The Marginalia search engine ran for over a year on a AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 128 GB non-ECC RAM and a mix of NAS drives and SSDs of various types ranging from c

The Marginalia search engine ran for over a year on a AMD Ryzen 9 3900X with 128 GB non-ECC RAM and a mix of NAS drives and SSDs of various types ranging from consumer crap, through enterprise drives, and even an Optane. 16 TB mechanical storage, 4 TB SSD. All on domestic broadband. It survived the HN front page and even bigger traffic spikes. Did blip out when Elon Musk tweeted a link to one of my blog posts, but only momentarily. Now that server's been relegated to run a test environment and to perform various odd jobs. I do think everyone interested in programming should have some sort of server in the house. Being able to run processing jobs for a few days really does radically expand what you're able to do.