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I Got a legacy Dell PowerEdge R300 sitting around. What absurd/fun project should I use it for?

Hey everyone!

I've got a classic Dell PowerEdge R300 taking up space in the lab. Before I turn it into a high-tech space heater for the upcoming winter, I want to give it one last glorious job.

What’s the most ridiculous, fun, or unexpectedly useful thing I should host on this piece of history?

Hit me with your best (or worst) ideas!

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u/Skanehostofficial — 14 hours ago

Why does the hpe prolinat dl360gen7 needs to scream ????

It is a cpu xeon 16 gig ram pc3L10600R one disk ( more is on the way from Germany) two redundant psu one is 460 watt the left is 750 watt with 6 fans that are also redundant so it is hot swap and it is sounding like this!!!!!

u/Skanehostofficial — 1 day ago

Detta är min första server som jag startade upp

Dent är hs1 om någon har konto på skanehost.com så är det hs1 en dell 1950 en gammal med Fb dimm minnen som blir så varma så dem kokar så därför har man kylflänsar på dem. Om ni har funderingar på vad denna kan vara till om det ska fortsätta vara gratis servers på. Så gå in på länken här min discord https://discord.com/invite/FrRqCjGgCN jag heter goda där så skicka ett dm om vad ni tycker vad den ska vara mer till på pterodactyl.

u/Skanehostofficial — 2 days ago

How we set up our high-performance node infrastructure (and what we learned along the way) + Feedback wanted!

: I’m David, founder of Skanehost.com, a hosting provider focused on low-latency performance and dedicated resources).

Over the past few months, my team and I have been working heavily on optimizing our hardware stack to tackle common bottlenecks like storage I/O lag and inconsistent CPU performance. We wanted to build a fast, reliable, and straightforward hosting service without hidden limits.

u/Skanehostofficial — 12 days ago

I built a Minecraft host that doesn't oversell RAM. Here's what that actually costs.

Most hosts run memory overallocation at 200–400%. It works because servers rarely hit their ceiling at the same time — until they do, and everyone lags at once.

I set my nodes to 0%. Sell 4 GB, allocate 4 GB, no exceptions. What I learned:

  • It roughly halves how many customers fit on a box.
  • CPU is the real constraint, not RAM. Paper is mostly single-threaded, so a node with many slow cores is worse than one with few fast ones. I had to cut my CPU-per-GB ratio in half to be honest about it.
  • The free tier only works if servers stop when nobody is playing. Mine shut down after 5 minutes idle.
  • My status page shows real node capacity, so the order form refuses sizes I can't actually deliver.

Running it out of Skåne, Sweden, partly on solar. Happy to answer anything about the setup — Pterodactyl, provisioning, the billing side.

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u/Skanehostofficial — 15 days ago
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I built a Minecraft host that doesn't oversell RAM. Here's what that actually costs.

Most hosts run memory overallocation at 200–400%. It works because servers rarely hit their ceiling at the same time — until they do, and everyone lags at once.

I set my nodes to 0%. Sell 4 GB, allocate 4 GB, no exceptions. What I learned:

  • It roughly halves how many customers fit on a box.
  • CPU is the real constraint, not RAM. Paper is mostly single-threaded, so a node with many slow cores is worse than one with few fast ones. I had to cut my CPU-per-GB ratio in half to be honest about it.
  • The free tier only works if servers stop when nobody is playing. Mine shut down after 5 minutes idle.
  • My status page shows real node capacity, so the order form refuses sizes I can't actually deliver.

Running it out of Skåne, Sweden, partly on solar. Happy to answer anything about the setup — Pterodactyl, provisioning, the billing side

Skanehost.com

u/Skanehostofficial — 15 days ago

Minecraft-server i Sverige. Ditt minne delas inte med någon annan.

De flesta hostar säljer 60 GB på en maskin med 32 och hoppas att ingen märker det. Jag gör inte det — köper du 4 GB finns 4 GB, även när alla andra spelar.

Servrarna står i Skåne, panelen är på svenska, och supporten är jag som äger maskinerna. Gratisplan utan kort, betalt från 99 kr/mån, hela beloppet tillbaka inom 14 dagar.

u/Skanehostofficial — 15 days ago