I mentioned back in August that I'd changed my backups to use a NAS enclosure rather than a full blown server. I'm glad I did, as I recently suffered a drive failure on the NAS which, if it had happened in my old server, I wouldn't have known about it.…
It's been a long time since I turned my old PC into a home media server, but time has come for that machine and some of its components, so it's time it retired with grace. Fortunately the main issues are around the network card, which stops working every time it…
Most people are run all realising that the cloud is just someone else's computer which you use for a time. Cloud computing and the benefits of elastic computing are available, but not everyone will we benefits from their investment in "the cloud ", and many will be put off…
I'm a huge advocate of taking backups of things. So much so, I've got my own home server backing up to "the cloud" with all of my files on it. It needs a bit of an organisational shuffle I think, but the idea is there. One place I don't have…