My first server is still in use, see my signature. It runs Windows XP PRO and I do not change it, since I paid 90 Euros for the OEM CD and XP is still a nice system. I use it mainly as a file server first in Belgium and later here in the Dominican Republic. In the time I still worked in Brussels, I could access the server in Santiago from Belgium using the P2P Virtual Network Hamachi, that works for Linux and Windows.
The system also runs the network monitoring software "The Dude", which allows me to see the service and the load of each PC and each link. There is even some monitoring of my phones, if they connect to the wifi.
I control the server through RDP.
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