In this video, I'll show you how to set up a fully functional home server without spending a dime, utilising free software and repurposed hardware. We'll look at creating a server on a budget, turning old computers into valuable assets for your home network. Got old gear, have friends, family or work willing to part ways with old gear? That's all you need to get started.

Now...the older and slower the computer is, the slower it'll perform, especially if you want to run server software. The best approach is always to get an actual computer that has server grade parts....but finding these for free can be tricky...but not impossible!

What this video covered -
- what is a server
- using old computers, asking friends family, or asking work if they have old gear
- getting online and installing server software, virtualisation, linux, windows server?
- and give you some ideas on what you can build.

Software you can use -
Hypervisors
- Proxmox hypervisor available here - https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads
- VMware ESXi can be downloaded for a 60-day evaluation here - https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en...
- Citrix Hypervisor can be found here - https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citr...

Cloud Setup
- AWS Free Tier - https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free...
- Microsoft Azure free services - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pri...

Server OS
- Windows Server 2022 available here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalc...
- Linux Centos is here - https://www.centos.org/download/
- Linux Ubuntu is here - https://ubuntu.com/download/server
- Kali Linux is here - https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-p...

TIMESTAMPS
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0:37 What is a Server
1:34 Do You Have Old Gear?
2:26 The Computer Specs
3:21 Getting Online
4:00 Virtulisation Software
4:55 Open Source / Linux
5:51 CLI vs GUI
6:54 Hypervisors
9:12 Using the Cloud?
11:08 What you can build

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