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Your server set-up (with pics)
- Thread starter Oroka Sempai
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It wasn't all that many years ago (late 2005?) that I had a file server based on an AMD K6-2 500MHz. It performed just fine.
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before virtual machines were available to home users for free, i used to buy cheap socket 7 systems off of ebay to use as testing machines. i used to use them as webservers, file servers, domain controllers and even an exchange server. they weren't the fastest but they worked for what i used them for. basically the limiting factor for a socket 7 system as a file server would be the maximum sized hard drive you could use with it. some older socket 7 systems couldn't handle very large hard drives due to bios limits.
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Duron != K6-2. Durons are K7, same as the Athlon. Still, though, a K6-2 should have enough processing power for a basic fileserver, provided you use a decent board (i.e., not one with a SiS or VXPro chipset, or anything like that), but even then you'd probably want to use a PCI IDE or SATA card to avoid performance and size limitations that exist with most of the onboard IDE controllers.
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Heres my... home... servers 
(serving the picture below)
9 GHz of power there, and thats not all of them. Because of the height of my ceiling, I can not stack my file server or my rack mount servers with those lol.
In that stack, only three of those are active and I'll probably sell one of the middle two along with two of the dells I have. Pics coming of my rack mounted servers, UPSs, networking gear, new file server build.
(serving the picture below)
9 GHz of power there, and thats not all of them. Because of the height of my ceiling, I can not stack my file server or my rack mount servers with those lol.
In that stack, only three of those are active and I'll probably sell one of the middle two along with two of the dells I have. Pics coming of my rack mounted servers, UPSs, networking gear, new file server build.
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hey ben! Your servers are kinda pokey. Just took like page load + 15 seconds to download that image fully. Moving some files are we?
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Its not a cpu power, you just don't have the bandwidth on your cable internet that you think you do for hosting
Not to mention your isp probably sets low priority to your packets to keep you from having a good amount of bw at hand
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Yeah Tyler, you have DSL so
CPU Power is a factor to some extent. Usage was low on the dual Xeon box but its pretty high with the game servers and web/SQL all running on the same single CPU box. I was also doing some downloading/seeding, but my servers are usually pretty fast. Internet is rated at 8 down, 768k up but speed tests have said as much as 20 down and 2 up. BTW, post the specs of your Proliants.
CPU Power is a factor to some extent. Usage was low on the dual Xeon box but its pretty high with the game servers and web/SQL all running on the same single CPU box. I was also doing some downloading/seeding, but my servers are usually pretty fast. Internet is rated at 8 down, 768k up but speed tests have said as much as 20 down and 2 up. BTW, post the specs of your Proliants.
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Yeah Tyler, you have DSL so
CPU Power is a factor to some extent. Usage was low on the dual Xeon box but its pretty high with the game servers and web/SQL all running on the same single CPU box. I was also doing some downloading/seeding, but my servers are usually pretty fast. Internet is rated at 8 down, 768k up but speed tests have said as much as 20 down and 2 up. BTW, post the specs of your Proliants.
I run a webhosting company, I have no need to use my home net
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Heres my... home... servers
9 GHz of power there, and thats not all of them. Because of the height of my ceiling, I can not stack my file server or my rack mount servers with those lol.
In that stack, only three of those are active and I'll probably sell one of the middle two along with two of the dells I have. Pics coming of my rack mounted servers, UPSs, networking gear, new file server build.
Ghetto ben and his power sucking hardware... i think the country should tax him for all the power he uses
and HOLLY CRAP that pentium pro box is bloddy ****ing huge!
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Ghetto ben and his power sucking hardware... i think the country should tax him for all the power he uses
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FINALLY someone agrees with me on this! a single q6600 @ stock clock would have more processing power than all those combined and use FAR less power LOL
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