[sclug] Cheap low-end servers

[David Given]

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Hey, look, I'm still subscribed to the mailing list. Yes, I know I haven't 
really done anything or been to a meeting or even said anything for the best 
part of a year, but hey, I'm still subscribed...

I've just moved house. I now have an ADSL connection with the excellent A&A 
ISP, and am now legally allowed to run servers. (As opposed to my old NTL 
connection, where I wasn't, but did anyway.) My server, tiar (a.k.a 
gate.cowlark.com) is currently a P166 Pentium with 48MB of RAM, and is 
definitely showing its age.

(For example, while it does really well at shuffling email via SMTP, I've just 
installed the Neomail webmail package. This takes several seconds to do 
*anything*, just for the time it takes to load and parse the perl script.)

So, can anyone suggest where I might be able to get a new server? Cheap, 
small, quiet, low power.

tiar is currently a laptop. I like laptops for servers. They're low power, low 
footprint, quiet, and have a builtin UPS. They don't need a seperate keyboard 
and mouse. Ideally I would like to keep using a laptop, but upgrade to 
something in the three or four hundred megahertz range and space for a few 
hundred megs of RAM.

I also need at least two PCMCIA slots. USB a bonus, Firewire a bonus, built-in 
ethernet would be really, really nice because that would free up a PCMCIA 
slot. More than one drive bay would be a godsend.

Can anyone suggest anything, or suggest where I might be able to look?

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+- David Given --McQ-+ "[One shot of the Death Star's superlaser has
|  dg at cowlark.com    | enough power] to send Marty McFly to the Big Bang
| (dg at tao-group.com) | and back 1.4x10^29 times." --- William Clifford
+- www.cowlark.com --+ 
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