I'm building a home media server. It will serve movies, music, etc, and also act as a web server for just my personal use. Is there really a need to get a $$ server motherboard for it? I got a Tyan ...

I need a recomendation for a distro to use for a home file server.<BR><BR>My home file server's boot disk died the other day. All the date is on other drives so all I lost was the OS. It was running ...

A Raspberry Pi makes an excellent entry point into home server projects. While it won’t replace a full-blown server or NAS in raw power, it’s versatile enough to handle a surprising range of services.

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been testing three new home servers, two from HP and a potential revolutionary concept called a nano-plug server. This last one uses Marvell technology, comes from ...

A high-speed computer in a network that stores the programs and data files shared by users. It acts like a remote disk drive. The difference between a file server and an application server is that the ...

As an IT consultant I work with a lot of small business owners. One thing that continues to surprise me is how many of them don’t use a server. Most of them run their entire business from a handful of ...