> For instance Intel makes "atom" devices that if they don't die early because of design flaws, they die early because they aren't really useful. Setting aside

> For instance Intel makes "atom" devices that if they don't die early because of design flaws, they die early because they aren't really useful. Setting aside the reliability concerns (see other comments) for a bit... I think a number of years ago Scaleway (or someone else) offered VPSes with Intel Atom CPUs and had some ARM offerings as well. This discussion appears to be the best I can find at the moment: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/77819/new-scalaway-c2-intel-avoton-based-dedicated-server https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/77819/new-scalaway-c2-inte... For my needs, really cheap VPS servers are essentially ideal since most of my workloads are RAM bottlenecked and can easily deal with a single core CPU. This would also be perfect for hobby projects. Why live on free tiers that have lots of limitations when you can just get new nodes per project (or group of projects) for 1-3 Euros a month? Actually, my current homelab servers (that I also use as CI nodes) run AMD GE200 CPUs with a TDP of 35W. If I could find something that's AM4 compatible, readily available and cheap, you can be pretty sure I'd go for it! Oh, and my notebook runs I think one of the Celerons, that have a <10 W TDP and that's still good enough for browsing the web, chatting, writing blog posts and so on, even some light development work. And the whole notebook cost around 200 Euros when I got it. Just look at how popular Raspberry Pi is as a platform for homelabs, now imagine doing the same with the x86 platform and not some overpriced novelty hardware that comes in small runs, but something to rival the mass production of Pi. I want to live in that world. If we weren't so heavily impacted by Wirth's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law) both in regards to our OSes (just try running anything heavier than XFCE4 on any of those pieces of hardware) and platforms (e.g. comparing the footprint of Go vs something like Ruby or Java; though each have their uses; though there's also the facet of lots of browser-based software nowadays, e.g. Visual Studio Code vs a native text editor like CudaText), far fewer people would consider hardware like that "underpowered" or e-waste.