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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 R
by 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 agoI 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 agoFor 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 agoI 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 agoFWIW, 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.