oldchachie
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I've been going around in my head for a long time as to what I want/need for home servers and security. Here are some of the things I want:
1. A place to store a bunch of files including media, general backups, photos, computer files etc.
2. I run a minecraft server for the kids
3. Serve up to all my home tvs and computers the media stored on the network.
4. I live in Charter cable company, which now requires HD and either a cable card or set top box, so something like a ceton infinitv looks like it is in order to minimize set top boxes
5. I have an ELK M1 system. It pretty much acts on it's own, but any integration I might want to do with it needs to be kept in mind.
6. I plan to toy around with a Raspberry PI and/or Beaglebone Black, and a few Arduinos to improve home automation, particularly with their IO capability
7. Serve my media to my devices via the interwebs and home wireless network. My thought is something like owncloud or PLEX Pass (without the fee). In particular get my audio files into ios devices without having to use iTunes. direct from my server to the device in iTunes.
8. Run a backup server for all of this as well as for my father to backup to.
Keeping it all broken up might suggest I should have:
1. A NAS
2. An Apache/owncloud server
3. An HTPC W/Ceton Infinitv
4. A server to run backups
5. A Minecraft Server.
Seems like a lot of hardware. I'm wondering which of these would "bundle" well. Seems an owncloud server could run on the same machine as the storage (either NAS or a normal windows machine), possibly the Minecraft server on this machine as well. The backup server, I'd kind of like to be in a physically different location to ensure file backups if there is a fire taking out one building, or someone breaks in and steals some stuff but not all, etc. Either way then it seems I should have a separate HTPC. Does anyone have any suggestions or maybe a neat network map of a good similar home network setup?
1. A place to store a bunch of files including media, general backups, photos, computer files etc.
2. I run a minecraft server for the kids
3. Serve up to all my home tvs and computers the media stored on the network.
4. I live in Charter cable company, which now requires HD and either a cable card or set top box, so something like a ceton infinitv looks like it is in order to minimize set top boxes
5. I have an ELK M1 system. It pretty much acts on it's own, but any integration I might want to do with it needs to be kept in mind.
6. I plan to toy around with a Raspberry PI and/or Beaglebone Black, and a few Arduinos to improve home automation, particularly with their IO capability
7. Serve my media to my devices via the interwebs and home wireless network. My thought is something like owncloud or PLEX Pass (without the fee). In particular get my audio files into ios devices without having to use iTunes. direct from my server to the device in iTunes.
8. Run a backup server for all of this as well as for my father to backup to.
Keeping it all broken up might suggest I should have:
1. A NAS
2. An Apache/owncloud server
3. An HTPC W/Ceton Infinitv
4. A server to run backups
5. A Minecraft Server.
Seems like a lot of hardware. I'm wondering which of these would "bundle" well. Seems an owncloud server could run on the same machine as the storage (either NAS or a normal windows machine), possibly the Minecraft server on this machine as well. The backup server, I'd kind of like to be in a physically different location to ensure file backups if there is a fire taking out one building, or someone breaks in and steals some stuff but not all, etc. Either way then it seems I should have a separate HTPC. Does anyone have any suggestions or maybe a neat network map of a good similar home network setup?