[Deaf-lug] Home Server

[Ben Fletcher]

A lot of people in the IT world are talking about what is known as
"cloud computing" in 2009.

To quote Ian Hughes: "People, normal people, do not want to run
servers, patch things, have kit sitting around."

You've been hearing about grid computing, on-demand services, etc.,
they're happening.  Here are some links about cloud computing from a
quick Google to get you started:

http://blogs.gartner.com/david_cearley/2008/10/14/gartner%E2%80%99s-top-10-strategic-technologies-for-2009/
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/02/half-of-enterprises-see-cloud-presence-by-2010/
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Can-Sun-Bring-Back-Its-Lustre-Through-Cloud-Computing/

Ben

2009/1/2 Joseph Gwynne-Jones <mailinglist at gwallgofi.com>:
> 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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