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Currently more and more families subscribe broadband internet services,
either Cable or DSL. In general, every family has more
than one computers. To share hardware and software resources
at home, such
as hard drive, photos, music, software and so on, a
dedicated computer as a file and/or web srver has to run all the time, at least
during the day time. More people are willing to have
their own private web server running within their LANs.
The problem is that a dedicated computer is not a power-
and cost-efficient solution. How can we obtain a more
reasonable solution of a file and/or web server at
home? A smart and practical solution of absolutely cost-efficient, power
saving and private file and/or web server is provided
by us for all home networks.
Linksys has a product called Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives
(NSLU2). This device has two USB ports that you can
plug external hard drives or flash drives. It provides
a basic platform to create a cost-efficient and power-saving
file and/or web server. The second component we need is a flash drive
with 1 GB or more storage capacity. The third component
is a customized firmware that allows us to install and
configure software in a NSLU2 device. In the public domain,
a user community called nslu2-linux-org
makes enormous efforts to develop alternative
firmware for NSLU2 devices. Unfortunately, a large group of
people are not familiar with linux and do not have experience
to flash NSLU2 devices with the newly developed
UNSLUG
firmware.
We dedicate our effects to put
the three components together and customize the whole
system further to make it a perfect home file/web server.
The cutomized system use FTP to transfer and manage
all files on the web server. In addition, usage of the
web server is summarized daily by Webalizer application. By browsing
these daily updated web pages you can
easily monitor how your web server is used. If you like,
you can make your web server available in the Internet
by configuring your router properly. We also can provide
suggestions about the router configuration. As a plus,
you still can plug another external hard drive to the
device and share it in your home network. We provides
the customized device with a detailed user manual.
Our web server you use now is built on this customized device (NSLU2
+ 1GB flash + Unslung firmware). You can evaluate its
efficiency and speed. Please notice the speed might be limited by the broadband speed.
Until recently, the NSLU2 user community have made enormous progresses in customizing the litle gadget. Now we can install Debian Linux system
in NSLU2. Once an NSLU2 is installed a Debian linux system, you can use the device as a full linux computer. There are thousands of software
packages available. You can install whatever you want. We have upgraded our system to Debian linux system. It performs very well. To configure a
file/web srver, you need exactly same hardware components as an Unslung system does. The installation procedure is much harder than the Unslung system.
Please refer to http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/ to get detail information. We also provide
customized NSLU2 system with Debian installed.
If you are interesting to get one of these customized system, please contact us at sales@sunfinedata.com. We will provide detail information
aobut price and components (such as NSLU2 and flash drive) and shipping and handling.
In addition, we collected several software tools that are very useful. When you run any of our customized system, you definitely need them. Click here to download them.
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