Looking to build my first server out, trying to figure out if there is a “better” platform for my needs. Right now I’m just planning a mix of machines and containers in Proxmox for running a NAS and Plex server, router of some sort (also, any preferences on wireless access points?), a pihole if that’s not just as easily done in whatever router OS I decide on, VPN, and 3-5 various machines/containers going in and out of service as I find what my needs else I want to play with and host continuously…
Basically just looking for bang for the buck CPU/chipsets people are getting for this use case. Any advantages of AMD vs Intel in mid-consumer level options? Is getting something similar with more efficiency cores worth worrying about in a hypervisor use case?
Running 3x Intel nuc 6th gen in a cluster since I migrated after Nutanix in 2019. Not much power but all I’m running is some docker and random lab stuff on demand for POC and then shut it down. I’ve run whole windows domains with RDS and rdg and broker with fs logix. Otherwise it’s also running two Ubuntu servers hosting pihole and the arr stack and my own instance of rust desk server. I can administrate it anywhere thanks to tailscale and there’s a opnsense router too.
Basically it’ll depend on your expectation and use case, but it’s really light as you’d expect and if these 6 dual core machines can host all that, a modern CPU could do more. Amd or Intel.