Build your own home media server. I have a Mac mini attached to a TV, running Plex. So, I want a storage system that can also serve as a centralized media server. The author's homemade.
- Setting Up Windows Home Server Once you've build your server, it's time to get Windows Home Server installed. Without this OS, there's really nothing different between the server and any desktop PC. In fact, that's why you can easily repurpose an old desktop as a home server just by installing WHS.
- How To Build a Home Server Using FreeNAS By Will Smith on March 4, 2015 at 8:53 a.m. I've been running servers in my home for about a decade. After fooling around with underpowered machines, I'm ready to build a bigger server for my house.
- Windows Home Server makes light work of sharing files, streaming media and performing automatic backups from multiple PCs. We'll show you how to build your own home server by recycling an old PC.
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This course is for anyone that wants to learn the fundamentals of having a home server. The course is geared for the Mac OS X Client computer (…and, client means any computer running the Mac OS X operating system) but you probably can use many sections of this course for Windows and Linux. All software mentioned on this course is open source and available both for Windows and Linux.
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I will try my best to not overwhelming you initially with tons of information. At the course ends, we will advance towards extra technical topics.
Some of you might ask the question?
How To Build A Server For Your Home
Why should I have my server and hold the responsibility of maintaining if I can have a Cloud Server and just run my enterprise from there?