What to do with spare server?

[wheel]

I've got a spare server (actually 2), lots of rackspace, and a decent amount of bandwidth. The servers are leased so it's not worth selling them or sending them back.

Any great ideas on what I could do with a spare server or two to maybe generate a bit of cash each month, without generating a lot of work? It'll basically cost me nothing to put them into production on the web.

[encyclo]

It won't generate any cash, but you could offer up the servers as mirrors for an open source project that you support. You could mirror FreeBSD [freebsd.org] for example, or your preferred Linux distro or programs. :)

[DamonHD]

Hi,

Or provide some other easy-but-useful services like:

* Public NTP time server.

* Public random number source (eg like random.org).

* Mirror one of my public-service servers. B^>

Rgds

Damon

[trillianjedi]

spare server (actually 2), lots of rackspace, and a decent amount of bandwidth

I smell a niche vertical search engine.

TJ

[wheel]

lol. I'm already running two niche search engines on my main server :).

[vik_c]

Offer it to a non-profit which has a PR8 homepage in return for a link :)

[wheel]

>>>Offer it to a non-profit which has a PR8 homepage in return for a link :)

Now we're talking! That's a great idea, thanks!