I think homeserver and home lab are different things. For homeserver I use some rock chip arm computers. It runs stuff that is (arguably) useful like a file se

I think homeserver and home lab are different things. For homeserver I use some rock chip arm computers. It runs stuff that is (arguably) useful like a file server and a local DNS with ad and malware filtering rules. These are two fanless ARM machines that use less than 15W idle and they have a single OS and funny names. You can even say 2 machines is a bit too much already. For home lab I’ve set a k3s environment on Oracle free tier cloud. No personal data or anything that would cause me problems if Oracle decides supporting my freeloading ass is not worth the hassle. I can test things there for exemple recently dabbling into Prometheus since workplace will soon introduce it as a part of a managed offering for Azure Kubernetes services.