Who has gone as far as setting up a rack mount server in their dorms?

College Life
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<p>Now, I would think this would not be uncommon, especially in tech schools, to see some people set up rack mount servers in their dorms. I know, I am only a Junior in highschool, I should be worried about AP tests. Anyways. Who has done that? I was thinking, if money is not a problem, to have a laptop and an AMD Phenom 6x desktop and a server in college. Obviously the server is for backing up and be a FTP server to be the "middle man" between the laptop and desktop.</p>

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<p>Stupid idea.</p>

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<p>Yea, you can buy a new car with that kind of money</p>

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<p>may I ask why?</p>

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<p>Real geeks have better places to put their rackmount servers instead of the dorms.</p>

<p>Why cram a server in your dorm room, where there’s no backup power, bandwidth limits on your internet connection, a possible spot for coffee spills, and a roommate who might tamper with your server? Also, who’s going to take care of it while you’re sleeping?</p>

<p>You’ll usually find a few friends who have places to put it. Not to mention, instead of owning one, you can just rent one for a trivial price.</p>

<p>In any case, I have one topic for you to think about: what’s the difference between server hardware in a desktop case and that in a rackmount case? The only real advantage of rackmount is density; that is, you can fit up to 42 servers into a single closet. and move them around. If you only have one, why bother with such a large, ugly case?</p>

<p>Personally speaking: I rent three VPSes, have two laptops and a desktop. The desktop then runs several virtual machines that act as test servers for me. I am currently in the process of building a dedicated game/file server shared within my fraternity.</p>

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<p>One of my CS professors said he had his own server set up in his dorm when he was an undergrad (he recently got his phd, so about 10 years ago). He mentioned that the noise/size ****ed his girlfriend off a lot…or something like that.</p>

<p>But seriously, with things like ec2 I don’t see the point.</p>

<p>Edit: Although with the ec2 crash maybe I do… no wait, I still don’t.</p>

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<p>Servers are loud. They are designed to be in data centers @ 70 degrees F, not hot college dorms.</p>