I recently completed a server hardware refresh in my environment and made the decision to switch to rack mount hardware. Even though I am no stranger to rack mount hardware, I have never run rack ...

I have one standard rack appliance in my home: a Unifi Dream Machine Pro. It is mounted horizontally in a coat closet, putting it close to my home's fiber input and also incidentally keeping our ...

Rack-mount servers pose a few unique benefits to traditional desktops. For starters, they often have two CPU sockets, and ...

Have an old PC lying around that no one is using? You might want to consider converting it into a media streaming server. There was a time when people had separate devices for everything. The TV was ...

How do you handle getting Cat 5E (or I guess Cat 6) from your servers to the core switch? Just straight cable runs in the ceiling/under the floor? Patch panels? Or something else? Basically I want to ...