Run Your Home Business Using OpenSource - part I

Posted by ludwikc
March 12, 2008

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Many of us, webworkers and professional consultants, work form home. Here’s what geeky-webworker have in their workplace (optimal, more-or-less casual point of view) :

  1. Desktop computer
  2. Laptop
  3. Webserver
  4. MediaCenter/AP-Router/HomeBackupServer

Now, in this example I assume that webserver is shared hosting account in some fine company (bought with good promocode) so we don’t need to care about it.

1. Desktop computer

Used to day-to-day work & play. You keep there all your work, invoices, projects, family photos, music, movies, bookmarks - everything.

2. Laptop

Used less frequently, just when you go to conferences, meetings, presentations or lectures. It has to be more secured than your Desktop.

3. Webserver

As long as you don’t live in neighborhood of huge and cheap Data Center and you have shared hosting account - you don’t need to care about it.

4. MediaCenter/ AccessPoint / Router / HomeBackupServer

Here I assume you have one additional machine that will serve you in one (or more) ways to improve your in-house communication. Possible functions such machine can perform can be

Media Center
to keep your multimedia files on it. Movies, music and photos available for everyone in one place - your coworkers or kids.
HomeBackupServer
Your data is sensitive. Your data needs to be well secured. You can’t take the liberty of loosing it. That’s why you need backups. There are many ways to backup or synchronize your data, but in this point I just assume you have special space on your MediaCenter / Router machine to backup your files.
AccessPoint / Router
such function won’t require all your machine capacity, but if you have MediaCenter or HBS set up already - why couldn’t you combine these together and turn your old router off?

That’s what I have. And that’s what I’ll write about in next post: Costs of such solution using Restricted Software. Stay tuned! :)

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