Re: self hosting hardware

[Solène Rapenne]

Je 2017-07-12 09:19, Catonano skribis:

> In the next autumn/winter I would like to try to set up a self hosting 
> solution
>
> And I'd love it to be GuixSD based
>
> I need some help with selecting the hardware that fits the goal
> Hardware is not exactly my thing
>
> A Beaglebone board (or equivalent) ? An Intel NUC (or equivalent) ?
>
> It should probably serve a collection of static files over https, have 
> a smtp server and an IRC bouncher.
>
> Optionally I'd like it to run some bittorrent or rsync or synchthing or 
> ipfs or DAT and a Gnunet node.
>
> I'd love to be able to attach some external hard drives to it, both 
> traditionl hard drives and SSDs.
>
> In the last few years the ADSL that serves my apartment has improved 
> dramatically
>
> It used to be 300 Kb/s in upload for years
>
> Now it's around 19 Mb/s
>
> The optic fiber cord reached the cabinet just aside the building main 
> entrance
>
> The copper fragment is now only a few meters.
>
> So I could use some hardware suggestions to set up such a solution 
> based on GuixSD
>
> It has to be cheap AND moderate in electricity consumption, possibly 
> like a home router (or something)
>
> Thanks for any hint

Hello,

if you have some space and you are not afraid by noise, I would go for a 
homemade computer.
That would allow you to add network cards if you need and lot of hard 
drives.

If you go for a NUC or a mini-itx computer, that will not allow you to 
upgrade, and you may be limited to
1x 2.5" disk + 1x SSD in m3 format.

You just need :

- a processor (pentium/celeron, cheap and works well, and won't consume 
much)
- hard drive
- motherboard (you can by a cheap motherboard, look at the number of 
SATA ports)
- case (cheapest possible)
- power supply (buy a good one but not with a lot of power, 80+ 
standards can help to choose)
- 2x memory (2/4/8 Gb as you want)