RE: MS Home Server

["John" <jpm.egroup1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would be interested in people's experiences as well... particularly
thinking about security.  AIUI, the server wants to use UPnP to open up
your
firewall / router.  Given MS security track record, I am not sure that I
would want to allow their software to punch holes to the outside world...

Of course, I could just be paranoid...

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steve Healey
Sent: 04 February 2008 13:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MS Home Server

Hi Brian,

Sorry for the delay, I've been working away.

No as yet I haven't ordered one, that being said it still is my preferred
solution. I want to ensure that the hardware will be able to run SQL Server
& IIS with ease and the hard drives are easily upgradable, subject to
that I
should be ordering one in the next couple of weeks, I'll let you know how I
get on.

Cheers,

Steve

From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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] On Behalf
Of
ReynoldsB
Sent: 02 February 2008 23:53
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] MS Home Server

Hi Steve,

Did you ever buy one of these?

Did anyone buy one?

I am thinking of buying one and wondered what people thought of them.

B.

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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] On Behalf
Of
Steve Healey
Sent: 18 January 2008 12:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [ukha_d] MS Home Server

I know a number of you guys have been running the various beta version of
MS
Home Server and I wondered what the general feeling was?

I am replacing my rather large, 6 year old and over cumbersome storage
server with a NAS, probably a rack mounted Linksys, but I still need a
small
server to run a couple of applications. My first thought was to keep the
old
beast running but it does seem a waste of space and energy so I've have a
google around and found http://www.tranquil
<http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/
<http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/>
>
pc-shop.co.uk/ and they do what
looks like a very nice rack mountable solution with a very small footprint
and energy consumption

So the questions -

1. Should I jump on the MS Home Server band wagon?

2. Should I go for an off the shelf hardware solution or in the true
nature of HA pull my finger out and build one from scratch?

Many thanks,

Steve

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