My home server
- Published June 21st, 2006 in Free Software, Ubuntu
What started as a rudimentary file server, now serves the following purposes:
- File server (NFS and SMB)
- Email server (Postfix as the MTA and Courier for IMAP)
- iFolder 3.5 server
- DAAP content provider (mt-daapd is a precious tools for sharing my music over my network)
- Subversion server
- Backup agent — not a very smart one but handles the basic stuff. It has cron jobs for retrieving certain things from the net like database dumps
Fully fledged by Free Open Source Software. SO underlying being Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Best of all, it was piece of cake setting it all up.
If you want to take it to the next level, you could put all those services on a little Linksys NSLU2 “slug” NAS device, about the size of a small paperback book and quiet as a mouse. I moved all my music and other media over to one of these and hardly ever turn on my honking big thundering PC in the background unless I really need something from Windows.
My main desktop is now running Ubuntu. Slowly, I’ll phase out all the M$ stuff!
That would be great since this machine makes a lot of noise. But since I already owned everything (except for the RAID disks) this was a really cheap deal and is working quite fine.. except for the noise eheh :-)