nano-ITX server with VIA Eden-N CPU?
 

Hi,

I'm looking for a (15 dBA or below whisper) silent ultra-low power usage (less than 20 Watts) server. It will be used as an xhtml/css personal website server and "bittorrent seeder" of a file that won't grow more than 1.5 GB. It has to have at least 10/100 ethernet and WiFi.

For the future I was thinking of using it as a "frontend" for a bigger server so that the IP don't change (...for the domain) to seed more files.

This CPU looks like a good choice: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/eden-n/

Is it enough to host a simple website and feed torrents?


(basically all torrents will be FOSS distros :D)

give it a decent amount of ram and I think it should work fine even at the lowest 533mhz speed. why do you need such a tiny server?

Thanks. I never knew RAM was so important even for a nano-server. Maybe with 1 GB upgradable to 3 GB :D

I will design and code a user interface for Linux/*BSD. Most code will be inherited from many FOSS projects (mainly: OpenGL, Cairo, Xgl). I want to improve in some way the way user interfaces are designed and for that I don't have to code everything.

At least one file of 600 MB will have to be uploaded periodically in a server... I've a 128/64 kbps conection (soon it will be 256/128 kbps) and even with an affordable and decent host it will take simply too much time to even bother. For this case it's better to set up a nano-server and simply replace the file locally and distribute it via bittorrent.

Also for the fun of setting up one tiny server :)

ram is very important (in my opinion more so then cpu speed) but I was thinking 512Mb 1G is more then enough. btw my torrent box is an old P1 175Mhz with 256Mb of ram. 20Gb HDD runing ubuntu (no X just bittorrent and sshd.)

Yes, when I set up the server it will be similar.

(when I get a new main PC) I can reutilize:

512 MB of DDR 333 RAM
dl dvd-rw drive
80 GB 7200 ATA hd

nVidia GeForce MX 4000 (...probably disconected from the motherboard 98% of the time)

and buy:
AMD Geode NX Processor 1750
PC CHIPS M863G

512 or 1 GB of DDR 333 RAM (later)

at $81
:D

I'm thinking of FreeBSD, Slackware or (if I want a quick installation) Ubuntu.

that nano-itx board you pointed out seems to use lap-top so-dimms not desktop ram.

Thanks for pointing that.

...I have about one year to look for a micro-ITX or mini-ITX motherboard ...but they're somewhat difficult to find.

Maybe this one... but it has laptop RAM :(

Is ECC necessary for a server?