I have an early 2000s PC (pre-SATA) with 512MB RAM (I’d love to tell you about the CPU, but its under a cooler that isn’t going anywhere) that’s been sitting in closets for about 15 years. Assuming I’m willing to buy into it, can something like that reasonably host the following simultaneously on a 40GB boot drive:
Nextcloud Actual Photoprism KitchenOwl SearXNG Katvia Paperless-ngx
Or should I just get new hardware? Regardless, I’d like to do something with this trusty ol business server.
Edit: Lenovo or Dell as the most cost-effective, reliable self-host server in your opinion?
ServeTheHome on Youtube has a great series called “Project TinyMiniMicro” which reviews commodity ultra-small business PCs from the standpoint of their usefulness as servers. I currently have 2 of these and will be replacing my 3rd server with one as well.
They’re great as long as you don’t need to shove a bunch of drives in them, low power, and often can be found used at dirt cheap prices as large corporations buy them by the thousands and then dump them used every time their IT plant undergoes a refresh.