They do get released. I need a source of high quality rips for the NAS to stream from.

Still no blu ray last time I checked.

Nobody is using MMF these days even for local runs. As to sfp, check https://fs.com and pick a matching pair that is cheapest. These days it makes sense to use 10G or 25G rather than 1G. Some people run 100G for their homelab, but even used it’s pricy and noisy.

I would look into thin clients and Lenovo etc. tiny PC for office on eBay. I run old low power low noise rackmount Supermicros which are nice but hard to find at low prices.

Factor in power bills and heat and noise into your calculations.

An L3 switch is a router. Though most of them don’t have enough resources to take a full BGP routing table, at wire speed.

Also opnsense, but on thin client.

Looks nice, thanks.

I hear you, but Proxmox does a great many more things than just run containers. Admittedly, many selfhosters won’t need these.

It’s a NUC so sufficiently poweful. Proxmox isn’t fat by any means. If you run your stuff in containers then Proxmox (I aways install it on top of Debian) is your hypervisor is your base system. You typically don’t install stuff on your hypervisor, though I do some very select things.

Proxmox with Debian containers.

Did you get it used? For how much? How is the noise level?

Genuinely happy to hear this.

You’re probably drawing about 400-450 W.

My current supplier rate is about 0.6 EUR/kWh. I make some 1/2 to 2/3 of my power myself, for a price that’s less than half of that.

How many W are you pulling, on the average? Or kWh per year.

My primary consideration is all the expensive storage filled up by vapid image macros. 80 GB goes a long way for just text.

Pictrs should have been an optional microservice by default. Commenting here to keep track of this thread since this is useful.

I’m only missing a hole in the wall to do the same – and I could be running a 2x 40G link!

But the switch idles at 80 W and a starting jet noise level, so the hole in the wall will wait.

YaCy indexes http content, so if your documents are all reachable via a http interface they can be indexed.