Yes, I paid. 120$. Not much freebies here. I already have a little DIY home server I assemmbled with Celeron G1610, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Dual Gigabit NIcs etc. running Ubuntu 14.04LTS with a web server and pfSense in a VM.
Already installed Ubuntu 14.04 and running fine.
Because I respect DIY, I...
I got this servers yesterday. They are HP ProLiant DL380 G3. Yes, they are very old, noisy and power hungry but they are real servers so I will be trying features like iLO, Smart Array etc. They are both the same and have Intel Xeon 2.8GHz with only 512KB cache, and 1GB of RAM, 2xGigabit NICs...
I love this thread. It gives me ideas and plans for future. I feel ashamed for posting my little home server. :)
The server has Intel Celeron G1610 CPU, ASUS P8B75-M LX MB, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Dell PSU, Samsung 500GB HDD
PLANET 8-Port Switch and Linksys router (used as a Wireless access point)...