Oddly specific title. Another 2012 laptop-at-home hoster reporting in, AMA I guess! I didn't have any thermal/fan issues the way OP described, but my laptop is

Oddly specific title. Another 2012 laptop-at-home hoster reporting in, AMA I guess! I didn't have any thermal/fan issues the way OP described, but my laptop is also more powerful (Asus rather than a ThinkPad) so it was presumably just made to handle more heat. This was an upgrade in 2019 from an Asus EEE box which had similar power requirements, which was an upgrade in 2013 from a 2001 laptop. Whether this works for you all depends on your goals, or more and more often, what software you use to achieve these goals: - Compiling huge software suites like an OS or Firefox as a service is just too heavy. - Average company website, personal blog, torrent host, personal vpn server, Factorio server, mail server, git server (gitea), and more all at once? Perfectly fine, that's exactly what I do. - Single gitlab service? Oof, that's on the edge of minimum requirements https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html , but should work okay if you don't have too many users.