Is the a point of having Windows Home Server?
Windows Home Sever:
What’s the point of Windows Home server i think to myself as I stare and excogitate at my now installed 120-day Evaluation Windows Home Server. I installed it on a cheap (£5 – bargain off eBay!) P4 2.8, 1 Gig Ram, but i shoved in a 120GB instead of the the 40 Gig drive that came with the PC.
At home we have 3 PCs and my Laptop, so a central storage place makes sense…but i think to myself, can’t i do this anyway on one of the XP/Vista machines and just share that folder? It makes sense from an economic aspect because a server needs to be on 24/7 and with the cost of electricity going up and the concern of global warming/carbon foot prints.
Backup Features
The nifty feature of automatic back-up is quite tempting, but is it really worth it? All that hard drive space required for images of each PCs drive, and my main desktop has a 500GB drive, so really at least a terabyte of storage is required.
Remote Access
Another nice feature is the remote access, say I’m at uni, and i need a file…maybe my course work which was on my USB drive, and my drive failed, then i could access my work by typing in the domain name and bam! I’d have access to my work…seems quite neat idea, but i could easily implement a ftp server and use a dynamic domain name and port forwarding…
Well…..?
So has Microsoft got my money for the £80 ish it costs for the OEM version? Well I’m not entirely convinced but i’ll give it a go, and see how it performs. Mind you I’ll put it to good use by running out Day of Defeat Source server for the VBC clan on it 
…if i could manage to get mani plug in working for the new orange box update!!!