While SBCs can't hold a candle to high-end servers, you can use them as makeshift workstations for your home lab experiments ...

An earlier server OS from Microsoft that was introduced in 2007. Windows Home Server (WHS) was based on Windows Server 2003 with a simplified user interface for casual users. Windows Home Server ...

The same sort of feature creep sneaks into some of the more popular self-hosted home server platforms as well, with things like openHAB requiring so much computing power that they barely function ...

These can prove invaluable for containerizing your apps and services, keeping everything updated, and making it much more convenient to manage more than one app running on your server(s).