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Primarily a VPN server, which is a necessity for me. This is very interesting, thanks. Can you elaborate a bit, and perhaps draw a topology example? I've never set up VLANs but I am always eager to learn something new.

I am reshaping a rural home with relatively low bandwidth (the internet provider can only supply 100Mbit/s). Does it make sense to route the WAN through a virtual pfSense box (Hyper-V) on a Win11 NUC13Anki host? Or is the performance going to be horrible? I should mention that the NUC13Anki...

alright, this is what happened to power consumpion when I moved from the Supermicro (Windows Server, DNS and DHCP servers, backup software running at night) to the NUC13anki7 (windows 11, IIS, Hyper-V with one guest Windows11 running with 20GB and a small guest linux machine running Asterisk)...

Wonderful, many thanks. One more question: how would that compare energy-wise (and performance-wise) to a NUC13ANKi7? As discussed above, I won't get around opening the box and replacing some components, hence the DIY aspect becomes almost irrelevant.

ok, the offer was: ESPRIMO G9013 CE I7-13700T 16GB 512GB SSD WIFI/BT W11P for ca. 1300 CHF. I would have to expand both RAM and SSD though, and this kind of voids the idea of not bothering with a custom build...

Which NUC would you recommend? I had many years ago one of the first Intel Atoms running Asterisk, and the user experience was really bad. But the current NUC generation is certainly much more powerful, right? I am not keen on building the whole thing from scratch, but if it's just about...

ah, ok, here is a screenshot.

Alright, I think that this one might do. I may add a large SSD and RAM (at least 64GB, perhaps more). I cannot find anything about its idle consumption though; what are your predictions? many thanks again for all your help!

I have 64GB on my current Supermicro (6 yrs old, never ever crashed!). It may be overkill though, I could do with 32 GB I guess.

Also, how much does RAM affect power consumption? Running VMs, which is crucial to my use case, requires significant RAM...

Dankeschön again for your immediate and competent response. In addition to the power considerations, I will heed your advice to go x64 because of the ample software choice. My hardware budget is quite generous; what I want is to save energy (and hassle) instead. Hence, I'd rather not go for a...

Thank you everybody for your competent and helpful advice! In the meantime, I have measured the consumption of my SuperMicro Windows Server, and it's whopping 70W average!!! (see graph). I definitely need something less power hungry. I would opt for the following filters: Must run Windows 11...

that's very interesting and useful, thanks!

For the past 8 years, I've had a nice Supermicro Windows Server in my basement, hosting networking stuff (VPN, DHCP, DNS, etc.), a bunch of linux virtual machines for Asterisk and various home-automation software, and lots of space for file storage. However, things have changed. For one thing...

Obviously I had the same thoughts as you all describe. The killer criterion is that hardly any current consumer device can accomodate fiber. On the other hand, fiber-to-copper converters go for <$50, which is little money in the big scheme of things - but they also add complexity, bulk, and...