I have never homelabbed, and this is going to be my first experience. I want to set up a home server. My current goals are to set up a gallery using Immich, an ad blocker/DNS using Pi-hole, and a cloud service.
I want you to suggest what second-hand PC or laptop I should get. I researched a bit and found out that a PC is better because of 24/7 reliability, better cooling, no risk of laptop battery swelling, easy RAM and storage expandability, and low idle power consumption.
What I think the specs should be for me is 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage. And my budget is 10k INR.
I want to hear your thoughts. Thank you! :)
You’re right, it’s more than enough to run debian, docker, and a host of containers, so OP can start experimenting, but anything dealing with video or audio will gobble that up in minutes.
‘Gobble up’ 😰 Yeah ill give it a shot.
It’s even enough to add a lite desktop manager to debian for that gui goodness.
Yup