I’ve never learned about servers - never worked in IT, just a simple old hobbyist. Also never used a Raspberry Pi. But thank you! I might get around to reading up on the topic of servers over the winter. My computer has two drives, the original “spinning rust” and an SSD I installed (so quick! so quiet!). My thought is to keep Windows on a partition until I’m sure I like the distro I’ve chosen.
I have multiple backup drives, from a wee 4Tb Toshiba to a SparQ drive with 1Gb cartridges (a whole gigabyte, how will I ever fill it?). I’m pretty sure I’ve got everything saved, but I’m equally sure there’ll be something I’ve missed.
The upshot of a server is: it sits on your network and you can access its files as if they were a drive on your own system. There’s a lot you can do beyond that, but the core value of a server is: files on the server are available to all computers on the network. It makes more intuitive sense when you have multiple desktop computers to share the files between, but even if you only have/use one desktop, the server still makes a lot of sense in terms of keeping your files insulated from problems that happen to your desktop system.
And “server” conjures visions of a big room with a special air conditioning system and raised floor for the cables. In today’s reality, a 4TB server can be the size of a pack of playing cards.
I’ve never learned about servers - never worked in IT, just a simple old hobbyist. Also never used a Raspberry Pi. But thank you! I might get around to reading up on the topic of servers over the winter. My computer has two drives, the original “spinning rust” and an SSD I installed (so quick! so quiet!). My thought is to keep Windows on a partition until I’m sure I like the distro I’ve chosen.
I have multiple backup drives, from a wee 4Tb Toshiba to a SparQ drive with 1Gb cartridges (a whole gigabyte, how will I ever fill it?). I’m pretty sure I’ve got everything saved, but I’m equally sure there’ll be something I’ve missed.
The upshot of a server is: it sits on your network and you can access its files as if they were a drive on your own system. There’s a lot you can do beyond that, but the core value of a server is: files on the server are available to all computers on the network. It makes more intuitive sense when you have multiple desktop computers to share the files between, but even if you only have/use one desktop, the server still makes a lot of sense in terms of keeping your files insulated from problems that happen to your desktop system.
And “server” conjures visions of a big room with a special air conditioning system and raised floor for the cables. In today’s reality, a 4TB server can be the size of a pack of playing cards.