[ubuntu-uk] Home Servers

[Kris Douglas]

On 03/10/2007, Philip Newborough <mail at philipnewborough.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 03/10/2007, Mark Harrison <Mark at yourpropertyexpert.com> wrote:
> > Darren.Mansell at opengi.co.uk wrote:
> > > I've got a laptop with a broken screen as my home server. Got it for
> > > free from a family member but they are dirt cheap and fleabay. Its got
> > > 80GB storage, integrated UPS, (very) low power consumption and with
> > > speedstep enabled on the CPU and laptop-mode enabled on the hard disk
> > > its very quiet. Ideal home server even if I say so myself ;). Of
> course
> > > it can't do stuff like be a MythTV backend but it streams media
> happily
> > > enough. Oh and it has wifi built in so I can put it anywhere with a
> > > power outlet. (on a shelf somewhere or in a cupboard.
> > I have a number of mates who install "home automation" stuff (web
> > control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.)
> >
> > Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the "home control servers"
> > because of their ability to handle short power outages gracefully!
> >
> > For my home servers, I use some Via ITX stuff from www.linitx.com
> >
> Talking of laptops for servers, I purchased an old and quite battered
> Satellite Pro laptop from  a local place that deals with redundant
> City Council equipment. I paid £50 for it and use it to run Ubuntu
> server 6.06 LTS. I've had it about a year now, it runs my cron jobs
> [the main reason I bought it] and SSH server so that I can connect to
> my home network when at work. It's battery holds just enough charge to
> keep it going through a power cut -- which beats having to get an
> expensive UPS.
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I've always thought about that, think of the money you could save and the
space you could save if you used laptops as servers, you can stack them 4
high and have all you need. They have batteries for backup and you can get
250gig drives for them, what more could you need? Oh yea, integrated display
, keyboard and mouse.....

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Kris Douglas
      Softdel Limited Hosting Services

      Web: www.softdel.net
      Mail: kris at softdel.net
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