Turn that dusty old laptop into a quiet, capable home server that can handle media, backups, and self-hosted apps with ease.

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

Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a co-lead of the CNET Tips and We Do the Math series, and manages the Home Tips series, testing out ...

[hackbyte] reminds us about a classic hack that, even though we’ve seen floating around for over a decade, has somehow never quite graced our pages before. Many of us keep small home labs and even, at ...

Have you ever looked at an old, unused laptop gathering dust on a shelf and wondered if it could still serve a purpose? What if that aging device could be transformed into a cost-effective, ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There are literally thousands of Minecraft servers to join right now. Whether you want a friendly community playing the vanilla Minecraft experience, ...

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been testing three new home servers, two from HP and a potential revolutionary concept called a nano-plug server. This last one uses Marvell technology, comes from ...