Home Servers – The future of the networked world
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Home Servers – The future of the networked world
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#2People are already working on this:
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#3People are already working on this: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
Slow to no progress. The obstacle will be what it has always been. The masses choose the path of least resistance.
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#4I like the idea but it seems like it works better in theory. Unless someone can really streamline the entire process (sharing, security, hardware upgrading etc) it seems ambitious that millions of people would want that kind of responsibility.
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#5Maybe an intermediate stage, but no, not the future. Humans are lazy of nature, if they can get Facebook to host it for them (for free), why bother to buy such device and plug it in? Even if it didn’t need any setup except setting a password to manage it or so, I don’t see why anyone would do it when there are better alternatives. The internet speed vs LAN speed issue will disappear over time.
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#6my home connection isn't quite comparable to google's; I think this holds for most other americans, too.
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#7Maybe an intermediate stage, but no, not the future. Humans are lazy of nature, if they can get Facebook to host it for them (for free), why bother to buy such device and plug it in? Even if it didn’t need any setup except setting a password to manage it or so, I don’t see why anyone would do it when there are better alternatives. The internet speed vs LAN speed issue will disappear over time.
I could see IPv6 pushing this along a little more, but I agree that humans are too lazy to deal with it.
I currently have a home server, but my career is in information technology and my wife is a photographer. In my case, we have the need to have a central place to store all of our files so that they can be backed up regularly. Even being an I.T. guy, it still took me years of thinking about doing this before I ever did it. I love it now that it's in place, but when there are problems with it I'd almost rather just go back to living on the edge and storing files on our various computers than having to deal with the problems.
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#8This is a horrible idea. Why would you take the job of computer security, management and purchase away from a centralized source and leave it up to the everyday laymen to handle. You say this would solve issues of privacy, but in fact would be a much less secure form of network and would likely increase the risk of security and potential data theft.
I'm a System Administrator by trade and would not ever recommend a solution like this. Centralized systems are just easier on the user and much more cost effective.
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#9This is a horrible idea. Why would you take the job of computer security, management and purchase away from a centralized source and leave it up to the everyday laymen to handle. You say this would solve issues of privacy, but in fact would be a much less secure form of network and would likely increase the risk of security and potential data theft. I'm a System Administrator by trade and would not ever recommend a s…
There are numerous applications that currently run on our laptops (e.g., dropbox application) that could potentially steal all your data. As we trust third party apps to behave themselves on our laptops, so can we trust the apps installed on the homeservers. With sandboxing now coming to desktop apps (e.g., thru Mac App Store), this problem will reduce even further.
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#10I like the idea but it seems like it works better in theory. Unless someone can really streamline the entire process (sharing, security, hardware upgrading etc) it seems ambitious that millions of people would want that kind of responsibility.
I want to work on this idea to make it into a company. I am kinda soliciting ideas from people to learn more. I think the this product will be useful precisely when all the issues you mentioned will be streamlined. A simple web based UI to the homeserver can allow for installing apps, removing them, setting up passwords, uploading data and consuming data from within the house network.