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I'm looking for a cheap-ass VPS setup at home. Need 2 nodes with 16Gb each. Any recommendations?

by raarts 9y ago

2bluesc 9y ago
This is off topic, but here's the site you're looking for: https://lowendbox.com https://lowendbox.com
- raarts 9y ago
  Thanks, but looking to host my own hardware. Maybe that wasn't clear.
krylon 9y ago
Depending on your definition of cheap, I can highly recommend the HP ProLiant Microserver - it's small (about one cubic foot), an entry level model with 16 GB RAM (without HDDs/SSDs) is about € 300-350. I have used it as my home server for the last two years, and it has worked very well for me. Quiet, reliable. The Gen8 which runs on an Intel CPU can be equipped with a low-end Xeon, if needed, but that drives up the price accordingly.
- bpye 9y ago
  I like the Gen8, limited to Intel Ivy Bridge at best but I have a Xeon E3-1230v2 in mine with 12GB RAM and it works great. If you can find a cheap license for iLO Advanced the remote administration is really useful too.
  - krylon 9y ago
    For the price, it is amazing how much server HP managed to cram into that little box. Mine has Celeron CPU, 16 GB RAM, runs FreeBSD, is mainly a file server (ZFS w/ 8 GB ARC) plus a few virtual machines via bhyve. The entire machine, including HDDs was about € 800,- CPU-wise, performance is not exciting, of course, but disk- and network-performance is totally sufficient to serve a small home or office network. Which is what they were made for, I guess. ;-) In two years, this little box has not let me down once.
    - bpye 9y ago
      I love my little microserver. I've ran Ubuntu for a while, then FreeNAS and now Alpine Linux though I've been playing with FreeBSD on my second laptop and am tempted to try running it instead. I'm already using ZFS for storage (migrated the pool between each OS).
      - krylon 9y ago
        FWIW, mine runs FreeBSD, and it has not given me any trouble. Virtualization support is present even in the Celeron GT1610, so bhyve works as well. Jails and ZFS play together very nicely.
antongribok 9y ago
An Intel NUC is a decent way to go. The gen 7 NUCs are pretty beefy (up to 32 GB RAM and plenty of storage options). If building multiple of these, I would go for the lower end i3 (NUC7I3BNH) which comes with a Kaby Lake i3-7100U that supports VT-x and VT-d extensions. (Currently $230 at MicroCenter.) Just add RAM and an SSD, and you're all set.

I'm looking for a cheap-ass VPS setup at home. Need 2 nodes with 16Gb each. Any recommendations?

by raarts 9y ago

I'm looking for a cheap-ass VPS setup at home. Need 2 nodes with 16Gb each. Any recommendations?

2bluesc 9y ago

This is off topic, but here's the site you're looking for: https://lowendbox.com https://lowendbox.com

raarts 9y ago
Thanks, but looking to host my own hardware. Maybe that wasn't clear.

krylon 9y ago

Depending on your definition of cheap, I can highly recommend the HP ProLiant Microserver - it's small (about one cubic foot), an entry level model with 16 GB RAM (without HDDs/SSDs) is about € 300-350. I have used it as my home server for the last two years, and it has worked very well for me. Quiet, reliable. The Gen8 which runs on an Intel CPU can be equipped with a low-end Xeon, if needed, but that drives up the price accordingly.

bpye 9y ago
I like the Gen8, limited to Intel Ivy Bridge at best but I have a Xeon E3-1230v2 in mine with 12GB RAM and it works great. If you can find a cheap license for iLO Advanced the remote administration is really useful too.
- krylon 9y ago
  For the price, it is amazing how much server HP managed to cram into that little box. Mine has Celeron CPU, 16 GB RAM, runs FreeBSD, is mainly a file server (ZFS w/ 8 GB ARC) plus a few virtual machines via bhyve. The entire machine, including HDDs was about € 800,- CPU-wise, performance is not exciting, of course, but disk- and network-performance is totally sufficient to serve a small home or office network. Which is what they were made for, I guess. ;-) In two years, this little box has not let me down once.
  - bpye 9y ago
    I love my little microserver. I've ran Ubuntu for a while, then FreeNAS and now Alpine Linux though I've been playing with FreeBSD on my second laptop and am tempted to try running it instead. I'm already using ZFS for storage (migrated the pool between each OS).
    - krylon 9y ago
      FWIW, mine runs FreeBSD, and it has not given me any trouble. Virtualization support is present even in the Celeron GT1610, so bhyve works as well. Jails and ZFS play together very nicely.

antongribok 9y ago

An Intel NUC is a decent way to go. The gen 7 NUCs are pretty beefy (up to 32 GB RAM and plenty of storage options). If building multiple of these, I would go for the lower end i3 (NUC7I3BNH) which comes with a Kaby Lake i3-7100U that supports VT-x and VT-d extensions. (Currently $230 at MicroCenter.) Just add RAM and an SSD, and you're all set.