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Ideas for what to do with a web server

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I work for a large ISP here in Aus and one of the perks of the job is that I get $60 a month off any of their products.
This is a perk I have been neglecting for 7 months and I want to rectify it.
I was thinking of renting a web server.

They have a VPS offering where I could get a virtual hosted server with 1GB RAM, a 2GHz CPU, 30GB of storage, 100GB of network traffic, 1 static IP and Windows (2003/2008) or Linux (Ubuntu/CentOS/Debian) as an OS.
And all basically for free with my staff discount

I'm looking for (legal) ideas on what to do with such a server.

My first thought was create a Minecraft server, which I can do, but that wont really use much of the box unless it became really popular.

So I'm opening the floor to ideas. If you can think of a good use for a web server with these specs, then post your idea's here and maybe we can make your dreams a reality - just remember I hate bloggers, furries and vegans.

So nothing related to those topics, please.
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Battle.net emulator for SC2. :P
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LOL, you code it, I'll host it!
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Try a barrel roll.
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And here I thought you'd simply use it for midget tranny pr0n or something similar... :lol:

Games server is a possibility but they might ***** about usage and bandwidth.
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Prime wrote:Games server is a possibility but they might ***** about usage and bandwidth.
100GB of traffic a month?
Nothing to sneeze at...

Any other idea's?

You guys want a game server... which game(s) :?:
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How about... helping out a developer and DBA user group and hosting ERDDUG on it's own domain? It just needs .NET installed to host, preferably .NET 4. I could try and get the thing running in Mono if you do go the Linux route...
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GDI_Lord wrote:How about... helping out a developer and DBA user group and hosting ERDDUG on it's own domain? It just needs .NET installed to host, preferably .NET 4. I could try and get the thing running in Mono if you do go the Linux route...
If you pay for the domain registration I will happily let you have access to setup and run your site.
I was thinking of going Ubuntu or Debian, but I could do Windows 2003 just as easily.

PM me if you are serious.
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I said legal uses :P
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I said legal uses :P
so streaming barely legal would be out of the question ?
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