So, I setup a VPS on Linode and host 1 site on it. It's a fairly typical site, content-wise and functionality-wise - basically just a blog. I'm using MySQL, nginx, php-fpm and memcached. So, I had ...
You may want to set up a file server like FileRun for any number of reasons. The main reason, I would think, would be so you can have your own Google Drive alternative that is under your control ...