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For a low-traffic personal web + mail + ftp server, would you get a $20/month VPS at #linode or would you host it at home? !linux !debian
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3rd option: maybe try a free Amazon Web Services account - http://ur1.ca/6azh0 - for web + ftp and Google Apps for the mail ?
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@mvdan Doing $10 a month for VPS on Dreamhost for just that. My cable provider isn't reliable enough to host from home :-/
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@mvdan you should be able to do it for around $10 a month. It will cost you more to run it at home! Power bill, even on low power box.
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@mvdan check out http://ur1.ca/6b2zy - and if you do want spend $20 screw Linode go with #ARPnetworks.
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Power bill is my main concern. Plus I've read desktops are not prepared to run 24/7.
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Nothing is for free :-)
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Very interestjng! Should I take kvm, xen or openvz? I'd go with the first one, but they're hard to find.
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@mvdan I run FreeBSD on an E-350 board with a caviar-green drive and an 80+ PSU. Only fan is in PSU and CPU heatsink is COLD
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True. But if I am looking for a low-end server, power consumption is an issue.
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Where do you find a low-power server machine? Desktops are not the best for it afaik.
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There are low power, or very low power systems out there: "plug computers", low power server (VIA, fanless), minit-ATX even a netbook.. : ]
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@mvdan Not too sure about where to get those but it sure lookds like a greate use case for http://ur1.ca/47o8r
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@mvdan You can use desktops 24/7. Laptops too...
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@mvdan For example, this desktop box is silent. More power-friendly boxes exist, tho. http://eracks.com/products/Desktops/config?sku=LEAF
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@mvdan I run a personal server from home that includes web page asterisk and email with a few other things on a netbook.
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@mvdan I have checked the power consumption and for the router, dsl modem, and netbook the power consumption is less than 30 watts.
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@mvdan For me the increase flexibility and increased privacy of running my own server make it well worth the effort
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That is about three euros here. Although I have a tower, not a netbook. That'd consume more power.
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I won't have another server at home, if you value your time, it's a burden to maintain hw, besides the connection and power issues.
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Outsourcing is evil. Seriously, I had more downtime on VPS than on home server. What about buying low-power computer? I have Intel D945GSEJT
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My desktop has a mini ITX motherboard. With the proper setup, you can get under 100 W.
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@mvdan Yes that would consume significantly more it might be worth looking at getting a small netbook type computer.
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Buying a low-power computer and hosting at home is more efficient in the long run, yes. But for now my home upload speed is highly limited.
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Wouldn't it get too hot?
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@mvdan Even an old laptop would consume less than the tower. so if you have an old laptop around you might want to re purposes it.
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@mvdan You can build a tower that consumes less power and puts out less heat if you know what you're doing.
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@mvdan don't you have root access on some academic/research/other edu server? ;)
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Nope, still in high school.
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My desktop is all I have for now.
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That looks promising. I shall try it soon :-) I've always thought a small desktop w/ debian could be both my router and my server at home.
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True ... Free to get started and cost rises with use. Still very cheap. EC2 runs virtual !Linux machines and S3 can serve static websites.
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I ran a home netbook server for about 2 years but recently moved website to S3 ... wrote short #howto http://ur1.ca/6bm78
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isn't Amazon like... Evil ? Get a netbook/low power something.. OR get a server and share it with friends (create vservers, xen, etc)
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I use http://ur1.ca/6bzts in my server (got it 2 months) runs silent and cold (to the touch). 1 pcie, but 6 sata 6gbps ports and no cpu fan.
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Mine run 24/7 for years & years without issue, save the occasional reboot for a kernel update.
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Running it in your home is better; the alternative is to close to SaaS for my tastes. No need to outsource.
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If your upload rate is at least on the order of 1 Mbps, it's comparable to any budget VPS. I'm running a server in my house on 500 kbps up.
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Thinking now... maybe if I take out the cd drive, the video card and the tower fan out of my current desktop, it could be my server.
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Boxes are cheap, especially if it's for a one-person server.
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You can always take the money you were thinking of giving to a third party and apply it to your hardware fund.
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I'd love to see a great tutorial/article on setting up a home server for folks who've never done that before. #lazyweb
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Step 1: Install a fully free GNU+Linux distro. Step 2: Configure to run the software you want, Step 3: There is no step 3.
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Okay; perhaps I'll write something.
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I thought step 3 was profit? Some expansion on step 2 would def. be welcome. Also, step 0, "choose appropriate hardware" wouldn't hurt.
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