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The attraction of a home server, such as Windows Home Server, is obvious for any household with several computers. But even if you have just one PC, the technology offers significant benefits — such ...

I understand the excitement of building your first home server, but the effort needed to clean up easily avoidable mistakes can turn the experience into a nightmare. In my case, I had misconfigured my ...

I'm tired of looking at the cluster of servers in my basement that basically old beat-up computer cases so I'd like to move to a nice server rack setup. This is only for home use, but I'm hoping to ...

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So I've got an older box with a bunch of drives in it that's got a old Linux distro I don't remember the name of which is no longer maintained on it. I want to turn it into a server that can function ...

In one hour, you can set up your own Linux server on Amazon's cloud. No kidding. It really is that easy. Here's how. There are all kinds of Linux servers. The most complicated of these require you to ...