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If you are having to question the need for one, then clearly no 
I use mine at home as a file server, a back up server, an FTP server, a usenet download server, a VPN server and as a config machine or hard disk recovery machine just incase I am fixing PC's for someone and I need to recover data from a hard drive.
I use mine at home as a file server, a back up server, an FTP server, a usenet download server, a VPN server and as a config machine or hard disk recovery machine just incase I am fixing PC's for someone and I need to recover data from a hard drive.
If you are having to question the need for one, then clearly no
I use mine at home as a file server, a back up server, an FTP server, a usenet download server, a VPN server and as a config machine or hard disk recovery machine just incase I am fixing PC's for someone and I need to recover data from a hard drive.
it was kinda to get an idea of what people use a home server for not really to decide if I wanted one or not
If you are having to question the need for one, then clearly no
I use mine at home as a file server, a back up server, an FTP server, a usenet download server, a VPN server and as a config machine or hard disk recovery machine just incase I am fixing PC's for someone and I need to recover data from a hard drive.
This.
Most people have a home server for backing up and storing files. Or for centralising their media so it can be accessed anywhere around the home.
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I know, but that's the way it's gone of late... Should have another forum under home networking or something for NAS\DIY boxes.
But the forum title is "Servers and Enterprise Solutions" which really is two seperate entities as someone could read that as 1) "Servers" and 2) "Enterprise Solutions"
This is also true, but again comes down to the description of "Servers", and the context in which it is used.
Given the enterprise nature of the forum (and the description thereof, which itself begins with MID-RANGE, high-range, SANs, etc), a "Server" in this context (to me anyway) is a branded server-grade hardware node, or indeed the "server" operating systems thereof. The bold-underlined bit pretty much confirms my argument.
Whilst a node at the middle of a home LAN is sat there "serving" files (for whatever purpose), it isn't (and should never be) compared to a server in an enterprise environment, which is a different beast altogether.
In a perfect world, this sub-forum would (for argument's sake) start at a baseline of SBS, and work right up to the intricacies of failover clustered SCVMM deployments and HA applications contained within (obviously using MS products as a unit of scale rather than limiting to those products named).
The general hardware and windows & software forums are more than adequate for discussion of WHS and home-built file share machines.
A brief look at the type of threads contained here (exchange 2010 environments, active directory intricacies, etc etc) would show the intended genre for this sub-forum.
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I think those who have an enterprise question have people they can ask (i.e. their support company). I've held off from asking questions in the board because where no one in our team knows the answer because our next point of call is the support company that we pay.
I know I've helped users out with Exchange environments and AD environments within this sub-forum. Whilst it's sometimes advantageous to use a support-contract, a) one might not always be available, especially in SMB environments, and b) it might actually be quicker to ask here first (plus that way, you learn).
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The only thing I would say as regards the home server versus enterprise is that surely some of the enterprise guys could probably help out with home server queries. I understand that hand holding and double guessing quickly becomes a pain, but I’m sure that there are ‘home server’ enthusiasts that would be happy to expand their capabilities beyond file server/back-up NAS type services.
I’m not saying that creating a home server sub-forum wouldn’t work, but at the end of the day is it really an issue? I keep my nose out of the forums that I have no interest in or know I have no knowledge of- I might know what windows exchange is, but I also know I don’t know jack.
I spent weeks hanging around the HP Microserver thread, and searching other forums, to deal with my issues [hardware not mental]- and then posted a query in the hope of some help, and I am grateful for the advice that has been offered- and I’d hate to think I, or others, have intruded on a ‘big boys club’.
I’m not saying that creating a home server sub-forum wouldn’t work, but at the end of the day is it really an issue? I keep my nose out of the forums that I have no interest in or know I have no knowledge of- I might know what windows exchange is, but I also know I don’t know jack.
I spent weeks hanging around the HP Microserver thread, and searching other forums, to deal with my issues [hardware not mental]- and then posted a query in the hope of some help, and I am grateful for the advice that has been offered- and I’d hate to think I, or others, have intruded on a ‘big boys club’.
You can fine more information about Node and Server at following link.
http://www.host.co.in/knowledgebase/node-server
http://www.host.co.in/knowledgebase/node-server
Thats what im planning to do with mine.
Really wanted a HTPC/server combo but Server 2008 R2 was rubbish for anything media related and had to install Windows 7. It was kinda expected but didnt expect it to be so poor.