2 Mar
2023
2 Mar
'23
11:47 a.m.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 11:33, Andy Smith via BitFolk Users <
users(a)mailman.bitfolk.com> wrote:
It's been many years since HP did good deals on
these and also the
last revision or two were a lot worse spec than in the heyday of
Microservers. There's nothing comparable now from HP/Lenovo nor any
indication that there will be, sadly.
Indeed. I stopped buying them new long ago, when they started putting
firmware updates behind a paywall.
I did pick up an HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 with a "Intel(R) Celeron(R)
CPU G1610T @ 2.30GHz" CPU and 16GB RAM from eBay a while back as a general
purpose home server. It's perhaps unsurprisingly way better / faster than
the old N40/N54 Microservers of yore.
That said (and getting back nearer the topic) I did run a mastodon instance
on one of the old N54L's for a bit last year. It was just about man for the
job, but only for a single user, I don't think it would have coped with a
bunch of users, and certainly wouldn't have been able to run elastic search.
I moved the instance (https://ubuntu.social) to a chunky VPS where it runs
fine. I'll probably retire the old Microservers, as I have no real use for
them at the moment.
Cheers,
Al.