I have been having a bit of a think anyway so I am probably going to go for something like this:
Main Server: Dual Athlon MP 2200's s462, 2GB ECC Registered RAM.
I will be upgrading this machine with a PCI GigE NIC, 2x DVB-S Tuners, 1x PSDN Card and 1x 4 Port SATA Controller (PCI).
That will use up all 5 of my available PCI slots. I would have preferred to use one of the 2 SCSI channels (or both) to setup the disk array, but the cost of SCSI disks compared to SATA simply makes it more viable to get a SATA controller.
This box will run as:
Mail Server (SMTP and IMAP)
Web Server for Blog, Gallery and other projects
Asterisk Server
MythTV Master Backend Media Server
NFS Server
My Desktop
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo Core, 2GB DDR400, Dual Graphics and Dual LCD.
This box will run as
A desktop instead of server
MythTV Frontend
Then the HTPC in the lounge will get another 2 DVB-S tuners and will run as a MythTV Slave Backend, giving us a 4 tuner MythTV system. It will also run MythTV Frontend. The whole system will be plugged into the HD LCD TV.
The two HTPC's in the bedrooms will just be regular Ubuntu boxes with MythTV Frontend running, the displays will be HD LCD TVs.
The iPAQ will continue to run as its own web server for the LiPAX project.
There will be 2 networks, the main network running on Public IPs and then the inner network running on gigE and either NAT'd to Private IP space or running their own Public IPs.
I think thats about the most sensible setup I can come up with at the moment.
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