Jeni's Musings

I've been through pretty much the same process with my slug - trying to keep it silent when not in use... I've had a lot of success.
I don't believe in disabling the services at night - I'd probably be doing something at just the wrong time at night at some stage and it would stop access! Also seems a bit of a cludge to have a server which is only available some of the time!
I use a seagate external hard disk which spins down after 10 minutes, I was originally going to have the OS on a flash drive but I'm now happy to have it on the external disk - I don't need to worry about wear levelling etc.

I've documented my methods at http://www.peter-woods.co.uk/slug/ - with the hard disk silencing bits at http://www.peter-woods.co.uk/slug/#s8

Hope that can help someone else in the same situation!