Next #SelfHosting question: what are people using as low-powered home servers for things? I have an ancient desktop and various Raspberry Pi devices, but perhaps there's some specific hardware that peoiple favour for these kinds of projects?
I'm thinking the server should live in my garage (a separate building) or potentially in a relative's house. Low power consumption a plus!
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@Flamekebab It really depends what the task is. The Intel N100 gives a lot of computing power for a very modest power draw (still about 4 times that of a Pi, mind). I use one as my router, and it manages to deliver the full bandwidth of my gigabit fibre connection while running a full SPF firewall. I also use an older i3-based mini PC as a server for a bunch of Docker containers. Its power draw is more than the N100, but it was very, very cheap.
@hedders @Flamekebab I was thinking about this for my own home setup. Compute sits at a few places. Router is one, so is storage (NAS CPU has to process reads/writes). Less redundancy, but why not 1 high-core count node doing it all?
@tetrislife in principle there’s no reason not to do it all on one box. I didn’t simply because my home network grew up piecemeal; I bought a NAS, then later upgraded my router, added a couple of pi-holes, etc etc …