Re: self hosting hardware

[Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>]

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2017-07-12 11:06 GMT+02:00 Solène Rapenne <solene@perso.pw>:

> 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)
>


Ok, no exotic hardware

Thanks, Solène !

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