A few months ago, I decided to purchase a SheevaPlug Development Kit to replace my previous home server which was an old Dell workstation. The main reason to replace the old machine was power usage, for a machine that is sitting idle most of the time, it costs a lot of money to run.
All I needed was a device on which I could run linux to run some typical core network services (DNS, DHCP, NTP) as well a some extras like my internal mail server and proxy. With a power consumption of only a few Watts, the SheevaPlug was ideal for this purpose. Its a pretty small device with the following specifications: