[Deaf-lug] Home Server

[Joseph Gwynne-Jones]

I myself use some aspect of this - JungleDisk backup make use of Amazon 
S3 for storage - I have my own Amazon S3 bucket for this. JungleDisk is 
also fully open-source so even if the company goes under, the source 
code is there for anyone (unlikely though as they've recently been 
bought by Rackspace)

Dropdisk is another one that also use S3 - although for this one I only 
use it as a "flash drive" albiet an internet based one - I do not use it 
as a backup because it goes onto THEIR S3 bucket, not your own.

There are quite a number of websites that make use of 
cloud-computing...Twitter is one for example (I know they make use of 
S3...no idea if this now include EC2 or not).

Ben - since you're very interested in this sort of thing too, what are 
you doing with it? (either personally or any public projects from IBM 
(those that is in public knowledge obviously :))

Ben Fletcher wrote:
> 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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