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I've bought a used Dell Poweredge T320 with Xeon E5-2428L (low consumption), 24GB RAM and an SSD, so it's quiet and cheap to run, and I've got Debian with docke
by rpigab 4y ago
I've bought a used Dell Poweredge T320 with Xeon E5-2428L (low consumption), 24GB RAM and an SSD, so it's quiet and cheap to run, and I've got Debian with dockerized services.
jwilder/nginx-proxy to act as a reverse proxy that dynamically routes traffic to containers without manually editing the config, using subdomains, with SSL wildcard cert
DokuWiki that I don't use much anymore
Nginx to serve static files used by other servers
My web resume
Piwigo for pictures
IoT: Custom Python Flask server that is used to control Philips Hue lights from ESP8266 wifi modules (cheaper than buying 20€ Philips switches)
Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) my password manager, shared with family
OpenVPN server
Wekan (self-hosted open source Trello-like)
Gitlab and Gitlab CI (created when Github didn't have free private repos, might delete at some point because it uses some CPU even when idle, but I have over 50 personal repos, also share with close family)
Nextcloud, but I don't use it for important/sensitive stuff yet, I'd have to set up a robust backup procedures
Other experiments, like openvscode-server, web interface with password to trigger wake-on-lan for my PC, etc.
Email seems like a pain because small servers are always seen as spam by big services, need to manage reputation, too complicated, so I use my hostname provider (Gandi) SMTP relay to send email, and I could set up a free inbox too, but I don't need it.
- duffyjp 4y agoI run a Poweredge T20 with a Xeon E3-1275Lv3. I snagged a 32GB kit of ECC ram from somebody's trashcan Mac Pro on eBay for a song and have a couple SSDs for OS and VMs. I use USB WD MyBook drives for storage and backups. Right now the server, switch, drives etc is pulling 31 watts from the wall and it's so quiet you can't tell it's on. I'm sure it would keep running for hours off the cheap UPS I have it all on. I had a second one as a desktop but the motherboard died last year. I'm not sure what I'll replace it with when the time comes. Probably one of those one liter PCs since I don't need internal 3.5" bays.
- rpigab 4y agoIf I replace it one day, it might be for a "miniITX" (whatever MB size corresponds to ~1 liter PCs) but I fear the cost of the case + specific MB + low-power processor with many threads + good NVME SSD will be through the roof, compared to this cheap used T320, and they're hard to find in used form, at least for now.