get something as cheap as possible if you can grab something around the 2ghz mark with around 512 meg of ram. if you want to run a gui on the machine, maybe a little more ram. disk space is up to you. you can just toss an inexpensive SATA controller into the machine then drop in large disks.
my home file server (headless) is basically dual p3 800 1gig ecc ram system drives 2x8gig ibm scsi 4x200gig (PATA converters connecting to SATA controller) 2x350gig SATA 1x20 gig (which i will soon be ditching) 64bit fibre gig nic most of the guts of the machine is proper server hardware, ie the motherboard is an intel server board with onboard scsi. also ecc memory is overkill. but this stuff is almost thrown away on ebay these days. the sata controllers are just $50 4 port controllers which you can get from any place. they run perfectly as far as i can tell. but im just running from home, so at any one time there might be up to 10 files open across 3-4 machines. Dean On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 13:59:53 +1000, Stephen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need a home Linux server to act as a > 1. Proxy Server > 2. Web Server (For Web development only) > 3. Proxy Mail Server > 5. Print Server (Needing a USB 2.0 ports) > 6. File Server > 7. IP Tables firewall > > Does anybody have any ideas as what would make a good Linux server and > where such a computer could be obtained for a reasonable price? > > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
