Help me build a home server with a budget of €100/$109 (I live in Denmark)

I am thinking of buying it used how much ram who’d i need and what CPU

What I want to run on it

Nextcloud

RSS feed

transmission (if possible for the budget)

Maybe a few other small services

Photoprism (if possible for the budget)

Is this realistic for my budget?

Edit: Thanks alot for your really helpful comments

  • thayer@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I don’t think you’ll be able to build anything with €100, but you might be able to buy an old PC or laptop locally and use it as is. I’ve never run nextcloud myself, but from I’ve read it’ll be the most taxing service on your list. Everything seems pretty minimal, though I don’t know anything about Photoprism.

  • tootbrute@piefed.social
    2·
    6 months ago

    Start small. Find good used hardware first before thinking what services to run. I would start with an old desktop.

    Self-hosting is a journey, not a destination. No matter what you buy you’ll probably need to buy new hard drives. Used hard drives are a bit of a gamble.

    Where do people buy used systems in Denmark? Show us a few things you’re interested in and people can give you recommendations.

    Also, instead of Photoprism, I would suggest Immich. I was a huge supported of Photoprism for years (even donated money) but their development is too slow. Immich is way faster and has an android app. Anyways, give it a look.

    I think 8 GB of RAM is sufficient for all those services. I run them all with Yunohost and I rarely get over 4 GB RAM used.

    • pinguinebee@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      1

      I have looked at

      Lenovo Thinkcenter sælges. i5-3470 8gb ram 256gb HDD

      Price 44 US Dollars 40 Euros

      2

      I5 4570 Vpro 3.2 ghz 4 gb ram 500 GB Hdd. (3.5")

      Price

      46 Euros 51 US Dollars

      (It’s a bit more expensive and has less RAM, but thinking of that, if the other seller has sold)

  • Miku Luna \ she/it@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    The Raspberry Pi 5 might be good enough for your needs. The 8GB costs a bit less than 100€ without any accessories at the danish reseller, so it fits in your budget. I don’t know if it’s good enough for all your services.

  • JonnyJaap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    If you want to start try to find something used on DBA, like an old laptop. If you are an student, maybe someone in your class upgrades their laptop and you can get it cheap. (Best a laptop where you can remove the battery, plus you need to change a setting so it doesn’t go in standby when closing the lit)

    You can add an external hard disk for nextcloud data.

    My first home server was an raspberry pi, it’s not great for nextcloud, you need to disable all preview image, and the UI might still be slow. Untop using an microSD card for the OS might randomly break (happens to me, SanDisk).

    My second server was my old laptop, I used an laptop with i3 from like 2013 as server for a long long time.

    Best thing I can recommend is to not rush and get the first best thing, try to look for a good deal. Start small and you can always increase your server in the future.

    Wish you the best.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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  • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Does budget include storage? Tight budget without storage, even tighter with…

    If power usage not a concern then used x86/x64 gear is probably the way to go. Surplus gear (corporate, university…) possibly an option for you. That’s a very tight budget though, so I don’t think it really gives you the luxury of choosing specs unfortunately. That said: I might go fot the best bones/least RAM/storage if you think you might upgrade it down the road. 4GB RAM with an upgrade path to 32 is preferable to 8GB non-upgradable IMHO. Likewise, 500GB spinny disk with extra bays and an NVME slot is nicer than 500GB SSD with no upgrade path. Again… really tight budget so this may all be out of the question.

    I’m a fan of low power gear, so I’d recommend something like a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB, or another SBC (I just grabbed an Orange Pi 5 Plus and I like it so far — NVME, 16GB RAM, dual NIC). However these will be out of your budget, especially once you add case, power supply, and storage.

    Good luck!

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    6 months ago

    For that low of a budget I’d go look for used desktops to run - which is exactly what I did to get started .

    Then raspberry pis

    If you can go up further I’ve really enjoyed the beelink computers as tiny servers