[Gllug] Market for low-cost Linux servers/networks?

[Bernard Peek]

In message <3F5F0064.7070709 at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk>, Garry Heaton 
<garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, will wrote:
>
>>> > 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.
>
>> For a hosting company yes however my understanding is that we're
>> discussing providing servers to clients and building a consulting/support
>> offering on top of that.
>
>> Jason Clifford
>> --
>> UKFSN.ORG            Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net
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>
>I was thinking more of the typical small office running 'doze which could do
>with a dedicated network firewall (iptables/PII 350Mhz) and a SAMBA server
>(PIII 450Mhz) for file and printer sharing.

If you can add domain-controller to that list you may do better. That 
saves the cost of a Windows server license, which is a substantial chunk 
of moolah.



-- 
Bernard Peek
London, UK. DBA, Manager, Trainer & Author. Will work for money.


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