Hello Everyone,
Am Atharva from India looking to build a home server. My budget is ~300$ (ik its less but cant exceed above that)
Right now I have 2 systems conected to a public IP on which I run multiple stuff
1) Main PC
Processor: I5 8400
RAM: 16GB
SSD: 125 GB
HDD: No (using SMB from my server for storage)
Motherboard: Asus B360M-A
on above system I run cirital sites or projects which are very imp to my using hyper-V on Windows 10 Pro
2) Old PC (turned into server builted in 2007, running 24*7 as a server since December 2018)
Processor: Intel Dual Core Due 2 E8500 3.16Ghz
Board: Zebronics G31 chipset
RAM : 4GB DDR2 (As my board and G31 supports 4GB at max, i think)
SSD: 125 GB Boot drive for Ubuntu Server
HDD: 2.5" Laptop HDD 1TB
TP-Link Gig NIC (as on board is 100 mbps)
on above build I run multiple containers as I design NodeJs Microservices Stuff for projct. RN I am able to run almost 13-15 containers at a time without issues on the server but as its too old I'm unsure about its remaining lile and stability hence if something is very imp to host then I simply create a VM of 8 GB RAM on hyper-V and run on mail PC.
This peaks my processor (I5-8400) to ~4GHz with 100% utilization as I use that PC for work simultaniously.
What I want:
system that is well is budget (at least board, RAM, processor)
can run multiple VMs and containers
wont be out of date soon (I cant afford Xeon as I am looking for consumer hardware)
Will be cherry on top if it can run VMware ESXI out of box
I guess I need to have more thread count to make it possible ...
It will be great if someone can help me out ....................