Power consumption - Running a server at home

leaskovski

leaskovski

leaskovski

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Hi people,

I am toying with the idea of hosting a service on my dsl connection at home for my mobile device and thus currently I am gonna have to leave my PC up and running with the virtual machine open.

This is obviously gonna be a drain on my power usage at home. Now I was thinking that if I wanted to 'save the planet' I could in theory buy a clapped out old laptop and use that.

Would this likely save on power (plus give me a bit of a UPS option for the server as well) or is it going to be negligible?

Cheers
 
Hmm, well i wanna runa linux box with apache2 and php (with the php_imap module) on it. However at some stage I may wanna get a bit torrent client running so i ever want to download stuff i can que it up on it.

Could that embedded device handle that?
 
Hmm, very interesting!

So with the external device be it a usb stick or a usb disk drive, is this where the linux files are installed to (the OS) or is that flashed to the slugs internal memory?
 
Hmm, im tempted, but by the time I pick one of these up and then get a small external usb disk for it, it may well be getting to the cheapo laptop price, which will then make it easier for me to configure as i can then run ubuntu desktop on it.
 
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