Edent, 13 days ago

@tommorris
I use an HP Proliant Gen8
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/building-a-new-microserver/
Cheap 2nd hand. Shorter than a full tower. Runs Linux. Lots of space for disks. Has a PCie 16x slot for a GPU (although I've never used it).
Seems efficient, but can be a bit noisy depending on the disks you get.
Very expandable.

tommorris, 13 days ago

@Edent Thanks for that - I vaguely recall reading that post when you published it.

samir, 13 days ago

@tommorris I’m looking for the same thing. If you hear about something that works, please yell about it.

I know @thisismissem got a Peladn mini PC recently but I don’t know if she’s using it as a server or for something else. Perhaps she’ll chime in. 🙂

I have personally been looking at Minis Forum but haven’t bitten yet.

thisismissem, 13 days ago

@samir @tommorris yes, using it as a server, though it's been down for a gew weeks because something in debian's disk encryption screwed up and I haven't had time to rebuild or repair.

It runs debian and the goal is to offload my dockwr development environment to it, and to have a server working for pixelfed development

samir, 12 days ago

@thisismissem @tommorris That sounds very frustrating. I hope you can get it fixed soon.

Did you like it, for the time it was functional?

And where did you order from? I had a look but it seems like there’s a lot of suppliers and I was a bit overwhelmed.

thisismissem, 12 days ago

@samir @tommorris ended up ordering from Amazon, there's tonnes of suppliers, I'd probably recommend just looking for specs you like