Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

[Henry Gessau]

Thanks Peter. I had thought about using cloud instances, but I one of the
things I want to run is a local media server.

Containers is one of the things I want to play around with and get familiar
with. I'll definitely check out juju, thanks.

Peter Petrakis <peter.petrakis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Henry,
> 
> I remember the HP uS were used to  create personal openstack clusters so I
> know that works. Unless
> you have some esoteric RAID card you're interested in anything you buy should
> "just work"
> out of the box. It's really desktops that benefit the most from certification
> because the BIOS gets hardened
> (well ACPI) so all those runtime features, especially suspend/resume, just work.
> 
> If you're really just experimenting I suggest you pick up an EC2 account with
> say an m3.medium
> is just 0.070/hour. New accounts get 700 hrs of t1 micro for free.
> 
> You should also check out juju. You can deploy services locally using LXC
> containers (instead of the cloud) and link them up,
> no VX instructions extension required. A fast disk helps.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Peter /me worked for canonical for about 5 years
> 
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Henry Gessau <henry.gessau at acm.org
> <mailto:henry.gessau at acm.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I want to set up a server at home for a bunch of projects and experiments.
> 
>     I need to use Ubuntu 14.04 server for the OS, and an Intel (not AMD) CPU.
> 
>     Canonical's certified list[1] is not very helpful. I assume 14.04 will install
>     just fine on many systems, but I would prefer to have confirmation from
>     someone/somewhere before buying something.
> 
>     Requirements:
>     - Reasonably quiet. It's going to reside near me in my home office.
>     - Intel VT-x support.
>     - Four cores. More would be nice.
>     - Must support at least 32GB RAM.
>     - Preferably under $800 for chassis + PS + CPU.
> 
>     I assume it would need to be some Core i3/i5 variant. I don't need raw speed,
>     so i7 is probably overkill, and I would prefer to keep the power low. I admit
>     I don't understand the Xeon family at all.
> 
>     I was thinking something along the lines of an HP ProLiant MicroServer, or a
>     Lenovo ThinkServer TS140? But I would be happy to assemble from parts.
> 
>     Looking forward to any advice and thoughts on home server hardware.
> 
> 
>     [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/server
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