Considering all the ports, sockets, and slots in server rigs, there’s a lot of cool paraphernalia you can add to your experimentation machine. You’ve got HBA ...

For a while, I kept treating my next home server build like it needed to be a miniature workstation. I looked at Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 chips, priced out motherboards with more PCIe lanes than I needed, ...

I can't count how many times I've needed one small thing from my home server. One document. One VM. One quick Immich pull to grab a photo. The box was in another room, and I kept it powered down ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...