By Philip Churchill on May 27th, 2009
Win KeepVault for WHS – Day 3
It’s day 3 of our KeepVault mega giveaway and we have another 40GB account to give away
Proxure, the makers of KeepVault have just released version 3.0 of the online backup solution for our Home Server’s and to help celebrate the release we are giving away a 40GB account every day through to Thursday, whilst Friday and Saturday there will be a chance to win one 100GB account.
To have a chance of winning today’s 40GB account just leave a comment to this post before midnight tonight (GMT)* explaining the main 2 things that you use Windows Home Server for apart from backing up
*Today’s entry must be in before 23:59 GMT (15:59 Pacific Time) today, 27 May 2009.
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I use my WHS as the endpoint to a VPN and proxy server using FreeProxy as I live in the UK (and pay for a TV licence) but work in Germany, so it is useful to be able to watch streamed TV from the BBC. I also use it as a central area for my family to share information with me, or even scan the day’s post and leave it on the Mail share.
My Home Server is the centre of my home network. I use it to stream all my media to devices within my home and to my laptop when I’m away. I also use it for remote access to my data and sharing photo albums with friends and family. Couldn’t do with out it.
I serve up a large music collection with iTunes installed on the WHS connecting to an Airport Express downstairs hooked up to a receiver wired to speakers throughout the kitchen, dining room and living room, and driven by the Remote app on an iPod Touch. (Whew!) I also store all our families important documents which have been scanned and PDF’d.
I use my Windows Home Server as my Media Server for my PS3 and Tivo, and also as a means of getting access to the machines in my house when I am traveling.
I use my WHS for Media Serving and Document storage.
I used it as a media centre. Run powerDVD to watch blu-ray films. Have xbmc for the rest. It also serves as a media encoder (Handbrake) utilising all that spare CPU time as it’s on 24/7
Centralized storage pool.
Media streaming.
I use WHS for accessing my files everywhere, and stream media using SageTV for WHS.
I use WHS to store downloaded software updates and as my central media server (videos, music and pics).
I use it for central file storage for pictures & videos and for remote access to systems on my home network.
I use WHS to manage and secure all the family pictures with my three beautiful kids. And to stream all my movies and music.
media streaming and central file storage
I use it as a media and itunes server, and definitely to share the 1000s of pictures I take with others.
I use my MSS to stream music and photos and to monitor my home security.
I would say that torrent downloads and FTP are the two things I most use WHS for.
I use WHS for quite a few things. I use it as a way for me to remote desktop to it and my networked PC’s from work or school. When I’m helping friends with their PC issues I frequently log in remotely so that I can pull the necessary diagnostics and/or files off to repair their PC. I also us it in conjunction with SyncToy so that all of my media files stay up today with the changes that I make on the road. I also use it with Dropbox as a way for me to start torrent DL’s remotely. I have set up Utorrent to monitor my Dropbox folder so that it automatically starts downloading. I also use WHS as a way for me to share files with friends by giving them web access to it. In addition, I use WHS to stream all of my media to my PC’s and TV so that all of my media is centrally stored and accessible anywhere. Of course, I use WHS as a way to backup my PC’s. I find it particularly useful with Windows 7: I have been trying a lot of hardware and software configurations that often times causes freezing and/or malfunctions and I like being able to restore back to the most recent stable set up.
I use WHS for a central location to all my data and I also use it for WSUS.
I use WHS for two main things (in addition to backup):
1) Remote access to shared documents
2) Centralized repository of media and documents
Would love to win this…as with the others, need some off-site storage to back up the WHS backup. Backups for the backups…love it!
1. Storing documents so I can work from my desktop or laptop.
2. Streaming music around the house.