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With the internet you can access so many applications say a cooking program to help you prepare meals. The network configuration is pretty simple. It might look something like this: But then you can actually set up your own home web server and the network might look something like this. I have separated the web paths from the internet and the local web server  to make things a little clearer. Now that means you could have even more interesting web applications such as a web desktop. Some with a tablet could still generate documents without having any special applications on the tablet. You even set up many other applications without having to use the web. ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Uses-for-your-own-private-cloud/ ) So now you have double the pleasure. But what if your internet was cut off or you needed to limit your bandwidth. The the network might look something like this, but you would still have access to your local server. This is sometimes kno...

Just a video of my old Dell GX1 (p2) web/cloud server. Except for the videos on the web page, all software is local on the machine. Certainly could of had the videos local also. The same server also acts a traditional Itunes server, but that feature is not shown. What is really neat are some of the gui (graphical user interface) that a remote machine or even a tablet can use. Point one being that you can use the software on the server and not have to load software on client machines. Point two being that data is on the server and not the local machines. A tiny bit more security in some ways. There is no sound in the video. Still experimenting with different software and did not have time to set all that up. If you can bear with the video, you will see it is worth it. Not all the applications on the server were shown. Just gave you enough to whet your appetite. Yours truly wrote the software for the main web page and some of the applications. This is the wave of the future as to ho...