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Would You Really Trust Your ISP to Back-Up Your Data?

Online backup is set to go large in the next four years, according to a recent study, and your ISP is sharpening its profit pencil. But who would you trust to look after your data?

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How-To: Listen to Internet Radio with Windows Home Server and SHOUTcast

SHOUTcast is a free application which anbles you to access thousands of internet radion stations from all over the world. Did you know you can set up Windows Home Server to be your own, personal SHOUTcast server, so you can listen to internet radio anywhere in your home? We’ll show you how, thanks to Drashna’s [...]

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Installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server

If you’re interested in running a website from your home server, you may have considered various options, including running PHP. But running PHP with IIS can be fraught with problems - or at least was, until WGS reader, Christopher Courtney, wrote the following guide to installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server. Over to [...]

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Great Set of How To Guides Over at MyHomeServer.com

Eric over at myhomeserver.com has written a great suite of tutorials for extending the use of your home server, including setting up a printer to allow you to print over the internet, setting a static IP adress for your home server, and upgrading the RAM in a HP MediaSmart Server (a task I’m increasingly thinking [...]

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How to… Create a Website on Windows Home Server

Andrew Grant’s written an excellent “How To” guide on using his Whiist add-in to create a website, hosted on your Windows Home Server, that friends and family around the world can access remotely. The guide is a great introduction to Whiist and discusses some of the options in Whiist, the files that compose your website, and [...]

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Security Certification Solution on the Way?

If you have attempted to access your home server remotely from a computer that hasn’t had the WHS Connector software installed (your work PC for example) then you will have encountered a warning page in your browser stating that there’s a problem with your website’s security certificate. Phillip Churchill has more details and a potential [...]

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