What Can I Do With A Server?

[lazyfortress]

I was thinking about getting a cheap $80 Sun Microsystems server from eBay.  I've always wanted a server for some reason, but I don't know what I can do with one.  I was thinking about letting it run 24/7 to do some BOINC computing or something.  Can I host my website on the server?  I bought my website with GoDaddy.  Can I transfer my site to be run by my little server?  I'm 14 by the way.  Can anyone give me some ideas?  

 

I also play FSX, and could I store my flight plan compilers on the server and access them remotely when I need them?

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

Oh, and by the way, can anyone check out nocix.net?  They say you can have a dedicated server for $25 a month.  When you go in depth on what server you want, it gives you operating system options.  Are you able to access your server remotely, or what?  What can I do with nocix.net?  Just curious.

[Cvdasfg]

4 minutes ago, lazyfortress said:

I was thinking about getting a cheap $80 Sun Microsystems server from eBay.  I've always wanted a server for some reason, but I don't know what I can do with one.  I was thinking about letting it run 24/7 to do some BOINC computing or something.  Can I host my website on the server?  I bought my website with GoDaddy.  Can I transfer my site to be run by my little server?  I'm 14 by the way.  Can anyone give me some ideas?  

 

I also play FSX, and could I store my flight plan compilers on the server and access them remotely when I need them?

 

Any help is appreciated!

 

Oh, and by the way, can anyone check out nocix.net?  They say you can have a dedicated server for $25 a month.  When you go in depth on what server you want, it gives you operating system options.  Are you able to access your server remotely, or what?  What can I do with nocix.net?  Just curious.

Not sure as far as nocix.net goes... BUT as far as buying a server you can have essentially a NAS, a webserver (although not recommended because ddos exists)  among other things. Just google server and itll come up with hundreds of options/uses. 

[sazrocks]

Install your favorite Linux distribution and you can do a million things, here are a few: 

NAS

Router

Webserver

VPN server

TS Server

FTP Server

 

[SLAYR]

20 minutes ago, lazyfortress said:

I was thinking about getting a cheap $80 Sun Microsystems server from eBay.  I've always wanted a server for some reason, but I don't know what I can do with one.  I was thinking about letting it run 24/7 to do some BOINC computing or something.  Can I host my website on the server?  I bought my website with GoDaddy.  Can I transfer my site to be run by my little server?  I'm 14 by the way.  Can anyone give me some ideas?  

 

For $80 what is in the server? If it is a Sun server it is at least 7-8 years old at best.

 

If it has opterons it isn't worth it, and if it has single/dual core xeons it isn't worth.

 

For BOINC it wouldn't be worth it, most likely at best it has lga 771 dual core cpus which are quite terrible to do almost anything on, and use a lot of power.

 

You can host a website on it if your ISP allows so, most ISPs may have restrictions on server hosting at private residences.

 

 

[lazyfortress]

"Dual AMD Opteron 285 Dual Core 2.6 GHz 64 bit CPUs (4 Cores total)
16 GB DDR 400 MHz ECC Ram
Four 2.5 inch SAS drive bays
1 Front & 2 rear USB ports 
Rear VGA video output
Two full height PCI-X slots
Four Gigabit Ethernet Ports
One 550 Watt Power Supply

This server does not have a windows license attached. There is not currently any OS installed on it.

Included are the server itself and two power cables."

[lazyfortress]

Yeah, I just want something cheap to start with.  Is that server good enough for testing purposes?

[lazyfortress]

Sun Microsystems servers vs. IBM servers?

[Andster29]

Honestly. Become friends with your school's IT department and see if there is anything that they want to get rid of and you may be able to take it for free. That is how I acquired my two Dell 2900.

[Electronics Wizardy]

57 minutes ago, lazyfortress said:

Sun Microsystems servers vs. IBM servers?

 

1 hour ago, lazyfortress said:

Yeah, I just want something cheap to start with.  Is that server good enough for testing purposes?

Stay away. If you leave it running, it will raise your power bill by over 50 a month. 

 

Id probably save anouther 30 and get this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-PowerEdge-C2100-FS12-TY-2x-2-13GHz-QC-L5630-12GB-RAM-NO-HDD-SAS-6iR-/171816856699?hash=item2801152c7b:g:E2wAAOSwOyJX6TSu

 

Its much faster, much lower power, and has modern features, like newer virt features, pcie, uses cheaper ddr3 ram.

[NelizMastr]

3 hours ago, lazyfortress said:

"Dual AMD Opteron 285 Dual Core 2.6 GHz 64 bit CPUs (4 Cores total)
16 GB DDR 400 MHz ECC Ram
Four 2.5 inch SAS drive bays
1 Front & 2 rear USB ports 
Rear VGA video output
Two full height PCI-X slots
Four Gigabit Ethernet Ports
One 550 Watt Power Supply

This server does not have a windows license attached. There is not currently any OS installed on it.

Included are the server itself and two power cables."

That thing is about 10-12 years old. Way overpriced for that. You can find much better than that. Plus, the CPUs alone consume 200W. They don't support AMD-V either, so no proper virtualization, leaving you with running a dedicated OS, which is wasteful to say the least.

 

If all you really want is a webserver, you might as well just get a Nettop with 2-4GB RAM and just host a site on that.  Compute is only effective on modern CPUs (socket 2011 and later) because they are much more efficient anyway.