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#1 2010-01-11 22:17:21
- x0rg
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things to play with on spare server?
I have a server running on FreeBSD that will replace my current one running Fedora. I want that box to be occupied with a bunch of funny server stuff. In other words I want some geeky stuff running in that server 
Ideas that I have:
- BitlBee
- Web Server
- Mail Server
- File Server
- Torrent Leech/Seedbox
Have you got other useful/creative stuff that can keep an old server occupied?
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#2 2010-01-11 22:22:49
- jasonwryan
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Re: things to play with on spare server?
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#3 2010-01-12 17:12:10
- x0rg
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Re: things to play with on spare server?
I thought about things as folding@home too, but the server isn't a cpu-monster, so I don't think It would actually be useful for anything...
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#4 2010-01-12 17:17:44
- bangkok_manouel
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Re: things to play with on spare server?
icecast is nice.
http://www.icecast.org/
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#5 2010-01-12 17:20:24
- Minishark
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Re: things to play with on spare server?
You could set up a Squid server: www.squid-cache.org
I set it up on my home server, just to play with. Does it make my browsing that much faster? not really, but it was a good learning experience if I ever need to set it up on a larger network where it would make a difference.
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#6 2010-01-12 17:26:14
- x0rg
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Re: things to play with on spare server?
icecast is nice.
http://www.icecast.org/
Yeah, I actually once had a icecast server running to listen the music from my desktop on my ipod touch. But the controls had miserable latency, I think just mpd with a http stream would do it just as good.
You could set up a Squid server: www.squid-cache.org
I set it up on my home server, just to play with. Does it make my browsing that much faster? not really, but it was a good learning experience if I ever need to set it up on a larger network where it would make a difference.
Isn't that ironic? I always thought a proxy would slow the connection down, because the traffic is routed through an additional instance. But a proxy that speeds the connection up?
I heard about running a BIND-DNS server on a home server. What would be the advantage here? I couldn't really find that out.
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#7 2010-01-12 17:40:09
- bangkok_manouel
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Re: things to play with on spare server?
you can also set up a git repo to back up and track all your dotfiles + set up gitweb for additional fun.
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