{"id":56,"date":"2010-09-26T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.70.228.191\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/amahi-home-server-plug-edition\/"},"modified":"2010-09-26T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T15:50:00","slug":"amahi-home-server-plug-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/amahi-home-server-plug-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Amahi Home Server Plug Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $99 Sheevaplug, a USB hard drive, and some free software equals an easy to use and VERY LOW POWER home server. What I&#8217;m talking about is the Amahi Linux Home Server, or what Amahi calls a HDA, for &#8220;Home Digital Assistant.&#8221;  Each HDA delivers all the functionality you would want in a home  server, while being as easy to manage from your web browser.<\/p>\n<p>The Amahi HDA advertises a wide range of features including: <\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Share your photos (or any files) with any device in your network<\/li>\n<li>Centrally store all your music and videos<\/li>\n<li>Quickly backup your computers<\/li>\n<li>Run applications to co-ordinate your household (e.g. shared calendars)<\/li>\n<li>Securely access all your &#8216;stuff&#8217; when you are out, whether at work, a friend&#8217;s place, or out of town!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The setup was quick and painless. I reformatted a 750GB USB drive I had been using on my WDTV Live media player and configured one large boot partition and a 2GB swap partition. Using a simple install script, I copied the latest rootfs image to the drive, changed my Sheevaplug to boot from the USB, and just booted into Amahi. I installed the code I received when I setup my Amahi profile and I was up and running.<\/p>\n<p>The Amahi HDA is already configured with and&nbsp; running the NAS software so my next step was little more than copying my media onto the server. I intend to try more of the other home server features and I will post my experiences. Is this a free competitor to Window Home Server? We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $99 Sheevaplug, a USB hard drive, and some free software equals an easy to use and VERY LOW POWER home server. What I&#8217;m talking about is the Amahi Linux Home Server, or what Amahi calls a HDA, for &#8220;Home Digital Assistant.&#8221; Each HDA delivers all the functionality you would want in a home server, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snowleopard.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}