As a way to learn a little more about servers and all that fun stuff, I decided I would set up a home server. I got a free server with 2008 r2 on it from work, it has been sitting for 6 months and was just collecting dust.
Maybe I am completely stupid, if so please tell me. My plan is to set this up as off site storage for my entire family. It has two 1tb drives in raid 1 right now, so that should be enough room at first. I really have no idea what I am doing. I would like to somehow set it up so that my grandparents and parents computers will automatically sync certain folders/files once a day (or whatever) and so that I can also use it for a media storage/streaming server.
First off, is this even worth trying?
Second, I signed up for freedns.afraid and got all the info loaded into my router. Now I am stuck. Anybody wanna help?