How Do I Put Unused Servers To Work? 302
olyar writes "I worked for an internet start-up last year and during the 'we have plenty of money' phase, a lot of server hardware was purchased. Eight months later, there is very little money, but we're still plugging along — using only a fraction of the hardware. We just cleared out a co-lo and I now have a stack of 17, 1U servers in my garage. Each of those has 2 servers, each of which is a 2-processor, dual-core box with 8 GB of RAM. Add that up and I have 136 processors and 272 GB of RAM with nothing to do. The IT guy in me thinks that's a waste of FLOPS. The wanna-be businessman in me thinks its probably a waste of money as well. So I've been brainstorming ways to put all of that power to good use. Any ideas?"
Torrents (Score:3, Funny)
Lots and lots of torrents from the empornium.
Re:Donate to At Home Projects (Score:5, Funny)
Have you thought about just selling the servers?
Just leave the garage door open for a few hours one night, and the problem will probably take care of itself. :)
Well you could always benefit the hacker community (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Donate to At Home Projects (Score:2, Funny)
Great idea! What's your address?
putting servers to work. (Score:5, Funny)
Fire the busboys and have the unused servers bus tables. The bottom line is that you ultimately have to increase patron traffic if you want your business to thrive. Have you considered businessman's lunch specials? Really hot hostesses? Maybe your cook sucks? Change your menu.
17? That's an odd number... (Score:2, Funny)
Host porn (Score:4, Funny)
Porn ALWAYS pays.
the obvious answer (Score:2, Funny)
give them to me
Re:Donate to At Home Projects (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Liquidate... (Score:3, Funny)
That's just raccoons. Nasty things, always getting into garbage cans...
Relocate (Score:1, Funny)
Move them from the garage to your living room and use them to heat your home?
Re:Donate to At Home Projects (Score:5, Funny)
127.0.0.1
Oh my god, that moron is running SSH that gives me root access with the same basic password I use! Learn to use a Firewall or use a better password, n00b!
Here comes a big fat rm -rf / {#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER")
Re:Newsgroup disk service (Score:2, Funny)
Step 2: Create web page that offers service
Step 3: Create scripts that send out discs
Step 4: Profit!!!!
Re:Donate to At Home Projects (Score:2, Funny)
Re:JIT. (Score:2, Funny)
Where are your costumers coming from and when are they leaving
How did you know he works as a clown?
Re:Donate to At Home Projects (Score:5, Funny)
Not even jokes are IPv6 compliant.