Hi all,
I have been lurking here on and off for a few months. I even created an account and forgot about it.
I have been reading and doing some basic computer enthusiast stuff for years on and off and decided over the last year to automate my home with openhab in a RPI. After I learned a little on that I bought a dell optiplex pretty cheaply to run services on and have been playing with that for around a month now. I installed a unifi network and bought a 4 post rack. It's time to add to the stack and move off of the optiplex onto a server and try VM or dockers. Mostly as entertainment and a learning experience. I've been fortunate that I found a good group of people to help me root cause problems and then I've found the answer online for ubuntu server, my first linux experience. Not nearly as frustrating as I had imagined, seems a little daunting to just pick up with no experience, but a little persistence and reading gets you through.
I was looking for some suggestions on a potential first server. It'll run a few services: openhab, unifi controller, and grafana/influxdb ATM. I want to move the optiplex to pfSense duty once those are running. I have been looking and it looks like a Dell R210ii w/ xeon 1240 V2 and 32 GB Ram will do a pretty good job for me and give me enough hardware to try out new things as I learn or try different stuff. So any suggestions on the hardware decision or alternatives are defiantly welcome. I've looked a few options listed here as well and thought about those but can't really decide if I need that much extra server laying around. Hard to know since I have limited experience.
Any input is appreciated.
Thanks
Jared
I have been lurking here on and off for a few months. I even created an account and forgot about it.
I have been reading and doing some basic computer enthusiast stuff for years on and off and decided over the last year to automate my home with openhab in a RPI. After I learned a little on that I bought a dell optiplex pretty cheaply to run services on and have been playing with that for around a month now. I installed a unifi network and bought a 4 post rack. It's time to add to the stack and move off of the optiplex onto a server and try VM or dockers. Mostly as entertainment and a learning experience. I've been fortunate that I found a good group of people to help me root cause problems and then I've found the answer online for ubuntu server, my first linux experience. Not nearly as frustrating as I had imagined, seems a little daunting to just pick up with no experience, but a little persistence and reading gets you through.
I was looking for some suggestions on a potential first server. It'll run a few services: openhab, unifi controller, and grafana/influxdb ATM. I want to move the optiplex to pfSense duty once those are running. I have been looking and it looks like a Dell R210ii w/ xeon 1240 V2 and 32 GB Ram will do a pretty good job for me and give me enough hardware to try out new things as I learn or try different stuff. So any suggestions on the hardware decision or alternatives are defiantly welcome. I've looked a few options listed here as well and thought about those but can't really decide if I need that much extra server laying around. Hard to know since I have limited experience.
Any input is appreciated.
Thanks
Jared