Angelika Maier wrote:Now I have to ask really dtupidly: what does the server do? Is it a backup for your stuff? It looks neat and small.
It's my webserver, when people go to my website they are actually connecting to the computer shown above. It's also my email server, handles all my incoming and outgoing email. I also run a webmail service on it, like Gmail, etc. so I can access my email from anywhere that has the internet available.
I don't use Wordpress, but it is certainly capable of running it.
It also functions as my Domain Name Server(DNS), both authoritative and resolving/caching. However, most people have no clue what a DNS is even though most people use them daily.
Modern computers are amazing. This little thing in my hand would have been science fiction back when I first learned about computers, it is more powerful than a Super Computer from the 80s. It is faster, has more memory, and more storage space, than a top of the line desktop computer from the 1990s.
Quad core, 64 bit processors running at 1200 MHz, 1 GB of Ram, 64 GB of storage.
Oh, and it only draws 2/3 Watt of electricity, I can run it for over 2 months on less than 1 kWh.