What would you do with...

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:33

...a 80GB dedicated server?

I am now the proud owner of a 100Mbit, 80GB dedicated server in Germany with a 1000GB bandwidth limit...

I just dont know what to do with it.

Im thinking of setting up a file server of some sort or maybe a business type project? Please reply with you ingenious (or not so ingenius) ideas

Thanks,

Matt

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:35

don't know, but probably not post in gd about it.

yea but its not really hardware/software related, its more idea based...

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:37

Mohinder said:
You rented a server with no actual reason?

- AMD Athlon XP 2500+, 1.83GHz
- 512MB RAM
- 40 GB HDD
- 1000GB data transfer
- Zero setup fee!
- Month-to-month contract. No risks.
- 100 Mbit/s switchport, fully burstable
- 1 IP address included. Additional IP address free of charge (must comply to RIPE regulations)
- Monthly payment via PayPal or credit card (VISA, Mastercard)
- Operating system as desired (Debian, SuSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, RedHat, FreeBSD or Windows)
- Server reboots now free of charge!
- Server resets now free of charge!

= 37.84 EUR / monthly, 0 EUR Setup

not bad really... couldnt resist

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:41

Mohinder said:
I'm selling aeroplane wheels for fifty quid each, that's cheap. Want some?

ok, how much is postage?

lol

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:44

tbh i would like to try and do something business-like with it.. maybe a site that has links to the best places for certain things (i.e. OcUK for a decent forum

) and just stick a couple of ads on there?

just looking for ideas really

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:47

sorry, do you mean host it for £3?
the reason i got 80Gb/1000GBtraffic was so i could, possibly, have different things on there with different domains pointing to them.

i was looking for support on here

lol

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 01:51

yh, i can connect to this server via RDC. its basically my computer but i have to access it through the web.

im probably gonna put a mail server on there too, maybe a proxy aswell

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 02:48

<De@thW!sh> said:
am i missing something, how can it see an 80gb dedicated server with a 40 gb hard drive?

sorry, should have said, i got an upgrade

i'm not gna pay for it for another week yet (isnt running atm because i wanted a custom setup hehe)

will keep you posted on what i do with it!

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 08:53

i'll be extremely happy to make an OcUK gaming server

just post what software to use and i will do it

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:11

ok, so here are the options:

Folding
OcUK Game Sever
OcUK member upload service (?)
File Server
Mail Server

i would love a Don to make a Poll if possible

thanks for all your advice guys

blighter · 31 Oct 2006 at 15:47

welshtom said:
havent you just bought hosting? which is cheap as chips.

im confused as to why you are paying that much per month. My business hosting doesnt cost that much and its 2gb space and a lot of bandwidth thats guarenteed to work properly

nooo.... its a PC so i can host whatever services i want on it. such as email/gaming etc... its like having a pc but in a different country. i have full control over it via remote desktop connection