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The need for home servers

The need for home servers, and what functions it needs to perform.

A way to look at a home is as it being a thing on the mobile internet. Just like a mobile phone.

What if you have an off grid (for electricity) home and the internet is down? And how to shield the home from unwanted data outflow from the home?

I can see the need for a new kind of Network Attached Storage (NAS) what covers these scenarios. To cover these scenarios, you need a NAS with additional functionalities:

  • In-home SSL
  • Cloud mirroring
  • Intrusion detection

In-home SSL

In house network security should be no different from the field data security. The current Root Certificate system (RCS) was never designed to cover this scenario. Another (outside the scope of this item) weakness of the current RCS, is that it is DNS dependent.

Cloud mirroring

Most users are using (also business users) their mobile phone as their primary data communication device and User Interface (UI). And to be global portable they use a Cloud service like DropBox, iCloud, GDrive, MSOneDrive, etc ... 

Synology offers such a service called CloudSync. It only does not support iCloud. A major absence.

Intrusion detection

When an intrusion detection is combined with a firewall function, the house (office) network environment could be much more save. What data is going outside the home, and is that a trusted (white list) data receiver?

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