Do you have a "server" running at your house?

[Nagaru]

Just curious how many people here run a server at there house for files, music, etc.? Also, did you build is specifically or is it just an old machine?

 

[FarFarAway]

Not right now no. But if I did I'd use my spare PC

 

[JN]

I used to have 3 servers in my living room - Mail, Web & DNS. They all kinda got merged into one server which is now colocated in London and hosting parts of OC3D

 

[Nagaru]

Oh nice, guess I may as well say what I have, I have an old 800MHz T-Bird, that kinda does everything, it runs gentoo.

 

[FragTek]

Well past, present and future is all different here as well.

I used to have a Quad Xeon server in my room which I used for F@H and hosting CSS servers + the USA SX email exchange back in the day.

Currently I'm using my 3ghz P4 Dell which I just slapped another gig of RAM in not long ago as my server. It works out fairly well. It runs fab with both Nix and 2k3, currently running 2k3.

 

[Mr. Popo]

Don't have the hardware/bandwidth for it.

 

[ionicle]

old Athlon XP system, 512 ram, onboard graphics, stuck a 200Gb hard drive in there, that has everything on it

 

[Mr. Popo]

Getting an old computer is not a problem, but high bandwidth internet connection cost a lot around here.

 

[Ham]

Tis an idea ive played around with but id need at leat 1TB of storage if i were to build one

 

[Nagaru]

Tis an idea ive played around with but id need at leat 1TB of storage if i were to build one

I fail to see the problem jk, believe it or not mine had 5 hard drives in it totaling about 120 gigs, just recently put 2 320 gigs in.

 

[PV5150]

Yep got an old P3 here running Ubuntu as my server.

 

[Rastalovich]

I`m gathering bits as we speak to build another home-pc-server. Llwyd was stripping down a mobo with a nice handful of raid connections etc to sell so I can shuffle meh stuff about and make a pc for some1 else.. think he may be lost in the christmas shopping crowd tho >.< lol

Old pc used as a storage base is great as u can mess about with u`r gaming/work pc to u`r hearts content, safe in the knowledge that as soon as u`ve installed the OS, all the previous files are readily available.

I`d like to get more into active directory things and deployment, so I can have a simple build OS cd for install and dispatch installs as required. Keep it up to date and so on, to save messing about.

 

[mVp24]

Yepp turned our old Pentium 4 630 HT with 1gb ddr2 ram into a triple OS server with XP redhat and 2000 server yupppp

 

[Dav0s]

actually I need a favour from someone with a server, PM me if you feel like being nice

 

[Bal3Wolf]

got a old celly 1100 here overclocked to 1230 its had linux and windows right now goin back to linux debian.

 

[Toxcity]

I have an OLD PIII running as storage and as crappy folder..