Older equipment can be used as a server. Your stuff looks good.
A domain will cost about $10 per year.
Le's review this. You want to have your own server located in your house you want to get into it from other places while traveling. Is that tight? How much data? 10 GB? Or maybe vc20? Most people seldom have more that 40 GB of personal data.
Noways many people use a "cloud" service for remote data. I have two I got for free. I also have two domains I use separately where I could store a large amount of data. But one thing I have never tried. I have never tried to build my own server.
Do you want you to make your own server for:
- better privacy?
- unlimited storage ?
- lower costs?
- as a hobby project?
The above could all fit your needs. But be aware about the downside of have your own DIY home service.
The capital cost is high, unless you already have the hardware.
Leaving it on 24/7 without somebody in the house may present a fire hazard.
If you want it to have high speed transfers, you will have to rent special connection. Most Internet connections are asymmetrical. The speed is faster in one direction.
Having somebody else do all the work would coast about $50 per month, but with limited storage.
There are a number of articles about how to build your own home server.
Build an Awesome $500 Windows Home ServerPower turned out to be the big differentiating factor on our Home Servers. While the dual-core Intel machine drew a meager 49W at idle and 70W under load, the quad-core Athlon was a juice guzzler in comparison--pulling 71W at idle and 90W under load. While it's true that it's a little unfair to compare power use between a dual-core and quad core, the performance (in video transcoding and network transfers) and price are close enough that we're comfortable making the comparison. And, the fact that the Intel machine was fast enough to do what we wanted while pulling less power was enough to make it the winner of our Windows Home Server test.
Does that help?
