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There has been a big discussion of what we all use on the desktop. I was wondering what hardware and software everyone use for servers and what the servers are used for.

I use a lot of stuff.

Being serious though, I mainly run three machines as servers for various things.

#0: Dell OptiPlex GX150 (Intel Pentium III (800 MHz), 256 MB of RAM, 40 GB hard drive)
Operating System: OpenBSD
DNS (BIND), HTTP/HTTPS (Apache), Local Fedora mirror (Lighttpd).

#1: Dell OptiPlex GX150 (Intel Pentium III (930 MHz), 256 MB of RAM, 40 GB hard drive)
Operating System: OpenBSD
Shell access (OpenSSH), Gopher (GoFish), IRC (IRCD-Hybrid).

#2: AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred 2400+ (2 GHz), 512 MB of PC3200 (DDR400) RAM, 760 GB of space)
Operating System: CentOS 5.x
File server (Samba).

I also use a WRT54GL router with DD-WRT on it.

1) Compy: Gateway E-1000 (233 MHz Pentium I, 128 MB RAM, 10 GB HD)
Operating System: Debian Etch
Uses: LAMP, backup files, cron for streamripper (Japan-A-Radio), BashPodder

As for routers, I have a two Buffalo routers. One is a WHR-G54S running the Tomato firmware and the other is a WHR-G125 running DD-WRT.

Computer: Generic AMD 2400XP, 1GB RAM, (currently) 2x320GB HD + 2x120GB HD + 80GB HD for the OS
OS: Ubuntu Feisty
Uses: File server, Bit Torrent, Podcatching

Network: WRT54G (v2) running Tomato, just ordered a WRT54GL to expand coverage via WDS.

I have also just ordered 3x750GB SATA drives and a 4 port SATA controller to replace my current HD setup. Probably going to reinstall the OS still undecided on FreeBSD or Linux.

Have an nslu2 running debian lenny for music, photos, mail, files, light web server, and etc. From cron, I also use it to wake up systems via etherwake for automatic system updates. phpmyadmin and webmin
Have a dell gx1 using ubuntu 7.10 that I use for mail, inhouse web (crm, cms, web based desktops, and accounting), and media (except video0 server. also phpmyadmin and webmin
Have a generic p3 500 with ubuntu 7.10 for the moodle server for the student lab.also phpmyadmin and webmin
Have a generic amd duron 800 with k12ltsp that pushes the thin clients (3 compaq t30's, neoware 3000, and other systems on occasion) in the student lab. also webmin.
Have a k6-450 that runs freenas as a raid backup box that can be controlled via the web.
Have generic router with the stock firmware (I plan to convert it though) and several switches.
Still need to build a mythtv box and a trixbox.

AMD K6-III 400 Mhz with Athlon cooling fan (hey, it fits!), Asus P5A motherboard, 512 megs RAM, 40 Gig HD.

OS: Debian Stable

Uses: Podcatching, CVS, backup, Wiki, web server (testing, and internal use), E-mail.

This system runs bashpodder via a cron job, then generates an RSS feed using a Perl script I wrote. I can hit it from any system on the network with a custom hacked bashpodder I keep on my USB key. Just plug in, run bashpodder, and I'm off to work with my podcasts!