Streaming video and audio from the Web is now commonplace. Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, Spotify and other services make it simple to watch or listen to what you want when ...

Like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, Salt is an open source server management and automation solution with commercial, officially supported options. Based on command-line-driven server and client services ...

Earlier this year, I looked at a beta release of Windows Home Server and called it a “home run” for Microsoft. This week, Hewlett Packard announced that it would begin taking orders for its new ...

These days, it's more important than ever to tighten up the security on your servers, yet if you were to look at several official hardening guides, they read as though they were written for Red Hat ...

In the wake of Snowden’s now ageing revelations about governmental snooping a wave of ‘ultra-secure’ personal servers hit the market, promising to give you access to all your documents, files and ...

Getting top performance from a storage system and making applications faster and more resilient are two critical and challenging aspects of computing. Unfortunately, many vendors’ solutions focus on ...

Don’t let simple coding prevent you from obtaining full control of the Minecraft game world. We'll walk you through the server setup process, so you can tweak in-game attributes and safeguard your ...

So a new software update at our office is forcing us to switch from a generic file server to an actual server environment with windows server. The first problem I'm running into is that I want all the ...

Hi guys,<BR><BR>I'm trying to find a good free OS to re-setup my file server. So far I've tried several Linux distros (RedHat, Gentoo, Turbo, Debian), a couple BSD's (OpenBSD, FreeBSD), and one odd ...

We are continually surprised at how many moderately experienced computer users and developers don’t know the basic facts about email. Throughout the coming year, we’ll explain a few of the essentials ...