What can you use a low end/cheap server for?

BlackStorm · Post #1 (**permalink**) 01-25-2004, 11:02 AM

What are the options of what you can do with a low end or cheap dedicated server?

I see them all the time but the only thing I would use it for is either a backup server or else maybe for a few sites or one medium sized site.

Suppose it could also be used for a test server or something for someone to learn about server management etc.

HS Nick · Post #2 (**permalink**) 01-25-2004, 12:35 PM

like the 500MHZ and below servers? Yea backup, Test server, couple sites, 1 small game server. (Low end games like CS)

vpscolo · Post #3 (**permalink**) 01-25-2004, 07:01 PM

Main DNS servers as well as DNS is suprisingly low powered and simple

Rus

GordyMac · Post #4 (**permalink**) 01-25-2004, 09:48 PM

A couple smaller IRCds.. few shells..

imported_maxhest · Post #5 (**permalink**) 01-26-2004, 10:22 AM

backup

, support area

BlackStorm · Post #6 (**permalink**) 01-26-2004, 10:29 AM

Ah i didnt think of support.
It could be used for off site support, even shared between a few smaller companies because support wouldnt use too many resources/space/bandwidth

Good idea Max

Anjay · Post #7 (**permalink**) 01-27-2004, 07:42 AM

Yes, actually support is good - however you must realise that a lot of cheap dedicated server providers also seem to have a lot of downtime.

I used to know a company that offered dedicated server for something like $20 or about there a month, and it only came with 120gb bandwidth per year (The bandwidth was actually very good and from only tier-1 providers and the uptime was superb) and it was only used for testing purposes - to let people new in the hosting business learn how to secure a box and so on. They did pretty well if I remember correctly.

You can use a cheap dedicated server for a lot really. It simply depends about your business ethics and the uptime of the server. If it was a real cheap server and had lots of bandwidth, but was always down... I wouldn't even use it for support - since that alone will give you a bad image for your support never being available.

So again it really depends... but the only thing I'd use a cheap server for is to test out how good my server admins are when I hire a new one, can be pretty useful especially if normally your servers costs are about $600~ per month for a server with very little bandwidth, about 300gb~.