A while ago, I wondered about the possibility of a small, commercially marketed server for home use, and it looks like VIA is going to do that. They haven’t made a desktop application for administering it like I had suggested, and it seems to be more intended for internal use, such as file storage.
There are a few hardware manufacturers making home servers for Microsoft’s Windows Home Server product. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/default.mspx
I hear HP makes the best offerings. This is in no way an endorsement of the product(s). I’ve rolled my own home server using Gentoo Linux.
yeah, but I’d never trust windows on my servers… I’ll tolerate it on a desktop machine depending on what I need it for, but my servers are always going to be custom built and set up