Home Servers

[Taavi Burns]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 03:31:56PM -0400, Gary Walsh wrote:
> William O'Higgins wrote:
> >I am looking into serving web and mail from home, but I'd prefer not to
> >use a high power-draw machine like a typical desktop.  Are there
> >inexpensive server appliances that are worth recommending that draw less
> >than 300W?  I recall the Cobalt Qube servers which seemed to do very
> >nicely, but since Sun ate Cobalt they don't seem to make the entry-level
> >non-rack server products any more.
> 
> You might want to check out the Net-Box Linux based appliance servers 
> from http://axentra.com.  I have been using their email and web space 
> service which has the same web based interface as their servers. (You 
> can try it out for free at http://www.axentra.net.)  Axentra is based in 
> Gatineau, Quebec.

Very nice.  However, if you want something even lower-power, don't need
any more digital horses than it provides, and don't mind some geek-fiddling,
you could look for a Netwinder.  At 14W, you can't get much lower power.
General specs are 275MHz StrongARM (yes, you run Linux on this sucker!),
64MB of RAM, and a 10GB HD.

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