it works wonders for both of my netbooks if you don't mind the noise (pricier ones are more quiet but any airflow is good, I even disabled one of my fans on mine to reduce the noise and it still works great).
I've had plans on running my old netbook in our rack at GoRACK but I keep forgetting to bring it.
Probably better off just getting an atom desktop, something like:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220144
3 USB ports, and an eSata port, would be decent for hosting music/movies.
Netbooks have a built-in battery backup and a monitor/keyboard if you need to access it locally.
I never had issues and my netbook is a atom
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@DotVPS, If you want the netbook server, go for it! Most netbooks these days are priced well under $300 and they all usually have 1GB or more RAM which is ideal and most of them priced at that have more than a 100GB HDD. Mine unfortunately has terrible specs, but it hasn't overheated yet and has terrific uptime!
@Jeffrey My AMD Phenom II X6 3.2GHz server with 4GB RAM was around $400.
Same here, I think those that overheat need some cleaning.
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http://imgur.com/eqf27
This is my monstrosity. Can't figure out what to use it for cause its so noisy and expensive to run
Colocate and host open-source p0rnographic content.
There's nowhere near me that does colocation. Colocation would be too expensive for me anyway because I think it uses nearly 2A