Comments on: Windows Home Server: Microsoft’s Hall of Shame

By: DOUGman

DOUGman — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:11:46 +0000

Re: FreeNAS, I have been personally using and deploying NASlite, its a VERY stable product. You pay for a license to use it, but it helps out the developers, which btw are very responsive to the end users in the forums. Never once had a problem with file corruption, the MS home server product is a joke.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:41:32 +0000

Microsoft’s entry into this market where NAS software is a commodity seems as insane as a company’s attempt t sell ice to Eskimos.

…Which reminds me of all that “Windows Server 2008 has a Linux slant” pitch (hot air), assuming with great prejudice that Linux=CLI, thus perpetuating myths. Just forget about stability, the licence and the cost.

By: SubSonica

SubSonica — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:33:02 +0000

Not to mention mainstream hardware manufacturers starting to use Linux as OS of choice:

http://www.iomega-europe.com/item?SID=a97b1249bf317bc9bb1822ca95189ca07b8:4715&sku=200133610&tab=tech_specs#learnmore

Some other nice solutions ready to install on your existing hardware:

FreeNAS: Ultra-easy web administration and fits in a 8cm CDR!
http://www.freenas.org

Ebox Platform: You can use as File and Backup server, but comes with advanced features (mail server, instant messaging, web and dns proxy-cache, firewall…) can go as far as fully replace a PDC windows server.
http://www.ebox-platform.com

If you need to add a nifty backup server to use with your existing linux machine (piece of cake with Debian GNU/Linux) I encourage you to give Restore a try:
http://www.linux.com/feature/126716
http://restore-backup.com/

By: Woods

Woods — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:54:53 +0000

>Welcome to the Ubuntu Home Server Project

Couldn’t help noticing…

From the UHS Wiki (section Backup http://wiki.ubuntuhomeserver.org/index.php ) They were suggesting something called iFolder for backup (hadn’t heard of that one before)

On to the iFolder-site: http://www.ifolder.com/index.php …
What do you know, Novell and Mono, they’re everywhere…:-)