Build a Better Home ServerWith Docker

YOU’LL NEED THIS

SERVER HARDWARE

Use whatever spare silicon works for you.

LUBUNTU

Grab it from http://lubuntu.net.

DOCKER COMMUNITY EDITION

You can find out more at www.docker.com.

It doesn’t really matter what you intend to use it for. Whether you’re throwing media around, performing backups, running game servers, or doing any other nebulous serving work, a dedicated machine is the best way to go about it—it leaves your main box free to work its hardest, and means those services are available whenever you need them. But the worst thing about a server is when it isn’t there any more. If one of your software components forces a reboot, crashes the machine completely, or if it decides it