[Solved] Hosting on linux USB

[Mr_Moose]

After running an MTA server on windows7 24-7 for a long time on an old HP Compaq nx7000 notebook, the hard drive broke down and all that's left working is the remaining components and 2 USB sticks in 8GB respectively 2GB connected to USB2.0, I've been running Linux from USB before but this time it should be optimized for best performance for an MTA server, so basically which Linux distribution would you recommend for this purpose. (Old notebook computer and USB storage).

Some specifications:

CPU: (32-bit) 1.4GHz

RAM: 1.25GB

Network: 100Mb/s up and down

Storage: USB stick 8GB respective 2GB connected to USB 2.0

Edited April 23, 2014 by Guest

[xXMADEXx]

That... That's just not a hosting computer.. You only have 1.25 GB ram and you're running an OS off a USB stick? lol...

[Mr_Moose]

Set this to resolved, I managed to fix it, see it live here: http://mta.albonius.com/s1/. The solution was "simple", Linux puppy was the solution, the 8GB USB stick for the actual OS and server and the 2GB one to transfer files, works out of the box without hard drives and if the remaining parts of the server fails I just move the USB stick to another computer. Linux puppy only takes 128MB RAM and loads the entire OS into the memory, that means it's really fast as a server and 1GB is not that bad for an MTA server as long you got the right scripting skills.

Remember that this used to be on Windows 7, which is way more heavy to run. I guess I'll post a tutorial about this later since it's a pretty good idea after all, if you don't trust me just visit the server, I will keep it up 24-7 now.

[Martin54]

Looks awesome, hard to believe that you can get all that performance from an old laptop which doesn't even have hard drives. Keep up the good work.

[Mr_Moose]

Turned out that it didn't saved properly but the USB sticks was a good idea at lest, the server is now back on windows 7 which is probably even more amazing with that performance but still no lag at all even thought it runs advanced RP scripts.