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Already at newegg at $300: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178520 Seems nice for small dedi or colo servers with a limited number of drive slots, among other things.  Although, the newegg one says "desktop" which I think is Seagate terminology for "low duty cycle, do...

As Shados says, doing any secure operation from a computer you don't control, particularly typing re-usable passwords, is a BAD idea.  You have to assume that the computer is malicious or at least compromised.  Where I worked it was expected that the ops guys always carried tablets (ipad mini)...

Mini project without payment?  Do you think senior developers are running charities?  See ya later ;-).   It's pretty common around here to bring candidates on for brief consulting stints to check them out and do mini projects before deciding to make a long term offer, but they get paid for it...

They have a lot of ancient crap equipment that they test all their stuff on, maybe even Vaxes, not just Suns which are just sort of overgrown PC's.  People familiar with the details and who have given them money before have told me that it's basically crazy what they're doing.

In my experience trying to work on an active remote disk is painful even over a LAN.  Better to work locally and sync on demand, using rsync or git depending on the data.

It's a cute idea though if it catches on, crackers will deploy code to recognize the characters.  I just use passwd -l to lock out password login completely, and rely on public key login. 

Nah I'm not trying to do anything fancy like Django, just some ultra low traffic personal static pages and simple cgi's that get maybe a dozen clicks a year.  It hadn't even occurred to me that it was possible to run something like redis (a persistent server process that keeps listener sockets...

One other question -- if you use SSL, how do you deal with the issue of loading the private key into the server at server restart?  Please don't say the key is stored on disk in plaintext.

Thanks, maybe I'm a little bit unusual in that I'm pretty comfortable with Linux and don't know anything about cpanel, rather than the other way around.  I can deal with initial setup without needing something like cpanel.  Shared hosting mostly interests me from the viewpoint of not having to...

Hmm, ok, that's interesting about htaccess and nginx and I didn't realize it was an issue.  Is litespeed really that much faster than apache?  Apache was considered pretty good back in the day, given its concurrency model that Litespeed might also have to follow for compatibility reasons (not...

Is it possible to script in languages other than php?  E.g. run cgi's written in python or whatever? Litespeed is some kind of apache clone that's supposed to be faster, but has an anti-porn TOS?  Heh.  I'm not personally interested in serving porn but this is the type of thing that makes me...

Could someone explain what "shared hosting" is?  It used to mean a name-based virtual host in a web server, but apparently these have dedicated ipv4's???  That was the main differentiator from vps's, I thought.  Is there some kind of address gobbling bandwagon going on? What kinds of scripting...

You could let the computer play itself: http://ov3y.github.io/2048-AI/

Cool idea!

The speed problem with both normal sd cards and cheap usb sticks is with small random writes.  They are just not built for that, they're basically sequential devices made for file storage, and random throughput is completely terrible.  You can't really use them as SSD if you're running something...

Soekris.com has some nice boards like that, though again they are a bit outside your price range.  They are more seriously built than the raspberry pi is.

Yeah, if it's 2x then it's up there with a Hetzner server with 2x 3tb drives but those have i7 cpu's that are much faster than an Atom.  I feel likely to get something like that since I'm looking for primary storage (so it should be raid) and cpu, rather than just backup.  I notice there's also...

What payment methods are accepted?  This is a great deal, I just wish it had two drives.

I thought this was what Sugar (the OLPC desktop) was for.  I'd be less worried about the client OS than about exposing her to the pervasive creepiness and tracking on the internet though.  At minimum I'd set up an aggressively configured firewall and adblock.

The evil is that you may not have a choice about using it for business matters.  If you work for a company and the company uses github, you have to use their github repo in order to do your job.  And because you aren't allowed to use separate accounts for separate companies/clients, Github can...