Hello all.
I've recently got more into networking / servers with the building of a 12th gen intel NAS / server box. Currently running plex, palworld server, wireguard, home assistant and other services.
It's been a fun experience and learnt a lot about linux / servers and general networking.
Now i wish to expand a bit further and am looking at getting some rackmount kit just to make a cheapo test bed for messing about.
I'm in the fortunate situation of not paying for power at where my kit will live as ive heard this is the biggest downfall with using old kit.
So what im asking is recomendations to look for 2nd hand gear that would suit my purpose.
Looking for say a small rack, a switch, something to act as a opnsense router and a workload multicore server to run say game servers and VM's.
Thanks !
I've recently got more into networking / servers with the building of a 12th gen intel NAS / server box. Currently running plex, palworld server, wireguard, home assistant and other services.
It's been a fun experience and learnt a lot about linux / servers and general networking.
Now i wish to expand a bit further and am looking at getting some rackmount kit just to make a cheapo test bed for messing about.
I'm in the fortunate situation of not paying for power at where my kit will live as ive heard this is the biggest downfall with using old kit.
So what im asking is recomendations to look for 2nd hand gear that would suit my purpose.
Looking for say a small rack, a switch, something to act as a opnsense router and a workload multicore server to run say game servers and VM's.
Thanks !