Looking for recommendations for a mini pc server to start self hosting

khi@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 70 points –

With all this migration i’ve been inspired to start self hosting some services.

I am looking for a mini pc to ideally run linux and host a media server with radarr and sonarr, pihole and some other stuff as i start getting more into self hosting.

Any recommendations / experiences that you can give? Or some general guidelines on what i should look for or things to avoid.

Thank you!!

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A few years old prebuilt for the office can work well, I have an HP 290 and HP S01 that work great as servers.

That’s what I did as well. Got one with a sixth gen i7 for $100 on eBay a few years ago. It’s been chugging along nicely.

Same here. I have everything running on an ex-lease HP EliteDesk. Small footprint, and quite upgradable. Think I paid about £150 for it and it's been running quite happily for a couple of years. Runs everything I can throw at it.

I don't know why people buy RPIs anymore, unless the tiny form-factor is a must have.