I do look forward to see a more detailed report for our usage. However, it would be about the time for integration rather than keeping buying new hardware.
Honestly speaking, I have bought too many already. My ATOM D525 has not yet been fully functional. I have made numerous tweaks and modifications to the existing one in particular failover. It has been more than enough for our usage. The hurdle for home user I can say is how to integrate, stability of the network and also security concern.
To me, the mail server helps to forward voicemail out. Normal emails go through public server i.e. not high traffic
Apache for remote access of the system e.g. asterisk GUI, webmin for SSH, webmail client
Not a media server
Not a BT server
As asterisk server, fairly stable with good quality. Moreover, I add the fax service to the server so that it interacts with apache and asterisk
File server I believe it is a must together with Apache, allowing remote access (hard disk 咁大容量,又唔係咁貴)
Overall, resources are ok and CPU utilization is not that high even with a ATOM 330. When I can migrate my server to D525 successfully, I will have more power to handle the web and asterisks connection.
High loading occurred when I compiled the switchfin firmware
The problems I encounter now are
玩得太多嘢,所以有時都唔知改咗物嘢 e..g 試 cmphone, 玩咗好耐,都落唔到 asterisk (自己攞嚟衰!)