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waloshin
July 14th, 2009, 05:28 AM
Now I know servers are not supposed to be ran in bedrooms or even homes. So I have a Hp Proliant dl 140 sevrer in my room it sounds like a hair blow dryer. I was wondering if I put ear plugs in at night time would I still loose hearing, or even go deaf? Any suggestions, I would put it in a closet , but the only closet would be the one in the living room and nobody would want to hear the thing all day long. I was also wondering, could I set it up as wakeup on lan? Would it shutdown after the request was done? If not thats alright. It will be running as a webserver for kicks!

Options:

A) By the best reuseable ear plugs for under $50.00

B) Sell the server and use a desktop as the server.

Server Specs:

Hp Proliant dl 140

2 x (3.2ghz Intel Xeon 512 kb cache L2 Hyper Threaded)Seen as 4 cpus

2 gb of ddr pc2100 ecc ram

tgalati4
July 14th, 2009, 06:13 AM
Build a server room. Xeons generate a lot of heat.

Generally, servers run 24/7. The default ubuntu server install does not contain standby modules so no wake on lan.

Your best bet is to get a quiet desktop.