Introduction
When you think of the word server, you probably first imagine either a massive mainframe hulking behind locked doors in the bowels of some large corporation or a powerful and expensive desktop-like device full of esoteric hardware that helps it—and perhaps a few others like it—run the network of a medium-sized company. The common thread here is that we’ve always thought of servers as business machines. With the exception of a few hardcore geeks and technical writers (not that the two designations are mutually exclusive), having a server in your home seemed, well, excessive. What home needs the power of a server? What home can afford the expense of such a high-end device?
But then a funny thing happened: times changed. All those one-computer ...
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