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For a tiny desktop, I've used my lenovo M900 tiny thinkcentre. It's also good as a very capable home server and runs practically silently.

datadrivenangel 3y ago
These are great little boxes. Got a few second hand and they are power efficient and quite capable.
shortrounddev2 3y ago
I've always wondered what those types of PCs are for, other than enterprise workstations in offices. What do you use your home server for? Serving media?
- mcronce 3y ago
  I've got one in use (it was my father-in-law's desktop PC when he was still alive) as a node in my k8s cluster. It's currently got a couple of Gitlab's microservices, one of Harbor's microservices, ntfy, Nextcloud, coredns, and a couple ephemeral MySQL backup processes running.
  - shortrounddev2 3y ago
    But what are those for? Like what applications do you run with then and what are you using them for?
    - mcronce 3y ago
      The Gitlab microservices run Gitlab; the Harbor microservice runs Harbor. ntfy and Nextcloud are their own services, and coredns serves DNS to the network. The MySQL backup processes are for small apps I host for myself and for a friend's bar.
- bloopernova 3y ago
  General "thing" to ssh into. Dev box for local development. File serving. Home Assistant server. Testing Container stuff.
- ja27 3y ago
  I have one (i7-6700T, 32GB RAM) that cost me about $250. Runs proxmox. A few VMs for trying new BSD/linux releases, Plan 9, etc. A Windows VM. A minecraft server. A couple dev/test servers. I have another small PC next to it running stuff like Plex and webhosting that I'd like to containerize and move to a VM on proxmox.
- ranger207 3y ago
  Right now my homelab hosts a MediaWiki instance for personal writing, a couple of instances of Foundry Virtual Tabletop for playing D&D over the internet, and a handful of video game dedicated servers. Most importantly though it's a practice environment for genetal systems administration

datadrivenangel 3y ago

These are great little boxes. Got a few second hand and they are power efficient and quite capable.

shortrounddev2 3y ago

I've always wondered what those types of PCs are for, other than enterprise workstations in offices. What do you use your home server for? Serving media?

mcronce 3y ago
I've got one in use (it was my father-in-law's desktop PC when he was still alive) as a node in my k8s cluster. It's currently got a couple of Gitlab's microservices, one of Harbor's microservices, ntfy, Nextcloud, coredns, and a couple ephemeral MySQL backup processes running.
- shortrounddev2 3y ago
  But what are those for? Like what applications do you run with then and what are you using them for?
  - mcronce 3y ago
    The Gitlab microservices run Gitlab; the Harbor microservice runs Harbor. ntfy and Nextcloud are their own services, and coredns serves DNS to the network. The MySQL backup processes are for small apps I host for myself and for a friend's bar.
bloopernova 3y ago
General "thing" to ssh into. Dev box for local development. File serving. Home Assistant server. Testing Container stuff.
ja27 3y ago
I have one (i7-6700T, 32GB RAM) that cost me about $250. Runs proxmox. A few VMs for trying new BSD/linux releases, Plan 9, etc. A Windows VM. A minecraft server. A couple dev/test servers. I have another small PC next to it running stuff like Plex and webhosting that I'd like to containerize and move to a VM on proxmox.
ranger207 3y ago
Right now my homelab hosts a MediaWiki instance for personal writing, a couple of instances of Foundry Virtual Tabletop for playing D&D over the internet, and a handful of video game dedicated servers. Most importantly though it's a practice environment for genetal systems administration