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

[Garry Heaton]

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
> --
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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.

Garry



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