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- tavisjohn, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I use an inexpensive laptop to do my dedicated "server" tasks. It consumes little power, has almost no noise and heat, and with an external USB drive has loads of storage space. It also takes up little physical space!
- Guspaz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4A dedicated server might not necessarily be in the house. Roughly $20 per month gets you a pretty darned hefty VPS solution that is more useful than having the box in your house for bandwidth/electricity/heat/stability reasons.
- N3wtR0ckn13, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8this is a pretty bad list actually...there is nothing to any of these installs. how about setting up a NAS, samba server, or running your own NAT router, maybe running a mirror, game server. Subversion okay, useful. Hamichi is cool, but openVPN would teach you something.
- Dokument, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6if mine wern't loaded down with porn (pun intended) downloads then these might be useful
- MattB123, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Yeah, pretty cool. Nothing revolutionary but a good solid list.
- TRENT310, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Distributed Computing programs use MORE power than if it weren't, because computers use less power and generate less heat in an idle state. I know those projects want you to think that you're wasting CPU cycles, but sometimes it can actually double your machine's power consumption when you have them running.
- misterjangles, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4this is a great way to put old hardware to use too. something that's too slow to use as a desktop workstation can make a perfect subversion server, backup server, etc.
- arcticblue, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I got a Linode account (www.linode.com). It's about $20 a month, but you get your own virtual server to do whatever you want with. I used mine for SSH tunneling WoW in Iraq and also hosting my family website. Learned alot and it was worth every penny.
- mikm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If you have a pair at different IP addresses, setting them up to do nstx (IP-over-DNS) might be useful.
- BassJunkie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I was just about to add a comment like this! I to use an old laptop that one of the sites I work on was discarding as it's been replaced with a newer model! It's nothing fantastic and in all honesty could do with some extra ram but it does the job great! I picked up a USB2.0 PCMCIA card for it and caddied up an old hdd to provide extra storage and have got it running Torrentflux and Firefly for downloading and music sharing respectively. I did also have it set up to retrieve and virus/spam scan my mail but the poor little thing was struggling under the load so I had to un-install those services now!
- tibbon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4I've found that in general a dedicated standard form factor computer consumes (and wastes) too much energy, creates too much noise/heat and overall just isn't that efficient for me. Then again, I live in a very small place and I'm concerned about waste a good bit.
What I've found that's a happy medium however is using my router (WRT54GS) with an alternate linux firmware (like DD-WRT) and a NAS drive does the trick. I had the router on anyway and it's more than powerful enough to run small tasks like FTP for me. - Lylepalooza, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I set up one in my office originally to be a print server to speed up printing, but now it's also a fax server (saves paper and electricity as it is operating anyway, plus frees up a fax machine for someone else) and it also runs Distributed Computing programs (Once again, if it is going to be operating and using electricity it may as well do something useful). I'm sure there is much more that could be added to the Lifehacker list, but some good examples are there.
- wwnexc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2What's a good free (or cheap) SSH account site, which allows port forwarding?
- bullox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Very useful for free web at airports, etc - any place that charges you for web. Most of those places will resolve dns, but won't allow you to pass traffic. There's the hint.
- DontGiveADamn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Get a miniITX motherboard. I run one that is fanless with a laptop hard drive and it only uses 14 watts. Since it's on 24/7 I can use it to host my personal web site, run bittorrent, and access my files when I'm away from home.
- Tweekster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Seedbox
- PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0So the article suggests you use a torrent program on a remote server and get kicked off? I don't think so. What has happened here is you have assumed you knew what the author meant and you know what happens when you assume...
- determined, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Agreed!!!!!!There is one link that provide some good tips for remote server however http://www.petri.co.il/remotely_enable_remote_desk ...
- Zuhaib, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Yeah, some good tips but everything is for Window's pretty much. #1 should be using Linux or any type of *Nix system as a server. You know something is wrong when you need to install Cygwin.
- roguepuppy, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3LOL. "a dedicated standard form factor computer" - nothing like using trendy phrases instead of normal speak :)
- PJBovoNox, on 11/03/2007, -1/+0I don't use a server to 'learn', I use it to 'serve stuff'.
- PJBovoNox, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Yeah, unless you don't like *nix in which case Windows is perfect. Did you ever consider that?
- monkeywaffles, on 10/10/2007, -6/+2this is awful.. the fact this made front page is even worse. you all should check the article before clicking the digg button..
yea, the title is good.. that doesn't constitute a digg worthy story.
what is this, amateur hour? - Coligny, on 10/10/2007, -4/+0Agreed, if you have no clue what to do with a remote computer... shut it down, you will lose a bragging right but maybe it will prevent you from too much beeing a tool... that need it's home server (but someone to tell him what to do with)... and a dremel to use a computer (because without side windows, your dell is well... still a computer... but you saw on digg that computer must be modded to death so you are a good sheep and mod without common sense or good taste whatsoever)...
- DWatch, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1This is for REMOTE servers..... not systems in your house/apartment. Read the list again with that in mind. This has nothing to do with building a server at your house and setting up a router or an NAS storage device.
- ojpetho, on 10/10/2007, -18/+2good
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