I have been thinking about using a MacMini as a media / web server. I wonder if there might be some long-term financial benefit to running the server at home, with higher levels of RAM. Rather than paying an annual cost for a hosted solution.

There are several articles which have been interesting on the matter.

• Buying my own mac and then hosting it somewhere: http://www.macminicolo.net/macmini.html
• Home Media server: http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/22/how-to-setup-a-mac-mini-as-a-media-center-server-and-remote-torrents-box/
• Its not a new idea: http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/25/how-to-turn-your-mac-mini-into-a-media-center/