Hello, friends!
I'm searching for some cheapest SBC to run a web and sql servers in my
home local network. It should  perform a query to 100,000-records phone
directory. I do not think that the whole PC is a suitable solution - I want
it to be silent and power-efficient.
At the same time, I don't want it to execute the query for 5 minutes - it
should be fast enough. 
USB ports to host a printer or a web-cam is a plus. What's the best
choice? 
The most of products I saw were rather expensive and had extra features I
actually did not need... 

redkaa wrote:

> Hello, friends!
> I'm searching for some cheapest SBC to run a web and sql servers in my
> home local network. It should  perform a query to 100,000-records phone
> directory. I do not think that the whole PC is a suitable solution - I want
> it to be silent and power-efficient.
> At the same time, I don't want it to execute the query for 5 minutes - it
> should be fast enough. 
> USB ports to host a printer or a web-cam is a plus. What's the best
> choice? 
> The most of products I saw were rather expensive and had extra features I
> actually did not need...

I have installed a standard Debian installation on my LinkStation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_network-attached_storage_series

You can get the device with 500 GB harddisk for about 140 Euro, which is
cheaper than some less powerful special embedded systems. It has a USB
port, which can be used for printers and webcams (if supported by Linux).

-- 
Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de

Thanks for the hint. Is there anything discless? May be a router will do?
Some WRT-based device?  From linksys or may be even buffalo? (Although it
seems, it's quite uneasy finding this stuff here, in Russia) 

redkaa wrote:

> Thanks for the hint. Is there anything discless? May be a router will do?
> Some WRT-based device?  From linksys or may be even buffalo? (Although it
> seems, it's quite uneasy finding this stuff here, in Russia)

The LinkSys system has a small internal flash. Maybe you can boot the main
system from an USB memory stick and sell the harddisk inside :-)

-- 
Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de