Home servers are not bad per-se. Personally, if I am fine with power outages, non-redundant uplinks, I'd just go with a 8 core cpu board so I can run proper vir

Home servers are not bad per-se. Personally, if I am fine with power outages, non-redundant uplinks, I'd just go with a 8 core cpu board so I can run proper virtualization. If your laptop is not powerful enough that is - there's a thing to be said for taking your dev environment with you.