[GRLUG] Net-top as server?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > The Radio Shack on 28th has a couple of models for ~350 and abc 
> > warehouse had the HP model in their sale paper last month for 200 I 
> > think.  Worth a shot.
> There's a small computer shop on the corner of Ivanrest and 28th st 
> that's selling tiny refurbished DeskPros with 2.4GHz P4 processors for 
> $125 apiece.  Might be worth looking into.  I couldn't tell you what 
> their power consumption is, off-hand.  They might be willing to cut a 
> deal if you ordered several of them without an operating system; They 
> might be able to take those keys and use them on something else.

This makes more sense to be;  the computing power per $ of the netbook
families just doesn't make sense.

On the other hand, I've found, if you have a solid Internet connection
just buy a VM from somebody like Linnode and use that as your server -
$20 a month for something way more powerful than a netbook and the power
cost [to you] is zero.  You still get all the power of your own box from
console & root access on down.  And the added benefit that you don't
have to worry about the house cat piddling on the thing.