My first server was some racks I pilfered from school and put in my closet. The 15000 rpm SCSI drives and 90db fans did not make for easy sleeping. I still thi

My first server was some racks I pilfered from school and put in my closet. The 15000 rpm SCSI drives and 90db fans did not make for easy sleeping. I still think you can go a long way with bare metal you might have laying around. I find hosted VMs to be woefully underpowered for their specs.