I've got some rack servers, but currently my Proxmox flagship is a (£350) HP Z840 128GB of ram and dual E5-2697 V3 CPUs, but not every service need to run on a monster power sucking device. For these I'm using Fujitsu S720 and S920 repurposed thin clients as mini-servers, which sip minimal power. Small, passively cooled and cheap to buy, £20 to £25 for a S720, £30 to £45 for a S920. The S920 has a handy pcie slot. They're old, but affordable and still useful. Where I live in the UK, the wind is predominately off the north Atlantic. The short summers are mainly in the 60F to 70F range, winters are long and bitter. The little bit heat off the Xeons is really welcome then.
In contrast, the heat here in Luly-September has days often opping out at 105F. So, if there were servers that generated cold, I would be in. The Z840, the Dell PowerEdge servers are really pricey in the £2000 range and for the folks starting out in the Home Lab arena, many don't want to spend more than for a Raspberry Pi 4. The Fujitsu thin client devices you mention lack for memory and cores unless you are going to use them for single purpose. It's always interesting to see how folks build our their environments. My motivation in making this video was to try and provide some basic guidelines to those wanting to build out Incus servers.
Just start with what you have, or can get at a decent price as a starting point. What takes time, is actually not buying the hardware, but figuring out how to actually configure all the stuff you want, and when you have that knowledge you should also know what to aim for hardware wise.
and that's basically what the channel is all about. Infrastructure design/configuration in a nutshell.
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Would you be willing to do one video on nftables? I guess nftables are not supposed to be written from scratch but on small networks/homelab situations, I find it useful, although tricky at times. Thanks!
The n100's are indeed less expensive. I tend to recommend low to mid-range Ryzen's for just a tad higher price because they generally provide more threads. However, for someone just starting, the N100's are super attractive over something like a pi.
i'd rather buy a couple of sub £100 dollar used mini pc's then one of the newer mini pc's with unkown longevity, for the same price Then max out the cpu/memory with cheap used parts, and then cluster them for redundancy, perfect for home labs My current go to is HP elitedesk 800 g3 mini, cheap to upgrade to 32gb memory and cheap second hand cpu upgrade
I've got some rack servers, but currently my Proxmox flagship is a (£350) HP Z840 128GB of ram and dual E5-2697 V3 CPUs, but not every service need to run on a monster power sucking device. For these I'm using Fujitsu S720 and S920 repurposed thin clients as mini-servers, which sip minimal power. Small, passively cooled and cheap to buy, £20 to £25 for a S720, £30 to £45 for a S920. The S920 has a handy pcie slot. They're old, but affordable and still useful.
Where I live in the UK, the wind is predominately off the north Atlantic. The short summers are mainly in the 60F to 70F range, winters are long and bitter. The little bit heat off the Xeons is really welcome then.
In contrast, the heat here in Luly-September has days often opping out at 105F. So, if there were servers that generated cold, I would be in. The Z840, the Dell PowerEdge servers are really pricey in the £2000 range and for the folks starting out in the Home Lab arena, many don't want to spend more than for a Raspberry Pi 4. The Fujitsu thin client devices you mention lack for memory and cores unless you are going to use them for single purpose. It's always interesting to see how folks build our their environments. My motivation in making this video was to try and provide some basic guidelines to those wanting to build out Incus servers.
Just start with what you have, or can get at a decent price as a starting point.
What takes time, is actually not buying the hardware, but figuring out how to actually configure all the stuff you want, and when you have that knowledge you should also know what to aim for hardware wise.
and that's basically what the channel is all about. Infrastructure design/configuration in a nutshell.
Would you be willing to do one video on nftables? I guess nftables are not supposed to be written from scratch but on small networks/homelab situations, I find it useful, although tricky at times. Thanks!
I suppose that's a thought. Nftables are as much of an issue as are netplan files which I have covered before.
thx Scott and yes mini pcs are great. You can buy some n100 mini pcs at 120$ with 2.5 Gb/s ethernet port :)
The n100's are indeed less expensive. I tend to recommend low to mid-range Ryzen's for just a tad higher price because they generally provide more threads. However, for someone just starting, the N100's are super attractive over something like a pi.
Sorry, might have missed - have you reviewed mesh selfhosted vpn like nebula or netbird?
I haven't covered any meshed VPN solutions. I have talked a bit about cloudflare tunnels .
No such vids yet
i'd rather buy a couple of sub £100 dollar used mini pc's then one of the newer mini pc's with unkown longevity, for the same price
Then max out the cpu/memory with cheap used parts, and then cluster them for redundancy, perfect for home labs
My current go to is HP elitedesk 800 g3 mini, cheap to upgrade to 32gb memory and cheap second hand cpu upgrade
@@myhometvaccount9365 I hear you. Many folks like the 1 litre systems available used for cheap. The only issue with those can be memory limitations.