Hai Yi wrote: > first, i have already had my server running on a ubuntu box at home, i > want to upgrade it to a more reliable solution since my data become > more important. > As to Tony's question, the services I need to have are: web pages, > ssh, ftp, and svn; also as a media server for internal use. > I have only a home router, but it's fine for me, at least for now; i > don't really need a static IP, everytime it changes, I just re-route > it, it doesn't happen too often. > As of the hard disk, I am thinking of 1TB, and having a raid support, > but I heard we can have it in a software way?
In my opinion, the most important element of setting up a home server is backing up the "user data" and the "server configuration data", not as much in selecting "robust" hardware. All hardware fails, and in particular in my house I seem to have problems with dust clogging up the fans so I have to disassemble and clean them at least once a year (spring). Note that backing up is different than archiving... it is a good idea to archive data on different type of media, but backing up data (as with BackupPC) seems most economically accomplished with additional spinning hard disk platters. Ideally this backup process would go offsite to a service like rsync.net or spideroak.com [1], but for the volume of data that I end up with the cost can add up quickly so I settle for local backup. Once your data is safe, the choice of hardware becomes much less critical. I recently switched to using an MSI Wind PC like Scott Miller did in order to reduce the noise and power consumption issues with my old clunker hardware. [...] [1] These are not endorsements... I have not used either service. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[email protected]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
