A question for people familiar with servers...

[keytraderz]

Hm what would happen if he does image or file hosting? curious..

[snowmanrene]

He would use up his bandwith in an instant. Plus the downlaod speeds for file hosting would be dead slow, if there are many ppl downloading at the same time.
The image hosting pics will take very long to load, or may not even load.

[keytraderz]

Well he said he has 13 MB/s not mb, thats a lot.. and considering he has no LIMIT. i think he could pull it off. i am pretty sure his on T3 connection, or else theres no way you can get 13 MB/s

[snowmanrene]

Yeah I hear where you're coming from, but for file hosting you need dedicated 100Mbit lines or OC-48 line connections, at least for it to be successful and have great speeds.

But yeah he may be able to pull it off.

[keytraderz]

I agree with you, but making a file sharing web site is a waste of time unless you got the money and the connections.

[d3monic]

You'd be running a very nice webserver with that.

[keytraderz]

Hm i am wondering if he hooks it up to his house, how would power consumption be. i doubt it would be very different than just hooking up a regular quad core desktop. correct me if i am wrong =o

[Azo]

If you want to do a serious business, place it in some data center. You'll get a better network connection, air conditioning and UPS which will hold your server online in case of a power cut.

And get a DRAC fore remote management. It's very handy sometimes.

Btw, nice server, I'm just getting a HP one:
CPU: 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5405 2.00 GHZ
RAM: 8 GB of DDR2 ECC Fully Buffered
HDD: 2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 73.4GB, SAS

[keytraderz]

Jeez what are going to run it for?

[Azo]

Websites.