[ubuntu-uk] Home Servers

[Darren.Mansell at opengi.co.uk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Daubney
> Sent: 02 October 2007 20:19
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
> 
> James Grabham wrote:
> > If its an internet connection it will be Mb (mega bits) not MB (mega
> > bytes) 8 bits in a byte ergo 8 megabits in a megabyte.  :]
> >
> > Oh, and your server - whats the power consumption on that thing!?
> >
> >
> Unfortunatley at the moment I'm stuck with the boxes I have and this
one
> happened to be my old gaming desktop. The other boxes I have would be
> fine as a webserver, but pants as a fileserver as they all have very
> small (4gb) HD's. The gaming box has SATA drives and the other ones
are
> IDE so a swap around is a no go.
> 
> If another lower spec box turns up then I'll nab it, but I can't
afford
> to buy any new bits at the moment,  so I'm stuck with what I have!
> 
> -Matt Daubney
> 
> --

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.)