Building a DIY NAS is the cheap option to get setup with a home server, here's how I did it and everything you need to know to get started.

We've shown you some other great uses for an old PC, like using FreeNAS 8 to build a home NAS or using Ubuntu to build a fully-featured home server, and Amahi takes a similar approach.

Turnkey templates and LXCs are your best friends Let’s say you’re only interested in the file-sharing aspect of a NAS server and aren’t all that concerned about backing up your data.