Comment by ๐Ÿš€ SavaRocks

Re: "Question: I have a variety of older e-waste machine that I'โ€ฆ"

In: s/homelab

if you have multiple machines consider making them a HA cluster with docker swarm or, even better, K3S

๐Ÿš€ SavaRocks

2025-11-23 ยท 5 months ago

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๐ŸŒฒ Half_Elf_Monk [OP] ยท Nov 26 at 20:38:

@SavaRocks - that looks interesting, but probably introductes more points of failure than I'm able to navigate at present. Thanks though.

@xavi - oooh... that looks interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks!

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๐ŸŒฒ Half_Elf_Monk:

Question: I have a variety of older e-waste machine that I've rescued and held on to. I'm interesting in running some kind of homelab (probably a nextcloud instance, or some kind of shared drive for all the devices in the half_elf_monastery. What should I be looking for in hardware? Should I prioritize the best processor? Or the most capacity for storage expansion? Lowest power consumption? Is form factor a consideration at all (i.e., laptop vs. desktop vs. server-rack? Those with experience...

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