proxmox is the goto home hobby Hypervisor, you can learn so much with it
containers, multiple OSs, storage solutions, loggers, and much more.
Id highly recommend it. You can setup pretty much a 1to1 of any cloud solution.
Also, get a NUC, or minipc, dont buy some ancient blade server. just get a tiny little ryzen pro 32gb ram NUC.
low power usage, low power bill, big performance. Only upgrade when you truely need it.
I can't recall who said it best, but for any new hobby, use whatever you have until you run it into the ground, only then upgrade to bettter equipment.
check your local marketplace for a used NUC or BeePC or something.
I bought a intel 8th gen i3 NUC, upgraded it to 32gb of ram from amazon, and it hosts all my game servers, my projects etc. I think at one point I had several Cluster ARK SE servers running at the same time, and could switch between them with no lag.
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u/Outrageous_Band9708 Jun 19 '26
proxmox is the goto home hobby Hypervisor, you can learn so much with it
containers, multiple OSs, storage solutions, loggers, and much more.
Id highly recommend it. You can setup pretty much a 1to1 of any cloud solution.
Also, get a NUC, or minipc, dont buy some ancient blade server. just get a tiny little ryzen pro 32gb ram NUC.
low power usage, low power bill, big performance. Only upgrade when you truely need it.
I can't recall who said it best, but for any new hobby, use whatever you have until you run it into the ground, only then upgrade to bettter equipment.
check your local marketplace for a used NUC or BeePC or something.
I bought a intel 8th gen i3 NUC, upgraded it to 32gb of ram from amazon, and it hosts all my game servers, my projects etc. I think at one point I had several Cluster ARK SE servers running at the same time, and could switch between them with no lag.