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 you want. You don't even need a ...

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 ...

If you need a quick web server running and you don't want to mess with setting up apache or something similar, then Python can help. Python comes with a simple builtin HTTP server. With the help of ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's no reason why a Plex server has to be the usual unassuming box in the corner of the lounge. Chris Marsh wanted his one to wow people on their way through the front door, and it has an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...