
Re: Lovely Jubbly
"There will be a lot of fairly high spec PC's hitting the USED market at cheapo prices"
I guess I should comb places like E-Bay again for a spare server - it only needs half the processing power as it's merely a firewall amd NAS running mail, subversion, etc. with FBSD. Any 64-bit machine with decent RAM and I merely swap in the hard drive, good to go! the current one has 5G RAM and a 1.8Ghz Intel Core Duo. Works fine with GBit LAN (dual homed). It just needs to be reliable enough, that's all. Runs FBSD with ZFS. Hard drive has been replaced a couple of times, though.
Is also possible to get some CCP piece of crap mini-PC for under $200, multi-homed even. Not sure I'd trust one o' those, however...