Review: Excito Bubba home server - Personal Computer World

The Bubba server is the closest we have seen to a computer that fulfils this dream of sharing files, networking a printer, streaming media, downloading files and Bit Torrents as well as organising emails and acting as a web and ftp server.

This server has had me excited in a way that no hardware has managed for many years. Small, quiet, plenty of storage space and very low power requirements make it everything I’ve wanted from a home server. And it runs Linux. I almost hesitate from saying this too loud because the words server and Linux too close together scare most ordinary users but the Bubba is a triumph of intelligent design. It can be controlled entirely through a well designed web interface so the underlying OS is not such an issue.

Of course, this does not mean that the OS choice is unimportant. Linux reduces the cost and delivers performance way beyond what I would expect from Windows on a similar platform.

Read the review for the full story, I’m off to try and calm down!