Re: [PLUG] Recommend: cheap server suitable for virtualization?

[Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Claude M. Schrader
<plug@claudeschrader.com> wrote:
> atom machines are great for some things, but the CPU is pretty weak.
> Trying to juggle calls from multiple OS installations might be too much
> for it.

I'd say "not a chance", rather than "might", if you're interested in
even bare minimum acceptable performance. :-)

> Claude
>
> On 18:40 Wed 20 Jun     , Julien Vehent wrote:
>>    I love atom based motherboards. Cheap ($100 for a full featured
>>    motherboard+cpu+video+...). Add a case, 2 x 2"5 drives (for raid 1) and
>>    some ram, and you get a perfect home server for ~$250.
>>
>>    On 2012-06-20 18:29, r m wrote:
>>
>>      I have a VPS "in the cloud". I'd like to back it up to something at
>>      home, and it'd be even cooler if I could boot/play/mirror with it.
>>      (It's a PAE kernel under Xen as far as I know).
>>      What's a good/cheap hardware platform I can set this up on? (and then
>>      setup another VM to dev on?)
>>
>>      thanks
>
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