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Well, it doesn't need to be able to perform advanced calculations for the LHC in Switzerland, but it must have enough CPU juice to be reliable as a server. Perh
by drKarl 16y ago
Well, it doesn't need to be able to perform advanced calculations for the LHC in Switzerland, but it must have enough CPU juice to be reliable as a server. Perhaps HTTP/FTP/POP3/DNS server, download server, Firewall, there are many possible uses and I think that GuruPlug and their kind provide enough CPU performance for such tasks.
I'm concerned about what I read about problems with overheating, though.
- mseebach 16y agoServer!=high performance, a server can be any device that's mostly on and connected to the network. None of the services you mention are "high performance", except perhaps the firewall if you have a lot of traffic and a lot of rules. Also, don't host your own e-mail. Your server will go down, and you will lose mail, and it will be embarrassing.
- niels_olson 16y agoThe "CPU juice" required of a server, per page sent, is fairly low compared to the "juice" a client uses to run the browser that page is rendered in. Run munin, awstats, and top to get a feel for your server load: you should get a sense of how much it takes to manage one user, and how many simultaneous users you have, etc. For development, assuming you have another machine for your GUI, a 400 MHz Apple G3 B&W with 256 MB RAM will run Debian Lenny with Apache and PHP just fine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3_%28Blue_%26_White%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3_%28Blue_%26_...), so I would think any of the plugs would be fine. If you are deploying a service and marketing it to millions, you're going to need a bit more than a plug :-)
- drKarl 16y agoYes, of course it's not intended to run a service for millions of users, it is mainly http server for developing purposes, file serving (scp, ftp), perhaps dns server and firewall.