home server

[merge]

so you wanna talk about setting up a home server? I'm just planning to do that I have been running ubuntu on my server for quite some time and experimented a lot with it. I don't like it anymore, so it's basically only a Tor-relay today, but it doesn't actually do stuff for me. (it's a cheap, low power intel atom board)

I plan to set up clean, fresh headless Debian stable and a classic LAMP with
SSL (i never set that up before, that'd be a totally awesome topic for you guys (for me))
OwnClowd,
OpenXCAP (if you're using VoIP, you appreciate that)
ejabberd (just in case)
A nice web-RSS reader (?) or even EyeOS?
A Diaspora node (low priority until an official beta-phase starts)

thanks

[josh4trunks]

I tried debian and there was no difference with Ubuntu server. I believe both will give you the same results. I ended up returning to Ubuntu because of a feature in their /etc/fstab not failing when waiting to mount a remote share. (Ubuntu lets you put a flag 'nobootwait' while debian doesn't have that feature). Other then that everything was EXACTLY the same for me.

[fok]

Home servers huh?

I use mine for:
samba sharing
sftp access with winscp (and ssh with putty of course)
rsync backup (using a script and hard-links for history) local to another drive and over the internet for important folders
2 security camera's on capture-cards with "motion" (still working on an internal website to show them)
Scripts to remove old folders of motion and backup
Playing music, using mpd and (nc)mpc over ssh.

I want mine to be:
cheap and power efficient (currently free hardware running free software but on paid electricity)
quiet

I don't care for raid, since it doesn't replace backup, and some downtime is acceptable for me.
Oh, and I run debian squeeze, on an amd duron with 1gb memory and 3 pata drives

[Ruszip1]

so i have some questions about this home server thing. as it is now, i dual boot all my machines on win 7 and ubuntu 11.04. im thinking this spring in going to be building a new machine so im going to have some left over parts. i have a asus p5wds premium mobo and an older intel pentium d dualcore i dont remember what speed it is off the top of my head, im pretty sure it is a 64 bit cpu. its all good stuff, a few years old but still good. i cant remember what vid card i got in that old machine maybe a 7 series nvidia card though. it right now has a 500 gb hard drive in it though im almost thinking of setting it up with a few 3 tb drives or maybe just some 2 tb drives, i dont know yet. mostly i would just be using it to store music movies and misc files on. but i do have a e4200 linksys wireless router that has a usb 2.0 port on it and i have an old linksys network storage link with 2 usb 2.0 ports on it. should i bother building a server or just use the usb port on the router or the network storage link? i dont know anything about streaming stuff over my network to say my ps3. as much as i love ubuntu, i just cant seem to get away from windows, anyways, i already own the licenses. i still cant find a good way to play netflix on ubuntu. and between the netbook, the laptop, the computer in my bedroom and the media center pc in the livingroom windows media center kinda still has me hooked. im still looking into the linux media center stuff but with no easy way to record tv shows and watch them across my network that is atleast fairly easy to setup and run. sorry if im rambling on. anyways, im a little lost.

[jungle-boogie]

im still looking into the linux media center stuff but with no easy way to record tv shows and watch them across my network that is atleast fairly easy to setup and run. sorry if im rambling on. anyways, im a little lost.

I have never used it but a lot of people like XMBC. Check out this LAS from August 2010 on XMBC:
http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/1082 ... as-s17e10/

I haven't used it since I don't have a lot of media on my computers and if I do, i just use nfs and copy the data from one computer to another.