I have had a similar path in the past, I've started with some Raspi 1, than suffer their little horsepower, tried a minipc then suffer it's limited expandability than I switch to an assembled desktop rackmounted as a short-depth 5U. Intel in my case, but that's is.
In the end modern iron eat not too much energy, do not produce too much heat, is not super cheap, but compared to modern raspi and co prices and their spec... It's worth the investment AND we damn need homeservers in this dark uncivilized modern mainframe world.
The next real issues are:
- having IPv6 with a global per host, to ease connections;
- ready made services, for instance we have a handful self-hosted VoIP solution NO ONE OF THEM easy to deploy, with many dependencies and poor results, and no I'm not talking about Big Blue Button but simple WebRTC apps, services for IoT, meaning hw using open protocols (MQTT, the old ModBUS, Kafka, Matter, CoIoT etc) with something possibly more manageable than Home Assistant or OpenHAB;
- get people to the idea that's the time to have a homeserver per home, for their own services and internal needs.
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I have had a similar path in the past, I've started with some Raspi 1, than suffer their little horsepower, tried a minipc then suffer it's limited expandability than I switch to an assembled desktop rackmounted as a short-depth 5U. Intel in my case, but that's is.
In the end modern iron eat not too much energy, do not produce too much heat, is not super cheap, but compared to modern raspi and co prices and their spec... It's worth the investment AND we damn need homeservers in this dark uncivilized modern mainframe world.
The next real issues are:
- having IPv6 with a global per host, to ease connections;
- ready made services, for instance we have a handful self-hosted VoIP solution NO ONE OF THEM easy to deploy, with many dependencies and poor results, and no I'm not talking about Big Blue Button but simple WebRTC apps, services for IoT, meaning hw using open protocols (MQTT, the old ModBUS, Kafka, Matter, CoIoT etc) with something possibly more manageable than Home Assistant or OpenHAB;
- get people to the idea that's the time to have a homeserver per home, for their own services and internal needs.