Lights Out
Posted by Simon Salvin on 18. Apr 2010 on Geeks & Gadgets, PC, TechnologyWe’ve been building and selling home servers since the launch of Windows Home Server back in November of 2007. We’ve reduced the size of the unit to a small cube and will some launch our budget range of home servers (look out for news of that coming soon). With a home server running constantly we’ve also reduced power consumption with energy efficient Atom processors and low noise low power PSU’s (Power Supply Unit).
I recently purchased a software plugin for the Windows Home Server platform called Lights Out, the software uses a calendar function to hibernate the server and wake it when needed with a small application on the PC to wake the server if required out of the calendar schedule. With a lot of reading the manual and tweeking I’mextremely happy with the plugin and will be adding it as a standard feature on all new Home Server builds. This makes at least a 60% energy saving which is good for your pocket and the environment.
If you already own a Simple Cube Home Server and would like to try Lights Out then please contact me for more info.
You can find out more about lights out from: http://www.wegotserved.com/2008/12/28/add-in-review-lights-out/
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