Home Assistant is a free and open-source smart home ecosystem with near-limitless potential. Unlike proprietary systems from Apple, Google, and Amazon, Home Assistant lets you build more complex ...

The M4 Mac Mini is a powerful and compact device that can be transformed into a highly capable home server. By setting up your Mac Mini as a server, you can transform the way you manage your digital ...

When Apple announced the server edition of its popular Mac Mini late in October, I was excited that the company was finally offering a low-cost small-business server at a terrific price point ($999; ...

Have you ever looked at an old MacBook gathering dust on a shelf and wondered if it could still serve a purpose? While it might seem like yesterday’s tech, that aging device is far from obsolete. In ...

I've been trying to find a good comparison or using the Drobo 5N vs 5D + Mac Mini Server (I already have said server) as a local time machine repository for our home machines (mainly Airs, but I have ...

Back when Tiger patrolled the Mac universe, I wrote about installing Nagios 2.X on Mac OS X 10.4 Server. Nagios is an open-source application that is really more of a network monitoring framework. It ...

One way to make use of a spare Mac is to turn it into a server for home entertainment purposes. Here's how to set up Plex Media Server in macOS. Owners of an old Intel-based Mac who've replaced it ...