Home Server

Freedom In a Box

What if you could put something on your shelf that really, truly gave you independence from Google or Facebook or Microsoft? It’s not free and it’s not easy, but it’s not as difficult or expensive as you might think and in this series of tutorials, I want to help you get the peace of mind I have from doing it myself.

Tutorials

The home server series is broken up into small sections that should probably be read in order if you’re new to all of this. If you have some experience building computers or setting up servers, feel free to skip around.

Feb
24

Home Server Part 1 – Home as Command Center

When I first got a job as a software engineer, I was impressed by the racks of computers running software

Feb
24

Home Server Part 2 – Choosing a Computer (1 of 2)

You have four possibilities when it comes to running a home server, listed here in order of increasing complexity and

Feb
24

Home Server Part 3 – Choosing a Computer (2 of 2)

In the last article, we looked at two of the ways you could get a computer ready to run home

Feb
24

Home Server Part 4 – Things Get Interesting

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! We’re about to turn that giant virtual machine file or that computer case

Feb
24

Home Server Part 5 – Setting Up Samba

At this point, you’re ready to start hosting your own services, but to make your life significantly easier I have

Apr
19

Home Server Series Part 6 – Your First Self-Hosted Service

What good is a server that doesn’t have a service? In this post, we’ll look at using Docker to set