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So....could this be used as a web server?

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Anandtech's article on CES showed a new product that caught my eye:

D-Link's 'Central Home Drive' - an external hard drive with a network connection. You can just plug it into a router and every PC on your network sees another drive.

Now, what's interesting is that you can 'administer' it through a 'web-based interface'.

So....it obviously has some kind of web server built in.....

Hmmmm.....

Ya think?

How hard would it be to replace the HTML file it serves with your own?

Pocket-portable web servers?

Damn, that would be cool....
 
That's kinda cool, but I'm looking for something more practical.

I'm selling off my wife's PC (current webserver), and don't want to put the webserver on mine. I have a router. A device that could connect a fairly small HDD to my router and make it act as a webserver or FTP server (depending on mood....or, err, port) would be really, really cool.

That Anand article was the first indication something like so might exist - your link is even more interesting.

Anything out there like what I'm looking for?
 
yeah, I see what you mean. And old cheap and nasty p100 is more than powerful enough for just serving simple html, I haven't seen anything like what you describe..

You could always go with a webhosting provider, but that might be overkill..
 
Yeah, I really don't host much on my website. Just the occasional picture for an auction. I mean, I DO have a full site, but if I have more than 1 visitor a week it's something. Hardly worth buying a web hosting account for.

I dunno - maybe that D-Link thingy can do what I'm looking for. Have to read up on it more. Too bad the hard drive is built in - that'll drive the cost up more than it needs to be (and I have a bunch of 2gb drives laying around - more than enough for this purpose).
 
Look on ebay for a Sun (form. Cobalt) RaQ2 for about half of what those Dlink things go for, or a RaQ3 for about the same price. The RaQ were designed and built to serve websites, not act as a personal NAS box.
 
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