HI All,
A friend of mine has a Google Mini-0020 3GHz Search Appliance that he said I can have. I have heard about these, but never put one into production.
What kinds of things can I do with it? (obviously I know about search and indexing documents) but i mean it is standard PC hardware.
Is there an OS on it? (Like Windows Server?)
I assume that I could nuke it and make it into anything I wanted.
Could I do more with it and retain the Google search? Like host my complete website on the box?
Thoughts are appreciated!
Best Answer
You can't host other services on the machine. Essentially if you want to do anything except use it as a search appliance you'll have to wipe it and in that process you'll lose the search capabilities.