If you had free dedicated hosting, free bandwidth. What would you do with it?

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To the point - I work for a company that does a fair bit in the online marketplace. They have a couple of data centers. Have a shitload of Dell servers, and just installed a mammoth new blade system (something like 28 CPU, fully redundant, running VMware ESX). There are 100Mbit pipes coming in and out of both centres. Which currently one is being utilised about 1% and the other about 40% (My Torrence). This is charged as an unlimited service and the company is charged a flat rate.

My job is more of an engineer, i created and maintain the network infrastructure and security. And manage a few of the Linux servers.

My boss has given me a few of the Dell PowerEdge servers in data centre 1 to do what i want with. At the moment i am hosting my own DNS, Mail and FTP and one website for my brother. But i think i could be doing alot more with this oppotunity. Or atleast getting some cash off it.

So decent unlimited bandwidth. Lots of horse power. Fully redundant and managed. All for free. What would you do with it? I am more asking out of curiorisity. As i have never gotten fully into IM, apart from one stint in adult which didn't work out and left me jaded.
 


First thing i thought about was to set up some shared hosting. I am pretty efficient with setting up my own virtual apache sites but im any software which allows the customers to manage their own sites. I was just playing around with some though, and it's not that hard at all. So hosting may be viable. What is probably not viable is i'd basically have to give away bandwidth to get any customers, as you know how cut-throat the market is at the moment. *looking at you Subigo* :P

The porn tube style site actually did cross my mind, as i still own a really awesome adult domain name which is sitting their collecting dust. I was looking at some scripts jus thte other day to do this but nothing seemed good enough out of the box, and i dont have any skills in coding to get my own running. Plus... full movies.. christ, i know the bandwidth is free but that would be pretty intense. I guess i could set traffic shaping rules on the firewall to soften the blow.

Another idea i had was a VPN/Proxy/tunneling service. There is a few of these springing up lately people are using for anonymity online. Only problem is the legality of what the customers may actually be doing could land me in hot water.
 
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