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Server Ambitions

Published on February 13, 2009 in Auto and Technology. 1 Comment Tags: , .

I have written about this before, but sometimes I have a hard time containing my ambitions. A few months ago, I was focused (a more fair assessment might say obsessed) with car audio. So, Dan and I resolved to increase our automotive skills this summer. Great, I am happy I now have a time to focus my passion and get some results.

The problem has come back in a new and improved form. My website hosting service is about to expire in a few weeks. I have a decision to make. I definitely want to keep my domain, but I don’t know if I want to maintain the hosting service. Dan and I have been talking about servers back and forth for a while. Up for Grabs is hosted from his apartment. I have some server experience, but do not know if I want to commit to this. It would save me a lot of money a year though.

Also, it could solve another problem for me. I have been wanting to have a NAS connected to my network to backup sensitive files.

I have been considering ways to do this while maintaining low power consumption, so as not to offset cost savings. Right now, I leave my computer on a lot to download…err..news…from usenet. I could save power by running a usenet client on this lower powered machine. Even more savings!

The problem? I’d have to build and run this thing. This is what I’ve been thinking about so far. A low cost, low power Intel Atom board. The board and CPU with an onboard graphics chip cost $80. Super cheap and Atom has been shown to work well, especially with Linux. DDR2 is super cheap, add on another $20. Slickdeals has had some amazing hard drive deals on a 1.5 TB Seagate drive. I could get two of those for $160 and have approx 3 TB of storage. That would be a very stable capacity for the long term. That is a lot up front, but would ensure future ease of use, increase reliability by having two drives, and lower power consumption by decreasing the number of drives I would have to add in the future. Furthermore, it would enable me to have a smaller case.

Lastly, the case, the form factor for the Atom board mini-ITX has relatively expensive cases, but we could expect around $100 including a PSU. About $400 for a NAS with 3 TB of storage and a home server. All running in an environment that optimizes electricity use. Sounds like a great idea right?

Yeah…I agree…Now I need to scrap up the money and commit to it.

You might say use an old computer…Sadly, the only old computer I have barely and I mean barely runs Ubuntu. Also, it is loud as a mf-er.

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  1. Tony Schwab posted the following on February 16, 2009 at 6:08 am.

    Do it!

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