Fanless servers
Comments(1) I like the idea of little “servers” (and I use that term lightly) that are quiet and cool. I have replaced one of the Mac Minis that I used as a server at home with a fanless little system based on an Intel Atom Z530 CPU (a Portwell WEBS2120). 2Gigs of memory, a small SSD and you have a completely quiet and reasonably powerful system. Definitely works as a little web / mail / openvpn / DNS server for your home network. Cheap, cheap to run, flexible.
I expect we’ll see a lot more of these kind of systems used by all the web hosters. These are great little dedicated servers – and since they barely get warm they should keep operating costs low.
It seems that many of the low cost hosting companies have started to offer Atom based dedicated servers at VPS prices. So far these seem to be Atom N270/280 or even new N450 based system. But I’m sure the Atom Z5xx based ones can’t be far behind.
