Do you actually want to manage a home server? I mean it’s fun and all, but maintaining it is time consuming. Personally I’d rather give some money to AWS and fo

Do you actually want to manage a home server? I mean it’s fun and all, but maintaining it is time consuming. Personally I’d rather give some money to AWS and forget about it. But if you must, any desktop PC will do - just make sure you have reliable storage, multiple SSDs in RAID 1 (or similar that allows multiple disks to die). A laptop would work but you’ve got the issue of having a single disk (an external one over USB doesn’t cut it) as well as unreliable components - it might die after running 24/7 for a few months, most likely due to bad thermal design. You’ll also need to have a decent network connection, with IPv6 and a separate IPv4 for the server so it can be reached from the outside without any NAT nonsense, and potentially an UPS so a power cut doesn’t make all your services unavailable and potentially corrupt your data.