Best home servers (for free)

Throughout the course of this year, we’ve been walking through the process of installing server apps for your home network. We’ve covered how to use Windows Services for Linux to run Linux server apps on a Windows PC; we’ve looked at using Docker to make that process astronomically easier; we’ve looked at how you can make those services accessible from outside your home network.

So now, we thought we’d take a look at the apps that are actually worth running on your home network. There are plenty of apps we could cover here, and we’ve excluded ones we’ve covered elsewhere like ownCloud, Kodi and Plex, but here are six of our