servers
Productivity

Turn An Old Computer Into A Do-Anything Home Server With FreeNAS 8

You’ve heard the word “server” thrown around a lot, but it’s usually in the context of websites or big companies that have a lot of data to store. In reality, a server can be just as useful in your home. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to create your own home server out of an old or cheap computer that can do all your downloading, streaming and backup tasks 24/7.

10 May 2013

Productivity

Start A Simple Web Server From Any Directory On Your Mac

Mac: You need only one tiny command to start a web server from any directory through OS X’s terminal. If you’ve got a website lying around and need to test it out, this is possibly the fastest way to make that happen.

6 May 2013

4 April 2013

Deployment

Does 99.999% Uptime Really Matter?

It’s the gold standard of service-level agreements (SLAs): something being available 99.999 per cent of the time (or ‘five nines’, as those in the trade often call it). But does it really mean anything?

28 January 2013

World Of Servers

Samba 4.0: What Happens Next?

After almost seven years in development, Samba 4.0 was officially released in late 2012, adding Active Directory domain controller features to the popular interoperable file server solution. So what happens now?

World Of Servers

Why We Use Multiple Hypervisors

Choice of hypervisor is often presented in terms of a religious war, with a dominant faith (VMware) constantly doing battle with a range of rivals (Hyper-V, XenServer, Oracle and others). Yet the reality is more complex: many organisations will run more than one hypervisor simultaneously.

22 January 2013

World Of Servers

World Of Servers: Scouring The Globe For The Best IT Insights

When we announced Lifehacker’s revamp yesterday, I mentioned that one of the aspects that we were very excited about for our new IT Pro channel was our World Of Servers project. But what does that actually involve? Here’s the scoop.

17 December 2012

Productivity

Five Best NAS Enclosures

There are plenty of NAS (network-attached storage) enclosures which you can load with hard drives to create effective centralised storage for your home network. All promise to keep your data accessible and backed up for redundancy on multiple drives, but which ones do the best job? Here are five top picks based on your nominations.

13 December 2012

Home

Make A Raspberry Pi Solar-Powered FTP Server

There are lots of great Raspberry Pi projects you can make. Add to the growing list using the small computer as an FTP server — a solar-powered one, no less.

6 December 2012

Cloud

Shifting To Blades And Skinless Servers

Standard servers have increasingly given way to blades in data centre environments. Is a shift to skinless servers the next stage? Not quite, according to Gartner, but collectively blades and skinless systems will play an increasingly important role.

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