Better hardware would be an HP Microserver (which should win the contest for "wo...

da_n · on Nov 28, 2012

That is a truly frightening URL, makes me wonder what kind of CMS they are running that generates 100 character long URI (Vignette?).

pooriaazimi · on Nov 28, 2012

This is the scary part IMO: http://h10010.www1.hp.com - If you go to http://www.hp.com/xxxxxx (the rest) or even http://h10010.www.hp.com/xxxxx, it's a 404. Even worse:

    curl http://www1.hp.com
    curl: (6) Could not resolve host: www1.hp.com; nodename nor servname provided, or not known

thejosh · on Nov 28, 2012

The HP Blog URLs are scary as well..

sliverstorm · on Nov 28, 2012

I looked at getting one of those. However, it seems like HP is sunsetting the Microserver line, which is a real shame.

kryptiskt · on Nov 28, 2012

Which is a good reason to get one now. I have one (running FreeBSD and ZFS), and it has been great. I does what I ask of a homeserver: it runs silently and is pretty good at saturating a 1Gb connection, the RAM really helps the performance. All at a great price.

sliverstorm · on Nov 28, 2012

I would have, but at the time I was looking to purchase (very recently) the hardware was already getting a little long in the tooth.

That combined with the costs of getting a static IP and a few other things I'd want for hosting @ home, and I decided to use a VPS instead.

ComputerGuru · on Nov 28, 2012

Thanks for that link, looks like a real steal.

Do you have one of these? Can you answer some questions for me, as I'm just about ready to impulse buy!

Is it passively cooled? Is the "embedded raid" an actual RAID or some junk software emulation (I'll probably use ZFS anyway, and that should be used w/out hardware RAID)?

EDIT

Not passively cooled :( Full review here: http://www.silentpcreview.com/HP_Proliant_MicroServer