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Building a Linux Home Based Media Server

  • 14-01-2011 09:21PM
    #1
    Mike Literous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    My first time setting up my own server but I have read up on it. Yet I still have a few opinion-y questions that I'd like answered.
    Would I be better getting Windows Home Server?
    How much RAM should I consider for hosting multiple small to medium sized websites and maybe some other random stuff?
    Any tips on optimising performance?


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  • #2
    swampgas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,640 ✭✭✭swampgas


    Mike Literous wrote: »
    My first time setting up my own server but I have read up on it. Yet I still have a few opinion-y questions that I'd like answered.
    Would I be better getting Windows Home Server?
    How much RAM should I consider for hosting multiple small to medium sized websites and maybe some other random stuff?
    Any tips on optimising performance?

    Those are big, open-ended questions. The answer to all those questions is ... it depends.

    It depends on what your current skill set is.
    It depends on what your budget is, in money and time.
    It depends on what you want your server to do.
    It depends on what these multiple web-sites are supposed to do.

    Maybe start by putting together some sort of specification for exactly what you want your server to do, and work from there.


  • #3
    pizzahead77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭pizzahead77


    Mike Literous wrote: »
    My first time setting up my own server but I have read up on it. Yet I still have a few opinion-y questions that I'd like answered.
    Would I be better getting Windows Home Server?
    How much RAM should I consider for hosting multiple small to medium sized websites and maybe some other random stuff?
    Any tips on optimising performance?

    Slightly off topic but do you have a business or residential broadband connection?

    You do realise that running websites on a residential broadband coonection will more than likely be against your ISP's T & C?


  • #4
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,946 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    hosting is stupid cheap, honestly just put your websites on hosting. By all mean messa round and run apache on the media PC if you want, but if you want it to be any way decent, you are going to get quicker results with a hosted service.

    2GB RAM is a good target to go for. Is this going to be a media server, playback client or both?


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