My old pc as a VPS server

[Adil]

Basically, I have a 2 year old pc lying around downstairs, and I thought about renting it out as a VPS.
Here are the basic specs:

AMD Athlon X2 3.2Ghz Processor
Kingston 8GB RAM DDR3
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HDD (Internal)
Asus ATI Radeon 5570 1GB PCI-E Graphics Card
Asus PCE N-13 Wireless card

I'll post bandwidth allowance and stuff when I find that out
Question:
How much do you think someone would pay for this per month?

 

[Zeno]

Well, if you know the uptime?, tbh if its 99.99, I'd pay around £50.00 a Month.

 

[Muscab]

You'll have to consider your electricity bills there gonna be immense, + your 13? how will you pay it off?

 

[Donkjam]

He won't..he'll leave that to parents

 

[RyanMK]

And also, you would have to have a good network connection for people to want to rent it.

 

[RastaLulz]

As Muscab mentioned, there will be a high electricty bill. But further more, you better make sure that your Internet provider doesnt have any bandwidth limitations.

 

[Adil]

I don't think it'll be a feasible idea until I can get something sorted. And my ISP is sky, so I have no chance in hell, as they charge us ridiculous amounts of money for broadband

 

[Zeno]

I don't think it'll be a feasible idea until I can get something sorted. And my ISP is sky, so I have no chance in hell, as they charge us ridiculous amounts of money for broadband

Virgin Media FTW!

But i'm not a virgin ;P

 

[Adil]

To be honest, I could just use it as a gaming machine

 

[Jo$h]

To be honest, you should probably buy a real server instead of using a computer. However, the electricity bill wouldn't be that bad, because I have three computers over here that sit ON all day. 24/7/365 And the bill isn't that bad.

 

[-Jordan-]

To be honest, you should probably buy a real server instead of using a computer. However, the electricity bill wouldn't be that bad, because I have three computers over here that sit ON all day. 24/7/365 And the bill isn't that bad.

I have four that are on almost all day, In the night I Hibernate them, Electric bill will be nothing.

 

[johnny893]

Three desktops, and quite a few laptops that are ALWAYS on. Haven't really seen an increase in electricity at all.

 

[Hejula]

I use my old PC as a home server, it is a good way to backup all your files over the network, you can also setup all the computers on your network to backup on the server. I guess you could rent it out, but you should ring your ISP first as they might get pissy if you are using there residential connection for somewhat 'business' actions...