Intel Atom servers

[pctech]

I gather from readng posts on here that a couple of posters have/use some dedicated servers.

Now I can rent an Intel Atom based server quite cheaply and was thinking of doing so to use it as a test bench for what I'm planning initially and will then use it for basic web serving.

Anyone used one for this kind of thing, is the performance ok?

[Steve]

I have an Asrock ION Nettop (Fedora13)running mainly as a music server, but it is also running Apache,MySql,P2P and Samba file sharing. It performs well as long as you don't ask it do any number crunching.

[pctech]

Cheers.

It will eventually be used to host the site for the venture I am planning along with running something like Nagios to test the other services.

[Steve]

They certainly don't seem to have any issues running the current Linux distros, I think Nagios ( sounds like somewhere to eat)is also Linux based?

[pctech]

I think it is (we use it at work for server and networking kit monitoring)

http://www.nagios.org/

[Steve]

Quickstart instructions are for fedora/opensuse and ubuntu.

[pctech]

Then it must be then (have never been near the Nagios server as its looked after by the networks team)

[esh]

Debian server on a dual core here and it's fine. You should probably note that heavy encryption loads will peg it at 100% though.

[pctech]

Cheers.

I'm probably going to do any scure transactions on something like Click and Build as I really don't want to have to deal with the rigours of PCI card secuity or encryption.

[esh]

We have a dual Atom as a fileserver and when on a gigabit link with AES encryption, it *cannot* saturate the gigabit line (30-40MB/s) because the CPU is pegged. Over NFS or other lesser encryptions you get a nice 80-85MB/s on gigabit.