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HPE does not publish an open end-of-life date for a ProLiant server. Its end-of-life notice for the DL360 and DL380 Gen10 is a Product Change Notification behind an HPE Support Center sign-in, under a title marked “(Revision)”; what was revised is behind the sign-in too. What H … read more

On October 13, 2026 — the October Patch Tuesday — the last Extended Security Update ever issued for Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 ships, and the program closes. Both tracks close at once: Microsoft's ESU lifecycle table lists the same end date, October&n … read more

The 2026 home lab has settled into a recognizable stack. Proxmox is still the most-recommended base in this year's community starter guides, with TrueNAS 27 (correction, October 13, 2026: this line first said TrueNAS 26, the name iXsystems dropped on October 5; 27 is a release … read more

Open Dell's PowerEdge configurator today and three things hit at once. The starting price is far above what you budgeted last year. The memory options you wanted say “No longer available.” And the build you finally assemble is weeks out, if it is orderable at all. T … read more

Correction and update, October 4, 2026. Windows Server 2022's dates stand — mainstream support ends October 13, 2026, security updates run to October 14, 2031 — but a Windows Server 2025 system can be certified only on second-generation or newer Xeon Scalable CPUs. … read more

"How much does a server cost?" used to have a boring answer. In 2026 it has a moving one: a global memory shortage roughly doubled server DRAM prices in a single quarter, Dell and Lenovo have each raised list prices twice since December while HPE rewrote its terms so a price ca … read more

On January 12, 2027, Microsoft ends extended support for Windows Server 2016. No more security updates, no more patches, no more support cases — for an operating system that still runs a very large installed base of Active Directory domains, file servers, and Hyper-V host … read more