[Tfug] Using a Laptop as a server

[keith smith]

That is a good point.  I would think even a laptop can be "set and forget" for a while (3 to 5 years).  I own two very low traffic websites and would park a number of domains.  And it would deal with a small amount of email.

Originally I was thinking of using a netbook because it would be a really neat project.   Running a CentOS 6.x LAMP server on a dual core 1.6Ghz / 1GIG RAM laptop.

Last year I was able to get QMail Toaster to work on a Laptop running a 1Ghz Celeron, 256MB RAM, 14GIG HD, and CentOS 5.x.  Ran well.  Of course that was only for testing.

I'm not married to the laptop idea, just seems like a less expensive way to go and to reduce the amount of heat I get in my home office.  And it might make for an interesting experience. 

 

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Keith Smith

--- On Wed, 3/13/13, Claude Rubinson <cjr at grundrisse.org> wrote:

From: Claude Rubinson <cjr at grundrisse.org>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Using a Laptop as a server
To: tfug at tfug.org
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 3:43 PM

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:30:22PM -0700, keith smith wrote:
> I've been looking at an i3 HP as a potential web server.  Of course
> it is not going to be as fast as a mini tower with faster drives,

Even if throughput isn't an issue, you should think about ongoing
maintenance and repair, including the accompanying costs and the
associated wear and tear on the notebook.  With a real machine, it's
trivial to throw in more RAM, add another hard drive, or replace the
whole motherboard if need be.  That's not the case with
notebooks--even Thinkpads, and those come with a hardware maintenance
guide.

Claude


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