I love this piece of hardware; I want to put one in every room in the house, and make them all replicate data backwards and forwards to each other. I want to wave them in people's faces when they visit my house, and hop up and down with glee until they understand just how very bloody clever I think Bubba is.
I had a genuinely heavy heart as I packed Bubba away in his little box, ready to send it back to Excito. It's such a stunningly efficient piece of hardware that every home should have one (no, really, every home should have one - you need to be backing your files up onto something). Now I just need to figure out how to raise the cash to get one of my own.
The Bubba Mini Server is available online from Excito and, just in case you hadn't guessed, is highly recommended.
Article comments
1 - Mark
Much cheaper to purchase a small $100 computer and install your own Linux.
2 - copyrightlaw
Good review. I myself would probably install something like BackupPC on that machine (since it uses Debian) as well.
3 - Daniel Woolstencroft
Mark - cheaper in the short term, possibly. But I doubt you'd get a small $100 computer that runs at 10w power consumption? If you had something in mind, I'd love to hear about it!
copyrightlaw - thanks for the link, I'll have a look at that.
4 - whaxiac
Whax is another of the 310 LiveCDroms and I move through them with ease, for the children's computers, and at schools and businesses.
Favorite distros right now, for complete fulfillment with 5500 free programs and games, are PCLinuxos.com and Mepis
Virus free, immune to the "114,000 Microsoft Virus Definitions", and devoid of the "Convicted Felon Microsoft Trusted Partner" protection racket, they can run in the CDrom, or load in about 20 minutes.
5 - M.N
Is a nice box but that is not all. To make it reliable a UPS is necessary and what about when the ISP crushes? Home Web server is not such a good ideea
6 - tazzz
Thats why you have 2 isps, a fast cable, and cheap slower adsl for ex.
But for a webserver only, it is probably better to have it hosted somewhere ..