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  • Registered: 2010-11-10
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Topic: Things to do with a VPS

I've been recently thinking about getting a small debian VPS to play with, but other than hosting a website, what are some clever/cool/random things you can do with one? I've been thinking of doing some torrents, running backups to it, and just learning more debian stuff. Any ideas?

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  • Registered: 2010-03-26
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Re: Things to do with a VPS

When you're out on untrusted/public WIFI you can SSH tunnel though it.

  • pitje
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  • Registered: 2009-02-10
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Re: Things to do with a VPS

I think i'd use it like you said: torrents, backups, ssh-relay, perhaps a CounterStrike server for when I get nostalgic tongue

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Re: Things to do with a VPS

Minecraft server for #!-ers?

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  • aiBo
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Re: Things to do with a VPS

jmbarnes wrote:

Minecraft server for #!-ers?

+1 smile

  • From: Texas
  • Registered: 2010-11-10
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Re: Things to do with a VPS

Thanks for all your suggestions! I've been meaning to try out minecraft, this sounds like the perfect excuse...

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  • Registered: 2011-03-04
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Re: Things to do with a VPS

Just so you know, Minecraft servers are very CPU instensive. You'll be needing a gig of ram to comfortably host 8-10 people, in my experience smile