Hello,

I want very cheapt PC or laptop for self hosting stuff. I am probably going to have a static ip soon which would be fun :D

  • whoareuOP
    3·
    2 months ago

    I host invidious, pihole, thelounge and some IRC bots. I want to also host Lemmy, mastodon etc, however I don’t have enough storage and cpu on my linode server to sustain this many services.

    I am kinda afraid of using eBay because of scams. I don’t wanna wait for pc forever which never gonna come after paying money.

    • LalSalaamComrade@lemmy.mlMEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I guess you should look for something like a old Lenovo ThinkCentre or a Dell Optiplex. Pick something with 4 or more physical cores, add 16GB to 32GB of RAM, 1-2TB of space and you should be good to go? Just hope that you don’t broadcast your own links to other folks, or your server won’t be able to take the huge influx of network traffic.

      Btw, I’ve heard that eBay (the site) protects your against scammers. Now, I’ve personally never used eBay, but I’ll soon be, to get myself a used ThinkPad for cheap.