On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:28 AM, <shweg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, I'm considering buying a Soekris net5501-70 and install OpenBSD on it > to make myself a small server and use it as a proxy (ssh tunnel), it might > serve as backup file sever as well. I guess at the most there will be > two-three computers connnected at the same time, and there might be some > streaming video going through, like the videos you find on online > newspapers. I have googled around, and read that this kind of hardware is > fine as a router but not so much as a server. Is it true? > Thank you for any suggestions. > I was also considering using a netbook for the task. What about it?
the only reason i don't/wouldn't use my soekris as a server (actually, i do use it as a dns and dhcp server) is limited storage. a single 2.5in disk is not my ideal backup server configuration.
