I’m trying to start out self-hosting and was looking for some good servers. I have a budget of ~100 USD and am in the US. I was initially going to get some type of raspberry pi but they seem to always be sold out here

  • Br0adbean@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I have an Intel NUC, particularly the NUC8i5BEH I got off eBay. Unofficially supports up to 64GB of memory and has NVMe and SATA for storage. Small footprint and sips power. I currently use mine to run ESXi with a few VMs on it, sits in a cupboard and had no issues with it. Probably a bit more expensive than a small form factor PCs from the likes of Dell or Lenovo for others have suggested though.

    • Spy@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Do you know how much they are? Some family was showing me some. However, they were around 1.7K USD

      • Br0adbean@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        I was watching one recently on eBay with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD that went for 200 GBP. I’d go secondhand, not brand new. Anything newer than an 8th gen intel CPU, ideally quad core should be enough to get you started.

      • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        They’ve been making them for quite a few years so you can pick up older/slower ones for very cheap just depending on how fast you need it to go - I recently picked up a NUC10 i7 for my plex server