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On 18/12/12 12:44, Gordon Henderson wrote:
That makes me realise that I am lucky here. I usually get about 13MB/sec most of the time. Sometimes, at busy times of the day, it goes down to 10 or 11 Mb/s.On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Neil Winchurst wrote: Having a server just means a handy place to keep all your stuff. You can then access it from any device you own. The devices can then be light weight (or lighter) as the server is then there to hold the data - so the server has the big noisy disks and fans, and UPS and be kept in a cupboard under the stairs while your desktops can use SSDs, fanless motherboards, PSUs, and so on. Well that's what we (mostly) do in Drogon towers - the Desktops have smallish SSDs in (quiet, low power) and mount the bulk of data off the server(s) via NFS. When not in the office, I can even VPN in and mount the data remotely, however the issue then is the outgoing bandwidth of my Internet conection - currently 1.2Mb/sec.
Thanks for the info. Will do more research. I have on old computer in a cupboard which could probably do as a server. Thanks,Don't forget backups though, but that applies to anything, server or not. You could use "cloud storage" for backup, but it tends to be expensive for what you get, however it's handy for off-site backups of sorts.
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