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Set up a makeshift server room in my closet

Nowak

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Excuse the mess, I store things in here too. Anyway, I decided I wanted a server for... something, but then I decided why should I pay for something like a Raspberry Pi when I can just set up one of those computers my dad gave me as a server? So I installed Ubuntu on one and arranged it like this. Now a day later, I think I've finalized how I'll have my "server room" laid out.

 

Right now I'm running a Minecraft server on it, but I also have bind9 installed in case I decide to do other things with the server.

 

For those of you wondering, the machine is a Dell Studio Slim 540S with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300, an ATI Radeon 4350 512MB, 4GB DDR2 RAM and 640GB storage. Seems to run Ubuntu beautifully so far.

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Get rid of the GUI.

 

It'll leach tons of CPU cycles.

 

Go headless, too, while you're at it.

 

Learn how to use ssh.

 

It's far more efficient.

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Get rid of the GUI.

 

It'll leach tons of CPU cycles.

 

Go headless, too, while you're at it.

 

Learn how to use ssh.

 

It's far more efficient.

Not sure how to work with .jar files without a GUI :V

 

Also, I already use SSH to control it when I don't need to do non-graphical stuff.

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