Home Server Help

[stevesey]

Our home sever is an old Dell PIII550, with 768Mb running 2003 server. Could do with upgrading soon, but it's used for the sort of stuff you are talking about.

Jobs it does:
Firewall & Proxy server (with virus scanning and content filtering)
Apache Web Server
NAS - Backup and Media Storage mainly
Print Server

Has been setup like this for about 3 years now, it's about time I bit the bullet on the upgrade front - keep thinking about a little mini-itx box (with a couple of big disks).

 

[HughJarse]

theres always a time capsule
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[mapleleaf]

i'm thinking about the ms home server ( HP mediasmart) route as well -mainly for being on 24/7 and carrying out automatic disk image backups of the client pcs on the network. also, yiou can acess the data on the home server from anywhere that has an internet connection - a bit like the way you can access ms webmail I suppose. having it specced to raid 5 would be an advantage. also once set up I belive its pretty much trouble free as its only serving data rather than processing it. and in a home environment - no real load issues . I wont be using it for streaming music as I have my new SONOS & Ripserver toys for that .

 

[IanA2]

i'm thinking about the ms home server ( HP mediasmart) route as well -mainly for being on 24/7 and carrying out automatic disk image backups of the client pcs on the network. also, yiou can acess the data on the home server from anywhere that has an internet connection - a bit like the way you can access ms webmail I suppose. having it specced to raid 5 would be an advantage. also once set up I belive its pretty much trouble free as its only serving data rather than processing it. and in a home environment - no real load issues . I wont be using it for streaming music as I have my new SONOS & Ripserver toys for that .

So far, touch wood, it's done everthing it says on the tin, very pleased with it

 

[mapleleaf]

So its a year later and I never got around to installing HP mediasmart, just come through a major renovation project is one excuse - but I am interested to find out if its still doing everything it says on the tin and are you still as pleased with it now as your were when you first installed it. Any issues along the way?

cheers

 

[IanA2]

Bullet proof so far, done everything it said it would. I forget about it in fact, everthing is done automatically. Only "mini-issue" I had was ,renewing the McAfee firewall/virus stuff, other than that, excellent.