[Deaf-lug] Home Server

[Joseph Gwynne-Jones]

The daft thing is...the majority of what people use them for is 
basically just as a network drive.

It's much much easier and quicker just to buy an external HDD with a 
network port. It's what I do. It's also much more power efficient and 
have an instant-on boot up time therefore making it more worthwhile just 
turning them off when not in use. It's not a good use of a old 
PC...frankly I think it's better to have them recycled rather than them 
sucking up a lot of power.

As for backup's - I use JungleDisk and store them on Amazon S3 
(currently this backup cost me 20p a month although I've not yet 
uploaded my photographs yet however this probably will increase to just 
£2 a month or thereabouts).

Dafydd Eveleigh wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Hope you all had an ace Christmas and looking forward to the new year.
>
> I have notice that there seems to be a growing popularity for the  
> "Home Server". Of course most of these home servers are Windows Based  
> (Yuuk) also there are rumours that Apple Mac will be launching their  
> version as the Mac Conference in 2009.
>
> http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mediasmart-server/?jumpid=ex_r602_go/mediasmartserver
>
> I just wondered how easy is it to create something similar with Linux  
> preferably Ubuntu?
>
> Regards
>
> Dy
>
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