homeserver

[Benjamin Vigneaux]

Ok, perhaps i'm going a little bit of topic with my next question... but I
didn't find a appropiate group to post this question and since everyone here
knows a bit of everything perhaps I could get an answer.

Basically what I need if to build a homeserver, well.. at least, set it up,
cause I have 3 computers that I could clusterize ,even though a friend told
me that clusterizing migh not be the best idea form what i have in mind,
which is hosting a website/blog and file server, and the idea is that these
3 computers share one single harddrive.

Which SO would be appropiate to do this (ok, it's pretty obvious that
windows server would be an obvious suggestion, but i can't afford it right
now) perhaps a linux distro? is clusterizing a good idea for this? or
perhaps set it up as some kind of distributed database?

[Rene]

Re: homeserver

Not sure if this will help you but have you seen the new Windows Home Server
sofware:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx

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Ok, perhaps i'm going a little bit of topic with my next question... but I
didn't find a appropiate group to post this question and since everyone
here
knows a bit of everything perhaps I could get an answer.
>
Basically what I need if to build a homeserver, well.. at least, set it
up,
cause I have 3 computers that I could clusterize ,even though a friend
told
me that clusterizing migh not be the best idea form what i have in mind,
which is hosting a website/blog and file server, and the idea is that
these
3 computers share one single harddrive.
>
Which SO would be appropiate to do this (ok, it's pretty obvious that
windows server would be an obvious suggestion, but i can't afford it right
now) perhaps a linux distro? is clusterizing a good idea for this? or
perhaps set it up as some kind of distributed database?