Intel Atom 330 enough, for a home server?

[waloshin]

A) Is an Intel Atom 330 with 2 gbs of ram enough to host, a single email address for home use?

B) One Mac osx time machine backup

C) Also act as a print server?

83 KB/s too slow as upload for this simplistic server?


OS: Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bit vs 32 bit?

I was thinking about starting with this barebone system as I already have the ram and a harddrive.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119015&cm_re=atom_330-_-56-119-015-_-Product

 

[Daveoc64]

While I can't comment on exactly what you want to do, I run a home server from the most basic Eee PC model (it has a Celeron - not even an Atom!).

It's the Eee PC 4G (701) model as shown on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#Specifications

It runs Ubuntu Server (32 bit of course) with SAMBA, Apache and MiniDLNA (a media server) running on it.

As the computer you have linked to has much higher specs, and your needs don't sound too high, I would say it could work.

 

[Ttownbeast]

I am planning on getting another machine to run it as a headless server at some point. From what I gather from the research I am doing you don't need anything very powerful. In my case I am considering using one as a web server and hosting my own site from home--speed is not too important, memory, hard disk space and a good internet connection is you just have to make sure your ISP doesn't block port 80. I am still learning about this myself, but those are the basics that I've managed to gather data on.