Last year whenever people asked me what to use when building a home server, I'd tell them to use Linux or FreeBSD because there was absolutely nothing from Microsoft under a few hundred dollars. There ...

No Pi, no mini PC, no problem.

Ever since the announcement of the Raspberry Pi, sites all across the Internet have offered lots of interesting and challenging uses for this exciting device. Although all of those ideas are great, ...

I am considered emptying my parts closet and creating a home file server, with the main goal being using it to conduct my daily incremental backups to, store all of the family photos/videos in a ...

I decided to create this thread, because it's really hard to find good software in this category. I've got headless Linux (debian) server. Right now I use DAR with a lot of homemade scripts. It's not ...

If you haven’t already launched a Linux server in the cloud, this might be the perfect time. Why? because you can set one up in a matter of minutes because you have lots of choices on what ...

A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances ...