Re: Low power server ideas

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 8:15 AM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> I am not sure this is low enough power, but the PC engines apu2 has 3
> GbE interfaces and has pretty low power consumption.  My UPS reports 37
> VA, and that's an apu2, a USB hub, 2 ethernet switches one of which
> isn't particularly low power, and a POE access point on one of the
> switches.
>
> It's an amd64 cpu and can be had with 4G RAM.  Serial console only, no
> video at all.  Mine runs until I upgrade the software or the power is
> out longer than the UPS can deal with.   It is not particularly speedy
> CPU wise, but it's been great as a
> router/firewall/dns/everything-like-that running NetBSD.

Interesting. I guess if you wait long enough the mainstream stuff
becomes sort of embedded stuff. This would be easy to build and run
NetBSD as well...

Andy