My development box is a Dell Optiplex G50 I found discarded in an
illegal trash pile. Hard drive was bad, I had a spare. Heat sink was
dislodged, I had thermal paste. CDROM is not reliable, but reliable
enough to boot off of a 4MB CentOS boot.iso and network install. Video
gives snow, but after install, it's headless so who cares.
It's been problem free for a couple months now (found it a couple
months ago). Only thing I had to purchase was a mouse for install - as
I don't have a spare and didn't feel like detaching a mouse from an
existing computer.
I installed bluefish on it and use bluefish over ssh via x forwarding
on my local lan and sometimes have the bluefish window open for days.
When I'm ready to publish to live, I simple ssh in and rsync to live.
Never had a slowness problem.
It's an old crap computer, ram limit of 512MB (currently has 384 in
it), but having the devel box local makes things like X forwarded a
GUI text editor cake w/o performance issues.
I use Ubuntu for my desktop, no server crap installed on it, I prefer
CentOS for serving - so this a cheap crap local box for devel server
is the perfect solution. Since I'm the only user, the low performance
of the CPU/Intel i815 chipset really isn't an issue (I think the mobo
was swapped at some point, Dell website indicates i810 but it has i815).
Thanks for that info I do admit that old computers do make the coolest
machines especially home servers and when running something like FreeBSD
they end up being awsome!
However we were talking about SSH over continents not local LAN! With
local LAN you get round 100Mbps unless really old in which case you
would get 10Mbps half duplex. This is no way an issue when in such close
proximity. I however am round 3500 km's away at the moment from my web
server and the internet connection I am getting is really poor as it
locks up quite a bit and I end up with failed routes between my PoP
(point of presence) server or the countries main gateway.
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