here’s what looks to be a pretty nice breakdown on one with a 9th gen intel CPU
in this case it looks like SODIMM (laptop) RAM and an nvme SSD.
I’ve seen models with 7th gen intel cpus that are very attractive to myself price wise. since the form factor hasn’t changed, i would believe they are using laptop RAM for these as well. unsure on the SSD
I have returned to this thread to share this page with you all:
Don’t worry, it’s not as sketchy as it seems - it is simply an index of the services I am hosting for public use. Still running on the same ol’ M700 ThinkCentre, as well as the bulk of the media being stored on an HP tower. I have lots more storage to play with now than when I started (upgraded the original 300GB HDD in the M700 to a 2TB SSD and ~5TB in the HP). I’m also hosting an uptime monitor with Pika Pods, that way if anything goes down there’s a site that’s still accessible to check.
The SSD form factor for these are the standard 2.5" SATA drives 
I host these things on an old PC:
I would like to also host my website on it, but the uptime of that PC is, uhm, not the best…
I have a lab for tinkering with work stuff and archiving, mostly.
I host the radar/sonar/jellyfin stack, some runners for the 32bit cafe gitea instance, and random bits and bops in docker.
Stuff that is accessible over the 'net is reverse proxied using HAproxy or caddy running on a VPS out in the wired. Additionally, it’s placed in the DMZ segment of my network. All traffic from these machines is blocked by the rest of the network. My personal machines can’t see them and they can’t see my personal machines. Servers in the DMZ have firewalls that default deny all traffic as well (except to their gateway), if they need to talk to each other I need change their firewall config. I use UFW for this because it’s easy. I should probably harden further but I’m lazy :p
Next thing to config is log aggregation, but again, I’m lazy, so this has been on the backburner for a long time. I’d also like to buy a new front line router, but money. I will continue to use consumer garbage I can scrounge flashed with opnwrt.
I’d love to move more stuff I care about onto my personal infra, but my internet / power are not reliable enough. I have an outage of one or the other around once every other month, which is real annoying if other people depend on yer stuff. Am actively looking for an excuse to rack and stack, install a UPS, and get have a dedicated a fiber line run, but that stuff costs money and few people are willing to pay for indie managed services / web hosts unfortunately.
Funnily enough kitting out my basement with some of the trappings of a data center is cheaper than local colos on a per month basis, even accounting for power/internet connection. Can only really justify a colo rack if you can get a bunch of people to pitch in. Only group local to me that’d want to do that already has a rack in another state, and as a result I don’t have a ton of
Today I installed Readeck and ArchiveBox.
They both technically archive web pages, but Readeck is more specifically for saving articles to read, and it includes highlighting! ArchiveBox is more of a tiny personal archive.org.
I had a lot of stuff on a VPS for a while, but at some point someone got access to it (because i wasn’t very careful) and installed some crypto mining software. and of course, because I was also lazy, I hadn’t made any backups yet.
I’ve got a new VPS that right now is mostly for hosting my website. It’s got my nodejs backend for my website, and another for a multiplayer game I started making a little while ago.
It’s also got obsidian-livesync going so i can sync up obsdian on my devices. (highly recommend, obsidian is bitchin)
I had set up a matrix server and everything, but didnt see myself making much use out of it. I’m keeping the docker image if I change my mind down the road tho.
I just got searXNG set up today too, and thats working pretty good so far!
I’m waiting for a new motherboard to come in before I really get going on my homeserver. I’m anticipating that im gonna go fuckin nuts installing different services, tho.
I’ve just picked up a new Intel NUC to replace my old gaming rig that serves as my current home server.
I’ll be self-hosting the same things at home, plex and *arr related apps for running and managing a media server.
Will be looking at crafting my own docker-compose file this time round.
I’m in a similar boat. My main site’s on a reseller server, along with two others, and it’s been more than enough for what I need right now. I had a dedicated server through LiquidWeb a few years back, but I just don’t need that kind of power these days.