I've got a hp microserver but haven't yet set it up. I've never set up a server from scratch before, do you have any advice or guidance or any good tutorials? Good to hear that they're serving you well though
Depends on what you want to achieve with it. I installed Ubuntu Server, threw and configured SAMBA and a small LAMP server on it and not much more. For getting the backups from the production servers I use rdiff-backup and cron. I'm not using RAID at the moment as it suits me better to just have four big drives.
A friend of mine is running the same setup plus a Plex Media Server and some small toys.
My Twitter and HN handle are the same and my email is on my profile if you have any specific question.
Thanks for the info, that's kind of what I want it for - backups, general file storage and possibly a development server. I'll be sure to get in touch if I need some advice, the offer of help is much appreciated.
