10 things you can do to give old servers a second life

Some of your old servers may be ready for retirement, but others can still play a useful role in your shop. Network manager Louis Nel suggests various ways to turn a potential doorstop into a useful piece of equipment.

For example, you might turn an old server into a patch management server, a NAS server for backups, a test server, a a DHCP server, or a monitoring server. Find out what's required to give your old servers a new lease on life.

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