Categories
Getting Started
Everything a beginner needs to go from curiosity to a running home server: what a home server is, why you'd want one, how to choose your first hardware and operating system, and how to avoid the most common mistakes.
In this category
What Is a Home Server? A Plain-English Introduction
A beginner-friendly explanation of what a home server is, what you can do with one, and how to decide if you should build one.
The Complete Home Server Beginner's Guide
Go from zero to a running home server: choose hardware, pick an operating system, deploy your first apps, and keep everything secure and backed up.
Self-Hosting Starter Guide: Replace the Cloud
Discover which cloud services you can replace with self-hosted alternatives, and how to get started.
Glossary
Home Server
A computer you run at home to provide services such as file storage, media streaming, backups or self-hosted apps to your devices.
Self-Hosting
Running software on hardware you control instead of relying on third-party cloud services.
Homelab
A personal lab environment at home used to learn, experiment with and run IT infrastructure.