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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by philjohn on Sunday June 08, 2025 @02:55PM (#44218865)
The best bang for buck at the moment seems to be tiny mini micro machines https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...

Typically available regularly via ebay (or similar) as businesses rotate them out for new hardware.

The other week I picked up an i5 9400T Lenovo m720q with 16GB of memory for £100 delivered.

They practically sip power, although that's less true now I've shoved a 10Gb dual SFP NIC in there.

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by xcrunner529 on Sunday June 08, 2025 @10:28PM (#44220979)
Yep. I have bought 3 or 4 for different uses. So perfect as servers. I run plex and lots of docker containers. Development. Etc. all of those machines are so useful for console Linux and containers.
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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by articsputnik on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:44AM (#44225643)
I have one like these, too as my home server, HP Elitedesk 800 G5 DM, to be explicit.
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