I want to set up a home server and take advantage of everything it can offer, specialty privacy.
Raspberry PI, no matter the version, are all quite expensive here in Brazil, so that’s off the table. I’ll go for a regular desktop. But the the requirements for a server that “does it all” remains a mystery to me.
What specs do you guys recommend?
a potato computer can be a server if the workload is light enough.
i had a core 2 duo era pentium with 2gb of ram as a server once and it did the job. minecraft server for 6 people + pihole + file server.
core 2 duos are dime a dozen in brazil and are probably more powerful than some older RPIs. you can probably get something newer too.
x86 will decimate most arm chips
The new stuff is a bit more debatable but old stuff it isn’t even a fight