Ultimate home support system

December 11, 2007 by phillip.

When I last blogged about the Ultimate USB drive toolkit I mentioned that I would go further into why you’d need WinSCP.

Let’s start with a word that all techy types should know well: Server. If you don’t have one at home then you should think about it. I have a couple. Media servers for the TV’s, FTP, SSH, mail, video streaming, DNS, DHCP, etc. (A lot of acronyms there but I’ll get into them). Think of a server just like a waiter. You request something and it gives it to you. However, to really visualize it you have to think about having multiple waitors and they only serve one thing and do it well. Like sitting at your table and you request water and a waitor brings water. You flag down a different waitor for main dishes and he delivers that.

So, how does all this server stuff help you when you’re at a client’s house? That’s the cool part. I can get to my tools from
anywhere in the world that has an internet connection. You just need 2 basic services. HTTP (web server) and FTP (file transfer). You can do these with Windows or Mac but I’d suggest getting an old useless computer that has a network card and installing Linux on it. Almost all come with Apache for a http server and whatever ftp software you can select with your Linux distribution. Read the rest of this entry »

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