See What Our Users Are Saying!

Just got done installing this awesome piece of software. After trying a couple other options to do what i wanted my server to do ... I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!!!!

Install was a snap. Setup has been just as easy. One click and uShare was working perfectly. After the time spent with other NAS-type distros getting this ONE piece of software working properly, I was surprised and pleased that Amahi works "out-of-the-box". Keep it up guys this stuff ROX!

I was looking for a replacement for Windows Home Server [..]. My home server forms the backbone of my network and as I am a freelance cameraman, video editor and photographer, I make high demands on reliability, usability and performance. WHS never cut it for me and the Drobo, which served me well for the past year, has a shockingly lacking performance.

Enter the Amahi Home Server – a free, Open Source alternative to WHS.

The Amahi team have pooled the best of what the Open Source Software community has to offer and wrapped it up in an easy to install, configure and maintain package. I don’t know why it is available freely as no doubt a lot of time has been invested developing it. It puts other paid efforts to shame in my opinion.

The cornerstone of Amahi Home Server for me is the sleek integration of Greyhole, which is drive pooling and folder duplication all in one. Instead of RAID it forms a very fast, reliable and, moreover, efficient way to keep your data save by copying it (mirroring) across available hard drives, which can be of any size and flavour.

I now have a DHCP, VPN, (redundant) file server, IRC proxy, UPNP media server, and bittorrent client all in one easy to manage package.

Thank you to the Amahi team for providing a well supported, documented and developed solution.

Working with Amahi was a bit tricky at the start, but it was all my own fault, once I got it going it was great. I used to make my own computers with this same sort of setup, it would take me weeks, having to configure individual applications, probably 10-15 applications just to do what I wanted.

When I found Amahi I was amazed, it incorporated almost every function of a home media server that I have had in my house for years, but added features I had not even contemplated.

Overall my experience with Amahi has been superb and I look forward to many years to come, with my only wish being a Ubuntu port of it ... overall I am astounded by the work done by the entire Amahi team.

Congratulations on a great product. And I've only ran it for about a week, but WHAT A WEEK :)

Amahi has made my digital life soooo much easier. Now I don't need to be at home to walk my fiance through the steps of fixing something on the computer, or to show her where a file is. The VPN is great, seeing how I travel a lot for work. I no longer need to use three different tools to gain access to my network, control the computer, or get a file. It's all right there in Amahi.

The streaming servers and the new web streaming app that's in development looks amazing. I have put my entire collection of DVDs on the network and now don't need to get up every time I want to watch something.

Now with the Videos5 app in development I will be able to watch them when away without using extrema amounts of bandwidth.

All in all, Amahi has made my life at home exponentially better, and my time away from, feel like home.

It gives my network way too much functionality!

     - @iCutty

[I would only ask that you] add a dashboard item for mounting new drives!

     - Brett Brunetti, New Hartford, CT, USA

Our thanks to the Amahi team for putting this together.

     - C. Hutch, Dallas, Texas

I was an early adopter of Windows Home Server but wasn't happy with it. It was "delicate". Issues appeared on a daily basis and it didn't "play well" with the non-Microsoft computers in my house.

I've had my Amahi server up and running for a few months now and am very pleased. The thing just hums away quietly in the corner. Setting up user accounts is a no brainer. I use it as a file server, music server, video server and to download torrents.

So far I've accessed it remotely using openvpn from around North America, Europe and Asia. I'm no linux geek but haven't had any significant problems setting it up. Any questions I had were answer promptly by the Amahi team. Kudos on an excellent product.

Its exactly what I was looking for. Highly recommended.

     - Richard, Calgary, Canada

I have been a Windows user all my life and decided to make the plunge to open source software, how freaking refreshing it is! Since that time I have frequented the forums and IRC channel and have found everybody very helpful and eager to help me.

Not being a "tech guy" , the learning curve for both Fredora and Amahi was fairly straight forward and easy. The exciting thing about all of this, though, is if I want to stay simple, I'm done, I don't need to do anything else, but if I want to, I can add to my system in infinite amount of ways to achieve a truly personal home server.

Thanks to all that maintain and move forward this project!

     - GJC in Santa Rosa, California