Over the next 6 weeks, we'll be doing a series of posts on setting up a home server. The goal of this server is to be multi-purpose, reliable, and (most importantly) low budget. We will be covering each the following topics:
- Selecting & Building the Hardware
- Installing the OS
- Samba File Sharing
- Apache2 Web Server
- Subversion Version Control
- Hamachi
This week we will be building the hardware system for our server. For a low power system, or for an especially tight budget, you could reuse an old PC. However, we will be building one from scratch, with these specs:
- 3.0GHz Pentium 4
- 2x 1GB DDR2 Ram
- Optical Drive (for installing software)
- 2x 500GB Hard Drives
- Supported Motherboard
- RAID card (optional)
It is generally possible to build or buy a system with these specs for $300-$400, depending on where you shop. When selecting a motherboard, remember to look for on board graphics, number of SATA ports, number of expansion slots, and number of IDE ports. Depending on your needs, between 2 and 4 SATA ports is probably enough. If you end up needing to add more Hard Drives in the future, you can purchase a SATA controller that fits in the PCI-e slot.
That's it for this week. Coming up next Monday, we'll install Ubuntu 8.10 Server on our newly built hardware.
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