2017-07-12 11:06 GMT+02:00 Solène Rapenne <[email protected]>: > 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 !
