Oh jeez, Streaming media, data backup, home website and email. Home computing is like running a small company.
Within my web site i will be adding notes on reviews, recommendations and how to pages on some of my home and work projects.
Within my web site i will be adding notes on reviews, recommendations and how to pages on some of my home and work projects.
My Home Network: As of Feb '09
1 - Wireless AP
1 - Wireless BELKIN - F5D7633UK4A Router.
1 - 24 Port FSM726 Managed Switch
3 - Laptops Wireless and Wired
4.5 - desktop PC's Wired
3 - Servers (Running: DHCP, DNS, File sharing, IIS 6, Exchange 2003, Internet Security Gateway, Antivirus)
2 - iPhones (If they count)
1 - Wireless AP
1 - Wireless BELKIN - F5D7633UK4A Router.
1 - 24 Port FSM726 Managed Switch
3 - Laptops Wireless and Wired
4.5 - desktop PC's Wired
3 - Servers (Running: DHCP, DNS, File sharing, IIS 6, Exchange 2003, Internet Security Gateway, Antivirus)
2 - iPhones (If they count)
Next Project
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
With having several servers running containing crucial data such as emails i need to implement an off server backup. At the moment i have the EeeBox running a Full and incremental backups to a partition on the same drive, all well and good untill drive falls over.
There are several options available to me, from: Windows Storage Server 2003, Openfiler, NASlight or with more recommendations FreeNAS.
FreeNAS, designed to be an absolutely skeletal operating system to maximize the resources devoted to storage.
Despite being so slim, FreeNAS is still feature packed, and even has support for BitTorrent and remote web-based file management via QuiXplorer; it even serves as the perfect iTunes music server. You can boot FreeNAS off nearly any media: hard drives, optical discs, floppy disks, and flash-based media. It has support for both hardware and software based RAID, disk encryption, and management of groups and users via local authentication or Microsoft Domains.
This would be perfect to be run off an old P4 Fujitsu previously my old web and mail server.
lifehacker.com: Best Home Server Software
Despite being so slim, FreeNAS is still feature packed, and even has support for BitTorrent and remote web-based file management via QuiXplorer; it even serves as the perfect iTunes music server. You can boot FreeNAS off nearly any media: hard drives, optical discs, floppy disks, and flash-based media. It has support for both hardware and software based RAID, disk encryption, and management of groups and users via local authentication or Microsoft Domains.
This would be perfect to be run off an old P4 Fujitsu previously my old web and mail server.
lifehacker.com: Best Home Server Software