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Looking at buying an Xserve

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Not sure where I should put this. Feel free to move.

Prices of G4 Xserves have gone way down on eBay, so I'm thinking of buying an Xserve and getting it hosted somewhere.

I'd like to offer free hosting for Mac-related websites. I used to offer a service called MacintoshDevelopers.net which gave away hosting to open source and freeware Mac developers. I would start that up again on the Xserve. I would also be open to hosting other Mac related sites such as news, forums, etc.

I think I can do some other neat stuff too like offer my own version of iDisks - which are nothing but AFP drives and I think OS X Server can do that easily. So I could offer maybe 50 MB free and you could connect from any Mac and load your word processing files or something.
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that sounds like a good idea, now that the price of them has come down on ebay it would be affordable, and setting it up and maintaining it would be easy