So... whats your home server?

[Spikyyn]

Last Saturday, I bought a Wyse 5070 with Pentium J5005, 8GB ram and 120gb ssd on a local online store. It originally came with preinstalled Windows 10 but installed Alpine Linux in it by myself since I'm using it for selfhosted use.



Took this photo while I didn't have a ethernet and displayport cable required for setup yet till they were arrived a few days later, but now its sitting next to my router in my living room, aswell as my external SSD plugged in to the wyse, containing mine and my family's music library for my Navidrome server. It's currently idling at ~1GBs of memory with few docker containers running (Adguard Home, Mealie, Navidrome, and slskd) as I was writing this thread right now, but I'm planning to run Immich on it when I get my hands on second hand terabyte HDDs/SSDs. I believe the power consumption is around 5W too, which is so goddamn low for a thin client used as a server pc lol. Better than the RPI4s.

Best $65 of my life.

 

[videogamesm12]

I never really had a single "home server". I usually collected computers and used them for specific, separate purposes in mind:

• For quite some time, I used an HP Compaq 6300 Pro SFF which had an i5, 16 GB of DDR3 RAM, a 256 GB SATA SSD, and Windows 7 to run certain tasks or projects on as an auxilary sandbox system. It was previously my main computer from 2017 to 2020. Projects it ran ranged from just grinding on the Skyblock server we had to running the first go at the OmegaTrack project.
  
  
• The OmegaTrack project later moved to a Dell Latitude E7450 which had an i5, 4 GB of RAM, and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 for the rest of its run. After this, it became a form of "uptime" checker to see how things were going at home when I was far away from home. It still works but I recently put it in storage after it started randomly bluescreening.
  
  
• When Imgur was about to nuke everything from their servers, I used a Dell Chromebook 11 with Alpine Linux to run the ArchiveTeam Warrior. With this setup, I had helped archive about 332 GB worth of content.
  
  
• I currently have a Dell XPS desktop with some truly god-tier system specs for its time acting as my new media center PC to record OTA TV from and play some games from. Ever since I started using Linux, I also began to use this desktop as a "sandbox" to run Windows-only applications.

I have some more examples, but you get the idea. I collect computers like cats and they tend to serve very specific purposes.