VinylPusher
November 5th, 2006, 09:12 PM
So, I just cobbled together a machine from various parts and ended up with:
P2-450
384MB PC133 SDRAM
Nvidia Riva TNT AGP video card (I kid you not!).
I've also got a collection of various HD's between 60 and 120GB in size.
Now that I've got the thing, I don't know what to do with it. Thoughts so far: -
1) Mailserver.
2) Caching DNS server.
3) Webserver.
4) File server.
The thing is, I don't really need any of the above.
A mailserver would give me what kind of advantage? I have hosting to handle most mail and two gmail accounts for everything else.
Caching DNS server would be a waste of power. My page load times are fast enough already.
Webserver. Again, I already have hosting. Plus, I've only got about 80KB/s outbound bandwidth.
Fileserver. I've got a 300GB drive in my workstation. That drive is a lot newer than the spares I'd be putting in the new box, so using it as a backup seems a bit daft. I've got a DVD-RW for backups in any case.
What shall I do with it? It's not really worth much to sell (I've no monitor, keyboard or mouse I can sell with it). Bearing in mind that I watch my power usage, so anything I *do* use it for, it's got to earn its way!
P2-450
384MB PC133 SDRAM
Nvidia Riva TNT AGP video card (I kid you not!).
I've also got a collection of various HD's between 60 and 120GB in size.
Now that I've got the thing, I don't know what to do with it. Thoughts so far: -
1) Mailserver.
2) Caching DNS server.
3) Webserver.
4) File server.
The thing is, I don't really need any of the above.
A mailserver would give me what kind of advantage? I have hosting to handle most mail and two gmail accounts for everything else.
Caching DNS server would be a waste of power. My page load times are fast enough already.
Webserver. Again, I already have hosting. Plus, I've only got about 80KB/s outbound bandwidth.
Fileserver. I've got a 300GB drive in my workstation. That drive is a lot newer than the spares I'd be putting in the new box, so using it as a backup seems a bit daft. I've got a DVD-RW for backups in any case.
What shall I do with it? It's not really worth much to sell (I've no monitor, keyboard or mouse I can sell with it). Bearing in mind that I watch my power usage, so anything I *do* use it for, it's got to earn its way!