Do you have a local or public server at home?

blahblalblah · 03-10-2011, 08:19 PM

Right now it's someday. My computer is acting as both a desktop and server. My plans is to get a refurbished 1U server and put freeBSD or openBSD.

It will be a local server acting as a samba, rsync, ssh and media streaming server. Maybe a mirror too so I can do a net-install from my server.

MS3FGX · 03-10-2011, 08:32 PM

Yes, aside from running my website, the server also handles local file storage and DNS.

eveningsky339 · 03-10-2011, 08:35 PM

I'm configuring my laptop as a tor relay, which is the closest I will come to using it as a server.

vtel57 · 03-10-2011, 09:34 PM

I once dreamed of building a rockin' and rollin' AMD dual Opteron home server running Slackware, but with the drop in the cost of hard drive space, I can easily have three terabytes on three separate drives on my main system. Who needs the server at that point? I can still network my individual systems to access my main system. The days of the home JBOD server arrays are pretty much moot now.

chrisretusn · 03-10-2011, 11:47 PM

I have a simple nfs, time, dhcp, and backup server.

Nothing fancy, it's a Compaq Presario S33000NX with AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ with 1GB memory and two hard drives.

blahblalblah · 03-11-2011, 01:35 PM

Thanks to all who posted and read the thread.

Blinker_Fluid · 03-11-2011, 01:48 PM

Got one in the basement, similar to chrisretusn's, setup just a basic file, DNLA server. (Just bought a 1TB drive for it yesterday!

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