As Worfolk Online expands, a server to test things on, especially on PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1, etc would be really handy so I started pricing up what it would take to get a basic system. This is what I came up with…
- Barebone case, £65
- 80gb Seagate hard drive, £35
- 256mb DDR memory, £15
- 2.26gb Intel Celeron processor, £45
Total price, approximately £170. It doesn’t include delivery and it’s from eBuyer (but at least none of the equipment is made by eBuyer so it’s not too bad) but still I think that’s pretty good. Huck it up to my mouse, keyboard and monitor at first, stick Fedora on it then just attach it to the network and I can remote access using VNC from my desktop whenever I need to admit it.
It would also help me in admining a Linux server as I really need to learn more about it. When I move off my VPS and onto a fully dedicated and I will need to do quite a bit probably as even if I do go for a managed server (and I probably will) I will probably be restricted to only having so much time per month where they will do admin stuff for me.
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