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Converting old or refurbished computers into servers has been my modus operandi for a very, very long time, both at work and at home. youtube.com/watch?v=zPmqbtKwtgw
On twitter.com Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:14:51 GMT Mood 0

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Back when we decommissioned a Pentium Pro Compaq ProLiant server that had been running NT4 domain controller and Exchange roles, I loaded FreeBSD on that and turned it into a log collector and home base for a ton of network tools.
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My current servers at home are refurbished or scratch and dent Dell SFF or #TinyMiniMicro desktops running ESXi. I picked up an Apple refurbished mac Mini Core i3 and that's running local network backup and one of my Windows 10 VMs.
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A while back, I turned a dual P4 Xeon workstation into my primary file server, then turned that into an application server when I ran out of storage space. Old PCs are your friends, especially when you're starting up or bolstering a "home lab".
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