[geeks] Cluster in a box? Interesting item on offer at eBay

[Jonathan Groll]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:06:17 -0500, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Desk side is a euphemism for down the hall, in a server rack. I am not foolish
> enough to mean desk side literally. ;^)
> 
> The actual power consumption is rated at about 285 watts/blade, and the
> ability to spin the blades up or down as needed/desired I think it should be
> OK.
> 
> It is my hope to consolidate down several white box 'servers' into this one
> chassis for non-production home lab use...

Reading this, I became curious about what all of these white box
'servers' do. I mean, after basic network things like dns, 'gateway',
file servers, vpn servers, web servers, what else do these machines
'do'?

Cheers,
Jonathan
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