On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Richard Crawford wrote: > My wife and I have been planning on getting a server of our own for quite > awhile now. And while browsing through Fry's recently, I stumbled across > a book on building your own PC. > > Here's what we want to build: a nice little server running off a DSL line; > it'd host a couple of printers, our documents, all of our MP3's, mail, and > a relatively low-traffic website. I imagine this will be relatively low > maintenance so I don't want to worry about co-locating. I've been > pondering RAID as well. And, naturally, it will be running Linux (I'm > familiar with Red Hat, but I'm certainly open to suggestions for other > systems). My rationale is that anything I build for myself using parts > that I've carefully researched to make sure they're all willing to play > with each other and with Linux is probably going to be more stable than > anything I buy from Dell or Gateway or Wal-Mart. > > I don't know. Does this sound like a stupid idea or what?
Building your own is likely to be more expensive than buying one. If you like doing the research though, you are likely to get a better machine that fits your needs better. Re: serving on DSL... make sure you aren't serving large or popular files... sending large files upstream can significantly reduce your downstream bandwidth. ObSecurity: And minimize your exposed services, and apt-get update regularly, of course. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech