Repurposing an old desktop PC for home lab or server use is not only noble, but it's extremely practical as well. The ...

A server is any computer that's been dedicated for use as a storage center for information. Some servers are high-powered, expensive, specialty units, but an ordinary computer can be used as a server, ...

Internet service providers, Web hosts and other email services store messages associated with all email accounts to a computer called a mail server. Email providers have both incoming and outgoing ...

LAN-based game servers are also a popular alternative offering for conventional arcades, and an entire business is springing up around the "PC room" and "LAN arena" concepts. Multiplayer game boxes ...

If you want to convert a physical server to a Hyper-V VM, follow the steps mentioned in this guide. Do keep in mind that this physical server doesn’t have to be a server; it can be any computer, be it ...

Don’t let your computer’s parts off the hook just because they were swapped out in an upgrade; put them back to work! Half of the top-ten most-played games on Steam come with the option to customize ...

Just because you can use a Raspberry Pi as a media server doesn’t mean that you should. I’d say there are better uses for ...