Depending on your exact wants, I think there was an LTT video recently on how you can purchase older server blades for very reasonable prices, and upgrade them

Depending on your exact wants, I think there was an LTT video recently on how you can purchase older server blades for very reasonable prices, and upgrade them using also reasonably priced used server-grade CPUs and RAM. Obviously you won’t have the bang of new hardware, but if what you want to do is play around with enterprise-class systems…