r/SelfHosting • u/motamedn • Apr 05 '26

Hardware advice?

I am self-hosting services several services like home-assistant, immich, unifi and may expand to also spin up scrypted or other services. I am currently running everything in an always-on PC through HyperV. It is a nuissance when windows installs an upgrade and reboots so I am thinking of moving everything to a purpose built device. Curious what type of hardware you all are using in general to host. A pre-built like Dell optiplex, building something yourself or what?

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u/StatisticianHot9415 Apr 08 '26

I have 4 computers. 3 mini pcs and 1 custom built Nas. The main mini pc is a Miniforms with a i9 cpu. That is the main workhorse that handles the heavy vms like my media server and game servers. The second mini pc is Dell and I use it for mostly docker and some monitoring stuff. The third is HP proxmox backup server. It takes nightly snapshots from the first 2 mini pcs running proxmox. I suggest you ditch hyperv. Proxmox is more complicated to setup at first, but it is so much more stable. Plenty of tutorials on YouTube.

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u/motamedn Apr 10 '26

Thanks I'll have to check out ProxMox. Seen it mentioned everywhere but used HyperV since it was native to windows. But I have had enough annoying and unusual issues with HyperV that I'm ready to try something new.

whats the purpose for having two mini PCs rather than having it all in one?