I wanna know what’s would be a suitable HW(HW parametrs : RAM, CPU) for some home server. I wanna use it as VPN,SSH mail server (maybe I wanna use it for virtualization also ??), so what’d be the optimal requirements for that purpose. And if I want run virtual machine on that HW (but just for doing some experiments not for virtualizing servers), would it be enough to’ve 8GB RAM and CPU supporting virtualization (maybe some 1 GB GPU)? I was runnin virtualbox on my thinkpad R500 dual core 2,5Mhz; 4GB it was runnin OK but bit slow.
On 2014-06-26 11:56, roberto68 wrote:
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> I wanna know what’s would be a suitable HW(HW parametrs : RAM, CPU) for
> some home server. I wanna use it as VPN,SSH mail server (maybe I wanna
> use it for virtualization also ??), so what’d be the optimal
> requirements for that purpose.
My 24/7 home server is just an old laptop, with the bottom cover
removed, and sitting on top of a wide and silent fan, one of those
designed for laptops, but powered directly via a mains-usb adaptor (to
reduce load on the laptop power supply). This fan cools ram chips and
hard disk, besides a bit of the cpu (the cpu own fan just powers up now
and then, on demand).
It has only 500 MB ram, small internal disk (40 GB), and large external
disk via usb. CPU is just a Pentium IV, single core, and most of the
time does almost nothing.
This suffices for all your requirements - except virtualization, which I
do not use (I use it instead on my main desktop machine).
One of my requirements for a home server is low power use, and old
laptops fulfill that and are cheap. Mine I got free, a friend dumped it.
I simply replaced the broken HD for a new one. It is a compact solution,
keyboard and display are included - not an absolute need, but I can
check the server while no other machine is running (ie, no machine
available to sit and do ssh to the server).
Otherwise, I would consider a small barebones box.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
robin_listas have a very valid point. Power consumption for a computer (home server) that stays on 24/7 at home. I have a AMD Athlon II X4 630, 3 HD’s and 12GB Ram as home server. It 's overkill and power hungry except when I have one (always) or several more WM running on it. Then I appreciate the machine.
I have been thinking and looked on Raspberry PI, small itx’s and so on. Next step is to learn more about docker at the home server and run temp WM on my main DE.
Regards