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Ideas and planning for an old-style home server

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So I finally bought a tiny IBM SurePOS 300 after ogling it for months.
It's a little Celeron system with up to 2GB of RAM. I'm planning on running either Debian or OpenSUSE on it.
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  • Services I'm going to run on it are..
    Web server with landing-page containing info and links to the respective services
    Monitorix
    SSH server
    Tmux session host
    FTP server
    ZNC IRC bouncer
    pihole DNS sinkhole

  • Some loose ideas worth looking more into are..

    External serial-attached character LCD, IE. Matrix Orbital, Crystalfontz etc. for system info.

    UPS monitoring (This will likely get implemented if I find it easily doable, as it's very much a nice-to-have.

    Seedbox

    1-wire sensor network. This is a mostly dead thing no one is doing anymore, so the software solutions are kinda trash.

    Internet radio receiver (IE. moc player playing radio streams and farting them out of the onboard sound card)

Tips, ideas and thoughts are welcome!
What would you run on it?
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Re: Ideas and planning for an old-style home server

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Nice machine :)

Perhaps also a webdav server on it?
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Re: Ideas and planning for an old-style home server

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Hmm yeah that could be something to look into!

I got a little inspired by the old network appliances and web interfaces, and I was slightly bored. So I threw this thing together as a web landing page concept for the server. I'll see if I stick with the design or not.
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I got a little carried away and took some heavy inspirartion from IBM's WebSphere management ui, but branded it as 'MiniSphere'.. you know, the tiny server they never made.
Just a concept still, but it seems very fitting for a grey IBM box.
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Having a softspot for tweaking and tinkering with layouts, colors etc. is a bit of a curse. But I've spent a few more hours on this thing. It now has a system monitor to the left, a page for reading log files, among other things. All functional and script driven. Everything is static HTML.
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