How to configure a linux server under $200?
 

I decided to join the Linux Family.
So I need one machine running it.

I am planning to configure a Linux server about $200,
running as a Web Server with DB and Telnet service
with programming capability in C & JAVA.

I preferred to use this machine remotely in home network.
So I wonder if I can running this machine without a monitor.
If you got ideas about it, please help me.

I appreciated it!

Welcome to LQ.

My only reccomendation would be to run ssh instead of telnet. Other than that I can't see any problems. Then again you haven't given any system specs/distros to go on.

Re: How to configure a linux server under $200?
 

definitely you can run without a monitor. just get a PC to your specs, and ssh in (or telnet -- ssh is better, tho :p). i do that for my web server, it's very convenient. :cool: for $200 you can probably get something really good for your needs. gl :)

Thank you guys.
Maybe I was not clear enough.
Actually I wanna know your suggestion about PC specs.
Could you tell me yours, synaptical?

I am setting up my old P150 laptop right now to be a light-duty web server. It has 80MB of RAM, 22MB of which is free if I am not running X (no real need to run X on a server-only system). I will be using webmin for most of my remote configuration needs. Good thing about a laptop is low power consumption, and built-in UPS if you have a battery ;)
Takes up much less space too.

Edit:
This might not be a very good setup for you though if you will be compiling.

I agree on the laptop idea, as long as the battery is decent. The problem with laptops is (apart from the dead batteries) that they may contain hardware that is not easily supported, like winmodems etc. Tehy also tend to be more expensive, even if the are technically obsolete. Just try to get the most memory and processor that you can get for the money. diskspace is not that important unless you plan to need lots of diskspace, ie fileserving for your p2p applications.

sure, my web server is a PII 300 with 160MB ram that i got on ebay for $50. :D (complete specs here.)

suggestions really depend on what you specifically want to do. for example, a web or file server really does not need a lot of CPU power -- what's more important there is the disk. i would *strongly* recommend SCSI if you can get it.

otoh, if you are running database services, CPU could become important. so i would balance that out as to what i expected to be doing more, probably starting with a SCSI disk, and then getting as powerful a CPU as would fit in the budget. if i thought database/programming would be used a lot more than the serving, i would get IDE and increase the CPU size. etc. ram is always good, so max that out as much as possible.

i agree with the laptop comments concerning price. for $200 you are going to get a lot better (more powerful) hardware going with a desktop/tower/etc.

hth :)

I spent 50 euro on my father's pc from his work. It is a PII 400mhz and 64mb ram. I use it as a file server. built a larger hd in it and now it workes great. So I spent 140 euro in my system. It has a 120 gb HD.