[GRLUG] Net-top as server?

[Michael Mol]

Steve Romanow wrote:
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>   
> Could you use such a machine for local services like dnsmasq, upnp 
> server, etc?  I thought it would be best to have most of these services 
> "inhouse" especially if the disk storage holding the media is local.

It'd require some voodoo magic using a VPN (UPNP/DLNA isn't generally 
routable), but it's technically doable.  And entirely silly, as you 
wouldn't want the latency involved slowing down DNS or UPNP servers.