[Gllug] Market for low-cost Linux servers/networks?
will
will at hellacool.co.uk
Wed Sep 10 09:34:27 UTC 2003
Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Garry Heaton wrote:
>
>
>>Is there a market for low-cost Linux servers running on old hardware? Whilst
>>it's a great hobby I'd like to be able to earn a few bob for my labours,
>>considering the amount of time I've put in learning how to configure and
>>administer the standard set of Linux services.
>
>
> Given the low cost and attractive small profile of mini-itx systems I'd
> strongly recommend using those instead of old kit.
Or use a few decent servers and run UML instances on them. The clients
get low powered servers and you get reliability and economy
(power/space). There seem to be a few people using UML for hosting now.
Will.
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