Being new to this board, I just came across this thread, but if it's not too old I'd like to add my thoughts here from the perspective of a retired network engineer. First for data cabling, the two choices are cat 5 and cat 6, cat 6 will give you reliable GB speeds, but is quite a bit costlier than ...

Howdy, Still in the build process of my server, running Ubuntu server 14.04. My hardware is an older Dell desktop that I got at a garage sale for $5 (US), it has 4G of RAM, an Intel core 2 quad processor. There was no hard drive when I got it but with a 500GB drive laying around that problem was qui...