On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:43:08AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: > > Buy second hand branded hardware from ebay (allegro in poland). It's > usually hardware that was used in offices and replaced by more "modern" > ones. It's already tested!!! > > You could get high-end PIII with 512MB RAM for $30 at most, the only thing > you may need to add is larger drives, but 20GB isn't uncommon. P4 with 1GB > RAM and 40GB drive is for 60-70$ here. > > All this branded second-hand hardware have nice and small desktop cases, > are usually quite silent and just works out of the box. > > For good software like FreeBSD, PIII/1000 is already lightning-fast. > > And from what i read on that list, 90% of your servers run quite simple > task that even Pentium 100 will do.
I'm hosting websites on 5-10 years old SUN hardware. V100/120 with ultrasparc II 400-650 Mhz. Just put in some new disks and memory, no sweat. They allmost never break down. And I like the openboot and LOM facilities. A simple serial connection is all you need. What do you use for remote management of those desktop cases? Ruben _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"