Finding a "place" for your home server  may prove difficult...

In the near future I want to write an article or two on how to build a LOW cost powerhouse home server. But before I do that, someone is going to ask, "Why a home server?" (Or why a server at all for that matter?) The answer to this question could go in a LOT of different directions so I figure I will just give you the reasons why I have a server set up at our house. Other can share their own reasons in the comments if they feel so inclined...


Here we go, my Top Four Good Reasons:

1. For School - this probably won't apply to too many of you but I personally am an IT student. I am learning all about this stuff, and by virtue of that it helps if I have at least some of the stuff I am learning about.

2. For Fun - this item will probably catch a wider swathe of my audience. If you came here to hack your WDTV, you probably would have a lot of fun playing with a server. Granted, another piece of technology to...

So, maybe I am a little bit late to the game in talking about this but I just discovered it today. In my humble opinion, getting IIS 7.5 setup (Microsoft's web server software for Windows Server) is a royal pain in the arse! I mean, the initial install is a breeze, don't get me wrong, but anything after that is a bit convoluted... My task, which I thought would be simple, was to install Drupal (a very powerful website CMS - content management system, blogger and wordpress are also examples of CMS's) on my virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. Two days and a whole lot of reading later and I still couldn't get the blasted thing to work!