Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Thanks guys, unless I can find something better at my local computer store I'll get the HP. I'd love to be able to get more than 8G RAM in it though... Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 09:26, Paul Gear wrote: > On 22/06/12 08:54, Dave Hall wrote: >> Try staticice.com.au >> >> On 22/06/12 06:03,

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gear
On 22/06/12 08:54, Dave Hall wrote: > Try staticice.com.au > > On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: >> Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a >> good place to get one? :) >> >> Thanks, >> ~Stephen >> >> On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross wrote: >>> HP Pr

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Dave Hall
Try staticice.com.au On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a good place to get one? :) Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross wrote: HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a good place to get one? :) Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcross wrote: > HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you can fill with four 2-3GB drives. > Max out the memory and runs Ubuntu 12.04 with capacity

Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Stephen Rees-Carter
Hi all, My work has just given me $1,000 to spend on a new home server machine which I intend to run as a virtual machine host, either as 12.04 Virtualbox headless or ESXi. But the only hardware I've bought in the last 4 years has been two Lenovo laptops and a cheap Toshiba for my wife, so I'm a b