In mid August both my development PC and the home server made suicide, and terminated its operation. Yes I know that I am running on old and outdated hardware, and it's been long overdue to replace most of it, but I haven’t had the finances to do it.
Luckily my NAS server is still alive so nothing was lost, but I haven’t been able to get much done.
I am still working on the house, building a new bathroom, two rooms for the children, and a new office room for me. This phase 1 should be done within the new 2-3 weeks, and we will wait until spring 09 before starting with phase 2, which is another bathroom, the entrance, and a new kitchen. This leaves a few months for DotNetNuke development, - which I am looking very much forward to.
Another issue for me was the missing source control server, which was running on the DELL server that died almost a year ago. As the new dotnetnuke.dk site is operated on a web hotel, I needed a new place to host the source server. I decided to host it myself at home, with both 1st level backup to the local NAS server, and second level backup to a virtual drive on the internet.
To host a server at home, I needed a machine that was using as little power as possible, because it good for the environment, and because 1 kW/h in Denmark cost 0.25€ (0.30$).
So I bought a white ASUS Eee Box with 1 GB ram and 160 GB hard disk, and with Windows XP installed. This is a perfect little Subversion server, because it’s cheap, quiet, and only uses 17 W when running. Theoretically it is able to run for over 3 days on the UPS.
Next step is to build a new developer machine, but that will have to wait a few weeks.