Build Your Own Home Server: Introduction

By M.A. Dockter of PCMechanic

This tutorial will discuss how to set up a server for less than $750.

With this server, you will be able to share your high-speed connection (which from now on, we will refer to as a cable connection or cable modem), run a Quake Server for LAN Games, and, most importantly, be able to develop a Web/Internet/FTP server using mostly free or inexpensive utilities.

The first step in the process, however, is obtaining the basic components.