I gather from readng posts on here that a couple of posters have/use some dedicated servers.
Now I can rent an Intel Atom based server quite cheaply and was thinking of doing so to use it as a test bench for what I'm planning initially and will then use it for basic web serving.
Anyone used one for this kind of thing, is the performance ok?
I have an Asrock ION Nettop (Fedora13)running mainly as a music server, but it is also running Apache,MySql,P2P and Samba file sharing. It performs well as long as you don't ask it do any number crunching.
Cheers.
It will eventually be used to host the site for the venture I am planning along with running something like Nagios to test the other services.
They certainly don't seem to have any issues running the current Linux distros, I think Nagios ( sounds like somewhere to eat)is also Linux based?
I think it is (we use it at work for server and networking kit monitoring)
http://www.nagios.org/ (http://www.nagios.org/)
Quickstart instructions are for fedora/opensuse and ubuntu.
Then it must be then (have never been near the Nagios server as its looked after by the networks team)
Debian server on a dual core here and it's fine. You should probably note that heavy encryption loads will peg it at 100% though.
Cheers.
I'm probably going to do any scure transactions on something like Click and Build as I really don't want to have to deal with the rigours of PCI card secuity or encryption.
We have a dual Atom as a fileserver and when on a gigabit link with AES encryption, it *cannot* saturate the gigabit line (30-40MB/s) because the CPU is pegged. Over NFS or other lesser encryptions you get a nice 80-85MB/s on gigabit.