Low-End Server build

[ThiccTapeman]

Budget (including currency): $700

Country: Sweden

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: The system will be used for XAMPP, Apache, MySQL.

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):
At the moment I don't have a part list, but i want something that is easily upgrade-able and have atleast 1tb of harddrive storage and a ssd or a m.2 for the windows installation

 

[mariushm]

What does low end mean to you?  For just  apache + php + mysql  you could just get a $100 refurbished computer. 

 

If you want rackable servers, you can get them for $200-300 

For example : https://unixsurplus.com/supermicro-1u-server-10-bay-sff-2x-xeon-e5-2667-v2-3-30ghz-128gb-2x-10gbase-t/

 

Downside it will consume power ... if you want something that consumes less power, get something like a ryzen 2400g or 5600g, 16-32 GB of memory, on a b450 chipset motherboard... it will idle at low wattage.

[Needfuldoer]

What's the use case for this server?

 

Is it going to host a public-facing website? If so, what kind of Internet plan is it going to live with? Are you colocating? Does it need to do anything that can't be done on a shared web hosting instance? (I really don't recommend self-hosting a public site unless you know what you're doing.)

 

If it's just for a local intranet site, you can do the job with just about anything. Used midrange rack servers are very affordable, rock-solid choices if you don't mind not having a warranty. (Just get new storage drives plus a cold spare if this is a production machine.)

 

If you just want to tinker for yourself, you can do that for free in a virtual machine running on whatever computer you already have. Even an old laptop or a NUC would be fine for that, if you want something you can leave on all the time without using a ton of power.

[ThiccTapeman]

1 hour ago, Needfuldoer said:

What's the use case for this server?

 

Is it going to host a public-facing website? If so, what kind of Internet plan is it going to live with? Are you colocating? Does it need to do anything that can't be done on a shared web hosting instance? (I really don't recommend self-hosting a public site unless you know what you're doing.)

 

If it's just for a local intranet site, you can do the job with just about anything. Used midrange rack servers are very affordable, rock-solid choices if you don't mind not having a warranty. (Just get new storage drives plus a cold spare if this is a production machine.)

 

If you just want to tinker for yourself, you can do that for free in a virtual machine running on whatever computer you already have. Even an old laptop or a NUC would be fine for that, if you want something you can leave on all the time without using a ton of power.

Thanks for your reply and sorry for my very brief description, but it will mostly be used to host private projects and project testing, and yes, ive used my current machine for a while now but now i want to host something that will be up all the time for me and my friends. (its a study helper thingy)

[ThiccTapeman]

2 hours ago, mariushm said:

What does low end mean to you?  For just  apache + php + mysql  you could just get a $100 refurbished computer. 

 

If you want rackable servers, you can get them for $200-300 

For example : https://unixsurplus.com/supermicro-1u-server-10-bay-sff-2x-xeon-e5-2667-v2-3-30ghz-128gb-2x-10gbase-t/

 

Downside it will consume power ... if you want something that consumes less power, get something like a ryzen 2400g or 5600g, 16-32 GB of memory, on a b450 chipset motherboard... it will idle at low wattage.

Yeah thats the downside of using rackable servers.. it will mostly be used to host private projects and project testing, and it will at most have like 5 people accessing it at the same time.