Agree with most of the previous posters-- I use a Core based system with passive cooling and laptop drives. It's about 19W with SpeedStep at lowest speed (never increases except when transcoding FLAC to MP3 files). I use WOL with a 30 min timeout to suspend the system and wake using SB3 (takes a few seconds to resume). Understand the Controller will soon have this functionality.
Economics will support running SqueezeCenter in a VPS at some point soon-- each FLAC stream is about 1 Mbit/s and latency is not bad with fast connections (e.g. some cable services, FIOS, etc.). The bandwidth costs could be an issue (about 450 MB/hour), but I don't spend enough time at home for it to be an issue (maybe play music 20-30 hours/month). Currently storage is probably the most significant limit-- most VPS plans have small limits (tens of GB) as they have to absorb cost of users who make larger IO demands (e.g. DB, mail spool, etc.) than a single user SqueezeCenter. Something like a cheap Xen VM (e.g. Slicehost) for $20/month would probably be good if it had the necessary storage... Not a great idea to run SC7 open to the public Internet, but many home routers support VPN... -- syburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ syburgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14239 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46780 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
