In this digital media age, people have tons of photographs, videos - movies, TV shows (if you are anything like me), and music. But to store them we resort to space on the drives in our computers, some go for external hard drives (hopefully keep multiple copies of them across different drives to safe losing them if a drives fail - yes that happens!). Now accessing these files when touring or from outside home/work or on a trip can be a hassle with setting up dns, web-server, etc. for non-tech pros.
I found a simple and quick solution for this problem - a network-attached server. There is plenty of network-attached servers out there now for household use such as Synology (I just bought one!), ReadyNAS by Netgear, QNAP, Buffalo, etc.. Don't forget when purchasing drives make sure you get a NAS drive, and yes there is a difference - the typical drives are not meant for 24/7 usage whereas NAS drives are meant to be abused for 24/7.
Now if you have a Synology NAS with the drives, here is the setup instructions for creating a folder to store and share files and here is the setup instructions for making your server accessible from the Internet. Make sure you have your firewalls up!
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