Discuss building, setting up your own homeserver and maintaining the services and demons on it.
[Quick Questions Quick replies] Why would I want a NAS/Homeserver? If you ask why then you don't need it.
[I want a NAS/HTPC/Plex what should I get?] RPi3, Asus Tinker or Odroid XU4/HC1.
Are you interested in learning Linux or BSD administration and configuration better? Becoming a systemd expert? Or maybe you hate that shit and want a cozy little BSD machine to run services on and interact with. Or practice more advanced and complicated networking setups.
Do any of y'all use old business desktops as servers? I have an old cheap dual core AMD ZFS box with 16 GB DDR3. The CPU isn't cutting it anymore so I'm thinking of getting a cheap (~$200) i7 Haswell office PC and buying some time until Epyc Embedded is more available.
Andrew Sanders
200$ gets you a at least dual 8core xeon system with 64gb ram. i've seen a 64core opteron system with 128gb ram for 300$
Jonathan Walker
What generation Xeon? Power savings is one concern as well.
you can't have a home server in this day and age and have it pay for itself - you will use too much bandwidth and electricity to offset any potential profits
