For my family and friends, I've setup a server and dedicated hard drive with all of our movies, TV shows, and music. As long as you can connect to the network, you can access this and stream from it anywhere in the world anytime.

All you need is VLC to connect! Originally started as a passion project of wanting to revive the same experience of watching MTV back in the 90s, Televised turned into a full-on school project and then later a professional project.

For (mainly) myself and anybody else who needs access to locally shared files, I set up various folders and hard drive shares from my Windows 10 Pro server.

Now, instead of a local share, think Google Drive: ownCloud is essentially an on-premises version of Drive. Using Docker, I set up and still host a custom version of ownCloud for my family, friends, and anybody who is a member of Northern Intranet.

Obviously, if you're hosting an intranet that acts as a walled garden (look it up if you don't know somehow), you're gonna want to supply your own domain names. So, I set up a DNS server using Technitium. Through this, I can set up custom domains such as share.northern and home.northern without a sweat.

Using OpenFire Server, I set up my own instant messenger backend so that all it takes is a third-party client to connect and securely message anybody else on the service. Obviously, this is a crucial component for an intranet.

In order to get my raw IP addresses to become clean, simple web links like home.northern, I set up Zoraxy to turn things like 192.168.1.100:8050 into home.northern.

Another core feature for something like Northern is emailing. If you're gonna do business on here, or frankly anything professional, you gotta have an email. So, using hMailServer (because I didn't have an open Linux server at the time of creation), I was able to create Northern's email system.