[ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a small, cheap, ubuntu staging computer/server?

Rob Beard rob at esdelle.co.uk
Fri Sep 16 16:51:21 UTC 2011


On 16/09/11 11:40, doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- what box would people recommend for setting up a small, cheap
> staging Ubuntu web server?
> It would pretty much only be needed to test deploys before we push them
> live.
> Thanks for any & all advice,
>     Doug.
>

If you don't need anything too fancy, the HP ProLiant MicroServer might 
do the job.  It's got a dual core AMD Athlon II Neo N37L CPU which runs 
at 1.3GHz, 1GB Ram (upgradeable to about 8GB) and a 250GB hard drive 
with 4 hot swap bays and a 5.25" bay which can house an extra hard drive 
or optical drive, and an eSATA port.

It's £230 at the moment at eBuyer and it also has £100 cashback on it, 
so after cash back you're looking at £130!

http://www.ebuyer.com/253305-hp-proliant-athlon-ii-neo-n36l-microserver-100-cashback-633724-421

I have one myself, it's a nice little box, runs Ubuntu 10.04 LTS happily 
with KVM on top running a VM (I have 3GB Ram in mine, I added 1 x 
Kingston 2GB DDR3 ECC DIMM, quickfind code: 169804).

Rob



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