Thanks Peter. I had thought about using cloud instances, but I one of the things I want to run is a local media server.
Containers is one of the things I want to play around with and get familiar with. I'll definitely check out juju, thanks. Peter Petrakis <peter.petra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Henry, > > I remember the HP uS were used to create personal openstack clusters so I > know that works. Unless > you have some esoteric RAID card you're interested in anything you buy should > "just work" > out of the box. It's really desktops that benefit the most from certification > because the BIOS gets hardened > (well ACPI) so all those runtime features, especially suspend/resume, just > work. > > If you're really just experimenting I suggest you pick up an EC2 account with > say an m3.medium > is just 0.070/hour. New accounts get 700 hrs of t1 micro for free. > > You should also check out juju. You can deploy services locally using LXC > containers (instead of the cloud) and link them up, > no VX instructions extension required. A fast disk helps. > > Hope that helps. > > Peter /me worked for canonical for about 5 years > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Henry Gessau <henry.ges...@acm.org > <mailto:henry.ges...@acm.org>> wrote: > > I want to set up a server at home for a bunch of projects and experiments. > > I need to use Ubuntu 14.04 server for the OS, and an Intel (not AMD) CPU. > > Canonical's certified list[1] is not very helpful. I assume 14.04 will > install > just fine on many systems, but I would prefer to have confirmation from > someone/somewhere before buying something. > > Requirements: > - Reasonably quiet. It's going to reside near me in my home office. > - Intel VT-x support. > - Four cores. More would be nice. > - Must support at least 32GB RAM. > - Preferably under $800 for chassis + PS + CPU. > > I assume it would need to be some Core i3/i5 variant. I don't need raw > speed, > so i7 is probably overkill, and I would prefer to keep the power low. I > admit > I don't understand the Xeon family at all. > > I was thinking something along the lines of an HP ProLiant MicroServer, > or a > Lenovo ThinkServer TS140? But I would be happy to assemble from parts. > > Looking forward to any advice and thoughts on home server hardware. > > > [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/server > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org <mailto:gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org> > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/