Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Secure comprehensive home network £350 - Want one?


All GPL software. So free to use. Not monopolised by any corporation. Continuously improving for the benefit of the global community. (Unlike Apple and Microsoft)

Server: 1Tb Vortexbox Appliance Linux distribution, fully incremental rsnapshot backup, SAMBA file server, Squeezebox media centre, MySQL database, Apache web server

Router: Buffalo WHR-HP-G54, flashed with DD-WRT

Modem: Netgear DG834GT, bridged mode

Backup drive: Western Digital Elements 1Tb. Rsynced to  remote server at Mum's house over OpenVPN anti-CIA secure link. So full disaster recovery.  Both our houses would have to burn down to lose any data.

Only draws 46 watts too.

2 comments:

matslats said...

Are you assembing these Robin? This is valuable work.
I would like to see kits that provide wifi and a VOIP to a whole village

Robin Smith said...

Yes. But this is the only one so far. (:

That is a great idea of yours. Do you have a channel to market?

I'd be happy to do the "services work" if you point me in the right direction. First one foc.