Cheap dedicated server

Throrik said:
I'd grab a cheap as chips n100 or n105 minipc and install FreeBSD on it. Otherwise you're generally going to be having to spend a decent amount to run something bare metal, bear in mind most providers like Vultr who have a FreeBSD offering are running it via a virtualisation layer which is never gonna be amazing, unless you go for bare metal which is extremely costly. N100 won't take up any more space, is pretty much silent and will run Bhyve perfectly. Case in point, it's running in my homelab at the moment.
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I'm not sure if I am allowed to link it here because OCUK sell similar things but are you talking about something with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD for £140?
 
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Cromulent said:
I'm not sure if I am allowed to link it here because OCUK sell similar things but are you talking about something with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD for £140?
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Yep, Beelink MINI-S12 Mini is the model I got with those sorts of specs, I don't think OcUK sell low-spec mini pcs but they're a quick search engine away anyway.
 
Cromulent said:
Problem with that is I live in a shared house so everything needs to fit in a single room. If I had the space I'd definitely get a PC.
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I've just bought a NUC sized PC to use as a home server for running source control, CI/CD jobs etc.

8 cores 16 threads, 32gb ram, and now 2.5tb of NVMe. Mentioned on the other thread about mini PCs.

Unless you desperately need 3.5" mechanical drives I don't see the point in anything larger than one of these mini PC sized devices, and even then, I'd rather have a separate NAS that's just responsible for the storage.
 
mid_gen said:
I've just bought a NUC sized PC to use as a home server for running source control, CI/CD jobs etc.

8 cores 16 threads, 32gb ram, and now 2.5tb of NVMe. Mentioned on the other thread about mini PCs.

Unless you desperately need 3.5" mechanical drives I don't see the point in anything larger than one of these mini PC sized devices, and even then, I'd rather have a separate NAS that's just responsible for the storage.
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I just went looking in the small form factor forum and saw you got the Bosgame P4 which looks good to me. Will certainly be able to handle more than the one I was looking at.
 
Don't know if you decided to get a mini PC instead but just in case you're still looking for dedicated servers the sale has started on OVH. They quite often have upgrades beyond the listed spec too, just picked up a LE-B: E3-1270v6, 64GB RAM, 2x 2TB NVMe £10/mo.
 
PaulM said:
Don't know if you decided to get a mini PC instead but just in case you're still looking for dedicated servers the sale has started on OVH. They quite often have upgrades beyond the listed spec too, just picked up a LE-B: E3-1270v6, 64GB RAM, 2x 2TB NVMe £10/mo.
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Which version of server is this? I can't find anything like this.


**NVM Kimsufi branded
 
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PaulM said:
Don't know if you decided to get a mini PC instead but just in case you're still looking for dedicated servers the sale has started on OVH. They quite often have upgrades beyond the listed spec too, just picked up a LE-B: E3-1270v6, 64GB RAM, 2x 2TB NVMe £10/mo.
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I did get a mini PC but I think I'll get this deal as well. Thank you very much.
 
You don't /need/ IPMI if you use a check KVM like JetKVM... any mini-pc will do and you can trash it and recover from disasters easily enough. Hetzner is nice, but no KVM and the "console access" is expensive, so not a good option if you plan to wipe and reinstall often... as you will have zero access to it if the network goes down.
 
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