Hardware

Released by Dell in 2002, the PowerEdge 1650 is a powerful and flexible server that can use dual Pentium 3 processors running at 1.4 GHz and up to four gigabytes of error-correcting (ECC) memory. The PowerEdge 1650 is a high performance, highly available, highly manageable, rack-dense dual-processor 1U general-purpose (GP) server ideally suited for edge-of-network, infrastructure, high performance compute clustering, and thin client/server-based computing environments.

• Intel Pentium 3 1.26 GHz
• 512 MB ECC SDRAM
• Two internal 76GB Ultra160 SCSI drives RAID 1 configuration
• CD ROM
• Floppy Disc Drive
• 2 x Intel Pro 1000 XT Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
• ATI Rage XL PCI
• 2 x USB ports
• 1 x serial port
• External SCSI port
• VGA ports front and back

Software

Preinstalled BlueOnyx 5.4 operating system. BlueOnyx is a Linux distribution ,based on CentOS v5.4, which aims to deliver a turnkey server appliance for webhosting. It comes with a web based GUI interface which allows you (and your email, FTP and webhosting clients!) to manage most aspects of the server, its sites and accounts through browser based interface. It is open source software, released under a Sun modified BSD license.