Cheap home server on a budget

DJMK4

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I am building a cheap home server which will be mainly used as a download box/file server for network sharing (to stream media - Non HD) etc.

Do you think an AMD Semoron 3100+ processor with a sufficiant amount of RAM will be enough for this? Not sure if im going to go for a Windows or Linux OS yet.

What do you think?
 
Well I run my downloads on a VPS with 512MB of RAM and it's easily quick enough, I'd not necessarily recommend it (I have a quick connection I can pull the files off with) but it proves you don't need anything at all to run those tasks. If you want cheap just get an atom board, give it a gig of RAM and put some variety of Linux on it.
 
Yes that should be fine. Dont go for the windows root, chuck Amahi Home Server on there.

Lots of bundled software and free to use. Its based on Fedora but they are working on a Ubuntu version.

I plan to use this next week on my HS build.

Or you could just us FreeNas.
 
That Amahi looks good.

I want to pick something that will give me NAS functionality but other functionality (not just a NAS), I want the ability to also use this as a download box, using a torrent client installed on this box which can be accessed over a web-browser, would this be possible?

also backup solutions etc.

Looking at freenas, im pretty restricted here aint i to it just being a NAS box?

Is there anyway to install Ubuntu server or similar and have freenas or similar running on this OS as an app?
 
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DJMK4 said:
That Amahi looks good.

I want to pick something that will give me NAS functionality but other functionality (not just a NAS), I want the ability to also use this as a download box, using a torrent client installed on this box which can be accessed over a web-browser, would this be possible?

also backup solutions etc.

Looking at freenas, im pretty restricted here aint i to it just being a NAS box?

Is there anyway to install Ubuntu server or similar and have freenas or similar running on this OS as an app?
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I'd strongly advice setting up torrentflux, lovely app and works brilliantly for me running under Centos (that's just preference, I've always worked with Redhat so I can't stand ubuntu - it'd work just as well with any distribution...
 
DJMK4 said:
That Amahi looks good.

I want to pick something that will give me NAS functionality but other functionality (not just a NAS), I want the ability to also use this as a download box, using a torrent client installed on this box which can be accessed over a web-browser, would this be possible?

also backup solutions etc.

Looking at freenas, im pretty restricted here aint i to it just being a NAS box?

Is there anyway to install Ubuntu server or similar and have freenas or similar running on this OS as an app?
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No need for FreeNAS if you go Ubuntu Server. I'm using mine for MythTV, as a SqueezeCenter host, video server, torrent downloads. Pretty much whatever I want really. I use Webmin to administer it plus I run VNC for those times when I want a proper desktop interface. I'm very happy with it all. :cool:
 
Think im going to go with ubuntu server then :)

Bought ram, hdd (os), cpu from members market earlier, already have a case, psu and optical drive lined up, all i need is some big fat beefy disks to go in and a motherboard :)

Also seeing as part of my line of work is network security, is there anything useful I can do with regards to this? I already have a hardware firewall which I need to set-up properly on my networking, but I would like to do things like bandwidth management if possible.
 
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Think im going to go with ubuntu server then :)

Bought ram, hdd (os), cpu from members market earlier, already have a case, psu and optical drive lined up, all i need is some big fat beefy disks to go in and a motherboard :)

Also seeing as part of my line of work is network security, is there anything useful I can do with regards to this? I already have a hardware firewall which I need to set-up properly on my networking, but I would like to do things like bandwidth management if possible.
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If you're looking for a step-by-step how-to guide then you might want to take a look at this site. I built my server using it: build a media server using Ubuntu

HTH and most of all, have fun! :cool:
 
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