Category: News

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HP MediaSmart Server EX470 with FREE Wireless Router and FREE Hard Drive

Courtesy of newegg.com you can get the HP MediaSmart Server EX470 at the reduced price of $539.99 including free 3 business day shipping, saving $20 over their original selling price. Also included in that price is a free wireless router  (not displayed on the checkout page and offer ends 30 April) and a Western Digital […]

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Home Servers In The Digital Age

Home Servers In The Digital Age is a new 14 page PDF document by J.P. Gownder and Forester Research and is full of amazing facts and figures like: Home Servers will fill a critical need in the digital home Home Servers will enter 4.6 million households by 2012 Early Adopters Will Be Found Among The […]

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Media Server on Home Server Batch Scripts

If you are moving your music collection onto your Windows Home Server then their are a couple of batch scripts available that can help you reload the library in read only mode when using Media Server on Home Server. More info is available in this thread.

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HP MediaSmart Server Team Q&A

We Got Served talk to the guys behind HP’s MediaSmart Server and gets answers to some  regularly asked questions like what are the Top 3 support call issues?, why did HP disable Shadow Copies on the MediaSmart Servers? and what can you tell us about the next version of the HP MediaSmart Server? These and […]

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Windows Home Server – Just Build It

“Windows Home Server – Just Build It” is the name of an article on the website Gear Diary. Rob Tripp tells us why he built his own Windows Home Server instead of purchasing a HP’s MediaSmart. One of his final thoughts is “Wow, that was easy…too easy…what did I mess up?” Read his article here.

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Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server Review

PC Pro reviews the Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server and give it a respectful 5 out of 6 stars. They state that the Scaleo Home Server 1900 is a well-conceived, if dear and a little chunky, home server appliance. Read the review here.

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Let your Mac talk to WHS

OK you have all your PC files backed up to Windows Home Server, but you have your poor Mac sitting in the corner patiently waiting to talk with WHS, which off course is not supported. Using the tutorial from the Multimedia-PCs website it is now possible to have your Mac backing up to your Home […]

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LiveNode.Com – Goodbye, Farewell

The German Home Server Blog is reporting that the LiveNode.Com sub domain used by Windows Home Server during it’s beta period has been turned off as announced on the WHS Team Blog. The dynamic DNS service has off course since been replaced by HomeServer.Com since the products final release.

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Network Storage Market Grows

Market analysis firm In-Stat are reporting that the consumer network storage market grew at a faster rate in 2007 compared to 2006, and that it has also more than doubled in the last two years. Although competition in this market has increased with more players, opportunities can be captured, including NAS, SAN, NDAS, and Windows […]

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Build and Deploy an ASP.NET Website on WHS

A great 7 part guide is available showing you how build and deploy an ASP.NET website using the Whiist Add-In on to your Windows Home Server. Read the guide here.