Five Things You Can Do With the New Raspberry Pi. How-To: Set up a home file server using FreeNAS. In today's digital world we've all got data, and lots of it.
Our libraries are also growing rapidly: where you used to get by setting aside a few bookshelves for your books, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes, we now require untold server space to preserve our beloved media in digitized form. We also want our data to be itinerant, or at least seem that way. That is, if you want to take a book or disc to another room of your abode, you pull it from the bookshelf and take it with you. Eight Clever Things You Can Do with Your Underused Personal Domain Name. * VPN server!!!!!
Be safe on any network by tunneling all your traffic to your personal domain/server(s). * VoIP server Use any computer as your personal PBX end-node back to your phone line. WiFi from anywhere in the world should be enough bandwidth. Further, you don't need to pay Vonage $25/month for this $5/month solution. * email/communications server Never worry about what google is doing with your data - this assumes you aren't paying for google apps. ;) Zimbra is free and provides more capabilities than MS-Exchange, though I will admit it is probably overkill for most home users.
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