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I am looking for buy a server from dell, and its not for wany warez purpose. just want to start my hosting company and gaming servers

I am looking to purchase the following

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r200?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

CPU: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X3320, 2.50GHz, 2x3M C [add $360]
RAM: 4GB DDR2, 800MHz, 4x1GB Dual Ranked DIMMs [add $69]
OS: LINUX/WINDOWS SERVER

I am also looking to pop in 2 hard drives (2x1TB):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274

I have some basic questions:

I saw that the server has an onboard graphic card, does that mean i can hook up a monitor to it?
When i buy it, can i hook it up in my house, and connect it with an ethernet cable? (or its more complicated than that?)

Well i will appreciate any asnwers!


This is posted for a friend, please respond though as I am curious about the answer aswell...
 
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The only thing I will add is, what connection do you have, because you will need cable.

Copper will not suffice :)
 
yes you will be able to hook a monitor up to it. I dunno if rack servers are setup differently to tower servers, but with tower, you can use your ethernet cable, should be the same for rack as well.
 
Whatever ISP you're on, I suggest calling them and seeing what bandwidth and usage restrictions you have. Also, I suggest you only run your own server if you get at least 1mb upload otherwise it would be a waste.
 
Yes that's a great connection for a server, I was using a 2Megabit connection for my last one....before I fried it :(

But yeah 13 MegaBytes is good enough, although it still depends on what sites he's gonna have......not any image or file hosting.
 
He would use up his bandwith in an instant. Plus the downlaod speeds for file hosting would be dead slow, if there are many ppl downloading at the same time.
The image hosting pics will take very long to load, or may not even load.
 
Well he said he has 13 MB/s not mb, thats a lot.. and considering he has no LIMIT. i think he could pull it off. i am pretty sure his on T3 connection, or else theres no way you can get 13 MB/s
 
Yeah I hear where you're coming from, but for file hosting you need dedicated 100Mbit lines or OC-48 line connections, at least for it to be successful and have great speeds.

But yeah he may be able to pull it off.
 
Hm i am wondering if he hooks it up to his house, how would power consumption be. i doubt it would be very different than just hooking up a regular quad core desktop. correct me if i am wrong =o
 
If you want to do a serious business, place it in some data center. You'll get a better network connection, air conditioning and UPS which will hold your server online in case of a power cut.

And get a DRAC fore remote management. It's very handy sometimes.

Btw, nice server, I'm just getting a HP one:
CPU: 2 x Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5405 2.00 GHZ
RAM: 8 GB of DDR2 ECC Fully Buffered
HDD: 2x Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 73.4GB, SAS
 
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