one more note. I also installed a air intake vent on the bottom to bring in the room's AC and a vent at the top. This provides continuous circulation of cool are for the closet. It is not super cool, but is kept at a nice 75F all year with all my equipment powered on.
I remodeled my house last year and wired the entire house. I may have gone a little overboard, but am very glad of the effort. Most rooms have 2 runs with four CAT5e drops each. The drops are on opposite walls. This way if you change your mind, you do not have to snake cables across the room or around the perimeter. I did not run Coax as cable TV is going to be dead sooner than later, and there will be more streaming services. Don't own a TV, 4 years and counting. Do not subscribe to cable, 10 years and counting. Why four per run? Well CAT5e is very versatile. Aside from computer networks, I used it to distribute my home phone network. You can stream HDMI over 2 CAT5e cables. If I really wanted to, I could hook coax onto CAT5e http://www.lynxbroadband.com/. If a cable becomes extra, I can always take it out and snake another wire (HDMI, speaker, etc) through the same location with fish tape. Also some home automation and sound systems can hook up to CAT5e. So I could always re-purpose a wire for one one of these. When drilling through the studs, be sure to have a minimum 1" hole. This is enough room for about 7 CAT5e cables, or some combination desired wires. For the server closet, I have a small narrow closet with a wall mounted 24U swing rack. Be sure to go with a 25" rack system. Most server chassis are 25" deep. The 18" racks will limit the kind of hardware you can rack up.
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one more note. I also installed a air intake vent on the bottom to bring in the room's AC and a vent at the top. This provides continuous circulation of cool are for the closet. It is not super cool, but is kept at a nice 75F all year with all my equipment powered on.
I remodeled my house last year and wired the entire house. I may have gone a little overboard, but am very glad of the effort. Most rooms have 2 runs with four CAT5e drops each. The drops are on opposite walls. This way if you change your mind, you do not have to snake cables across the room or around the perimeter. I did not run Coax as cable TV is going to be dead sooner than later, and there will be more streaming services. Don't own a TV, 4 years and counting. Do not subscribe to cable, 10 years and counting. Why four per run? Well CAT5e is very versatile. Aside from computer networks, I used it to distribute my home phone network. You can stream HDMI over 2 CAT5e cables. If I really wanted to, I could hook coax onto CAT5e http://www.lynxbroadband.com/. If a cable becomes extra, I can always take it out and snake another wire (HDMI, speaker, etc) through the same location with fish tape. Also some home automation and sound systems can hook up to CAT5e. So I could always re-purpose a wire for one one of these. When drilling through the studs, be sure to have a minimum 1" hole. This is enough room for about 7 CAT5e cables, or some combination desired wires. For the server closet, I have a small narrow closet with a wall mounted 24U swing rack. Be sure to go with a 25" rack system. Most server chassis are 25" deep. The 18" racks will limit the kind of hardware you can rack up.