If you follow the homelab sub reddit, a lot of people like to run old obsolete datacenter gear. You don't have to do that. Mine is a pair of Ryzen 2 white boxe

If you follow the homelab sub reddit, a lot of people like to run old obsolete datacenter gear. You don't have to do that. Mine is a pair of Ryzen 2 white boxes. They are dead silent and don't put out much heat either. All my network gear is fanless too. I do automation, so I use mine for dev/test against the stuff I am automating. A lot of it could run in the cloud, but that gets expensive real quick. Especially when I am working with a VMware stack.