Since business is going quite well, Drak at
HostNuke has stated that if we ever are in the need for having a dedicated server hosted (colocation) that he'd be more than willing to do it for free; all IP's are supplied free from the NOC so we'll have quite the few options with near infinte bandwidth. All we'd pay for is our server...
I'm semi curious on what, if anything, you'd like to see as a public service? I know one thing for certain we'd have would be an IRC Server on the machine and a few sites; however I'm not sure what else to offer...
I'd like to here, publicly, make an open forum for discussion on any ideas for this server... This won't be a near term plan, it'll be something for perhaps next summer. Any ideas. This is open topic and exempt from the "if it's dead leave it" rule.
Also, what kind of specs would you expect to see? I, myself, personally, would like a Dual Opteron server, probably a 2U; not sure of speeds. I'd want 2G ram on it and also probably run Ensim Pro for easy maintenance (looking at the 100site license; not sure yet if I'd be purchasing or if i'd be renting). Additionally I'd be looking at 1-2 drives, probably 160g on either; likely be an SATA, may even have a 500g SATA backup drive as well... Wishful thinking anyway.
Well, let the discussion begin.