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http://81.12.174.83/homeserver.jpg As I promised, my main home server
Sorry for delay, only now needed to do something on it and remembered.
M
Nothing fancy, just a nice Compaq with a broken VGA port that I got for free
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 1.86GHz (Replaced a Pentium dual core, eh)
RAM: 2GB DDR2
Hard drive: 320GB Internal, 1TB External
Misc: Gigabit PCI card to Linksys E3000
Model: Compaq-Presario KJ384AA-ABA
ISP: Comcast (Horrible, but the only semi-decent one we can get)
Operating system: CentOS 6 (Was on CentOS 5 at first, then Debian, then CentOS again)
Used to have 50 days uptime, before we repainted the room it was in and had to unplug it/the router and modem temporarily, but currently:
[root@desktop ~]$ uptime
04:09:49 up 1 day, 10:06, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.05
[root@desktop ~]$
Runs uShare to stream to Xbox 360, Samba to share with all other computers, and a few random crons to do some silly monitoring stuff, also has a few random ISOs/executables for Windows from random computer jobs
Seagate Dockstar with 500gb external hdd
Archlinuxarm on a 4gb usb stick. 128mb ram. Works fine for openvpn, bitlbee, dm-crypt, pyLoad for downloading and video streaming via sshfs.
Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l)
BogoMIPS : 1191.11
Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp
CPU implementer : 0x56
CPU architecture: 5TE
CPU variant : 0x2
CPU part : 0x131
CPU revision : 1
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
Cool one ! o:
I bet alienware are hiding in their corner...
M
1.8Ghz x2 Intel CPU
2Gb DDR2 RAM
60Gb Corsair SSD
I connected this 5 year old laptop (Around $1,500 when we purchased it) to my network, and use it as a RDP. I mainly use Mac, so it's handy for applications I can't run.
Laptop is a Sony Vaio.
I'm running 3 Dockstars with Dockstar Debian. 2 with external HDs and serving as NASes. One's a torrentbox, one for nzbs, and one's screen/irssi 24/7. The great thing is that each one draws about 6 to 8 watts (including the HD power). The base Dockstars are specced the same as alfredino's, above.
Getting the Dockstars going gave me a head start on learning my way around VPSes, as well as giving me a distinct preference for running Debian on servers (although my desktops/laptops run Ubuntu).
I've had various homeservers from old Dell's to Acer Revo's and custom built Atom systems. Now I just use a Synology DS410 /w 4x 1.5TB Samsung drives. As much as I like having a machine to play with, it does everything I need and is small enough to stick in a bag and take onsite if I need to dump large amounts of data.
I've got a Dell 1950 III that I'm now using just to do software upgrade testing for my hosting business, what is nice is that I can do all that on various VPS configurations. I'll probably retire the old laptop DNS server and make a DNS VPS for the house, and a new cacti VPS that I use for collecting stats off my production servers. I use monitis for critical items, but I like cacti for stats and it's rarely down plus it's free
About two days ago (Sunday) I had the chance to setup my old desktop as a home server, so I did and so far I am loving it! I can finally retire my netbook server! You can load a small .HTML page from my home server here: http://server.jeffthecomputergeek.com. My home server is now a Compaq S5300NX with 1GB DDR Ram, Intel Pentium 4 2.40Ghz, 120GB HDD.
You have me beat: http://kujoe.is-a-geek.com
I run an old HP dl380 G4 at home.
Two 2.8Ghz Pen. 4 Xeon
6Gb ram
6 - 73Gb -10K drives ( Raid 5 I think)
6Gb ram
6 - 73Gb -10K drives ( Raid 5 I think)
Ouch, I can only imagine the power usage.
So, uh, don't you worry about, um...damage to your gear from...you know...vibrations?
@charliecron, your name reminds me of old Unix OS that called its root user "Charlie Root" (that was the name for 'root' in /etc/passed). It was a commercial OS from the early/mid 90s. SunOS 4.x perhaps?
BTW, I really have no excuse for not having a house stuffed with old gear, because you can get pretty much as many old computers as you want in Portland for free...just make some out of donated parts for others and every fifth one you make is yours to take home for free:
http://www.freegeek.org
"Helping the Needy Get Nerdy". Pretty cool organization.
LoL, it's under my futon in my office, not in my master bedroom. ;P
Got a 32TB array doing the work of one, it's nice enough =3=
Small home server
Core2duo
8gb ddr2
2x1tb
I started keeping all of my stuff on secure systems on the Internet instead of local servers (3 datacenter minimum for everything, regardless of importance). Joke was on me. Moral of the story is when you have 30mbit cable in the middle of no where with a year of 99% uptime, you're just that much closer to another year of 10mbit cable with a 40% uptime. I stuck with my plan, just now my stuff is inaccessible to me by anything other than 3G 60% of the time
Lol your telling me, I think its near 1200-1300 watts between it's two power supplies. I put it into a dynamic lower powerf mode to try to curve it a bit.
BTW everyone, how many Watts will a standard P4 computer comsume being on 24/7? How much should I expect my electricity bill to go up? It's a Pentium 4 2.50Ghz from about 2004.
The CPU alone would be 120ish watts when idle - You probably want to check that out.
Then add the motherboard, disk drives, inefficiency of the PSU, and you've got a lovely money burner.
@Jeffrey
I'd have stuck with the netbook if I was you
@jeffery If you average out the peak and off peak hours I'm guessing probably $10 or less..
@earl $10 or less per year/day/hour?
@titanicsaled Why? Just because of power usage? Well, this desktop is far more powerful than my netbook and so far it is A LOT faster on my end.
This is my new dedi server.
Just a noob little phenom 3.2ghz 8gb ddr3 server to work on localhost :P
Sorry about that.. I'm guessing it's about $10 per month or less.. (at 6.5 - 12 kwh)
I'm saying more like $15
@TheHackBox $15/Month!?! Are you serious??