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EDIT: i had an rpi it died from esd i think
EDIT2: this is also my work machine and i sleep to the sound of the fans
I got like 6 old computers from 2000 to 2016 all doing different things. If I had a choice between a high end server and cobbled together mess I would always choose the mess. Lot more entertainment and fun to figure out
Mine are a bit more recent (2012-202*) but same thing. Old hardware gets used for something, my "server" is just my old i5 11500k with as much ram as I could throw at it and as many drives as I can fit in the case. Oldest is a laptop that's my bench computer.
Helps me justify upgrades, hardware's been capable for a long time, always impressive to me just how capable things are, and sometimes it's part of the fun (if you enjoy problem solving) to work around limitations. Off-lease enterprise stuff interests me, would need to figure out where it lives though.
I use an Asus laptop I bought during COVID as my server. I dropped in 64GB of RAM, a pair of NVM drives and an old 2.5β SATA SSD. More than enough for my use cases. The only real software tweak I made was limiting battery charging to 60%.
UPS right on board (kind of)
Don't worry, I'm using an over 10 year old on-board Atom Mainboard, and it works fine with several services running.
How would you connect to your "server" when you don't know it's IP? With static IP or DNS or both?
For local services? - just type in static IP that I've assigned myself, otherwise I have a subdomain pointing to my online services. works like a charm
Dynamic DNS or static IP. Whatever is convenient for you. If humans are connecting, it is generally prefered to type in a domain name, rather than an IP address.
Yeah dynamic DNS works pretty good for me, after I set it up I never had any problems with it.
I just have a used Dell T3600 I got for like 50 bucks at most? Desktop form factor and quiet fans mostly, but still has 32GB ECC memory, 8 core CPU and a full size PCI-E slot to put my 1070 Ti in for transcoding in Immich and Jellyfin, secondary stable Diffusion setup and such and such.