If you're thinking about building your own home server based on Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Home Server, then you may want some pointers as to the best hardware to use. Here I'm going ...

What if you could take control of your AI ambitions, bypass the sky-high costs of pre-built systems, and create a solution tailored to your exact needs? Building your own AI server isn’t just a ...

Would you pay $3,600 a year just to store your files? That’s the price Google quoted for 20TB of cloud storage, an eye-watering sum that forces you to question the value of convenience. For many, the ...

A media server is good for office morale. By offering CD-quality sound and a wide range of other uses, your MP3 server can be the answer to workplace "ear pollution" brought about by canned music, ...

There may be little that’s new about using Jumpstart to install Sun servers, but setting up a new jumpstart server is something that I do rarely enough that I want to make the process simpler and more ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Reliability is important, the server is 24/7, and the case I chose has a built-in dust filter that I'll probably clean out once a month or so. If it goes near the HVAC, the wall-off part of this ...

My company uses a couple of monitoring tools (Solarwinds IP Monitor and Argent's monitoring products), but I personally don't like these products. Not because they're bad, but because its all geared ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...