A question for people familiar with servers...

[LinkFire]

I am looking for buy a server from dell, and its not for wany warez purpose. just want to start my hosting company and gaming servers

I am looking to purchase the following

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r200?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

CPU: Quad Core Intel? Xeon? X3320, 2.50GHz, 2x3M C [add $360]
RAM: 4GB DDR2, 800MHz, 4x1GB Dual Ranked DIMMs [add $69]
OS: LINUX/WINDOWS SERVER

I am also looking to pop in 2 hard drives (2x1TB):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274

I have some basic questions:

I saw that the server has an onboard graphic card, does that mean i can hook up a monitor to it?
When i buy it, can i hook it up in my house, and connect it with an ethernet cable? (or its more complicated than that?)

Well i will appreciate any asnwers!


This is posted for a friend, please respond though as I am curious about the answer aswell...

LinkFire Reviewed by LinkFire on 23rd Jan 2009. A question for people familiar with servers... I am looking for buy a server from dell, and its not for wany warez purpose. just want to start my hosting company and gaming servers I am looking to purchase the following http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r200?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd CPU: Quad Core Intel? Xeon? X3320, 2.50GHz, 2x3M C RAM: 4GB DDR2, 800MHz, 4x1GB Dual Ranked DIMMs OS: LINUX/WINDOWS SERVER Rating: 5

[Ryan]

The only thing I will add is, what connection do you have, because you will need cable.

Copper will not suffice

[snowmanrene]

yes you will be able to hook a monitor up to it. I dunno if rack servers are setup differently to tower servers, but with tower, you can use your ethernet cable, should be the same for rack as well.

[keytraderz]

Lol copper? what do you mean? i am sure he has a regular Ethernet cable =p. correct me if i am wrong.

[d3monic]

Whatever ISP you're on, I suggest calling them and seeing what bandwidth and usage restrictions you have. Also, I suggest you only run your own server if you get at least 1mb upload otherwise it would be a waste.

[Warex-Z]

You can't run a server off your home Internet connection in most cases.

[keytraderz]

I think hes just asking theoretically, not mentioning any isp restrictions or bandwidth usage.

[LinkFire]

Suppose that he has a 13 MB/s UP not mb but MB, and he wants to set it up at his house and his ISP allows it. is it possible?

[keytraderz]

lol thats uber, hm i suppose he could? correct me if i am wrong

[snowmanrene]

Yes that's a great connection for a server, I was using a 2Megabit connection for my last one....before I fried it

But yeah 13 MegaBytes is good enough, although it still depends on what sites he's gonna have......not any image or file hosting.