I have an early 2000s PC (pre-SATA) with 512MB RAM (I’d love to tell you about the CPU, but its under a cooler that isn’t going anywhere) that’s been sitting in closets for about 15 years. Assuming I’m willing to buy into it, can something like that reasonably host the following simultaneously on a 40GB boot drive:

Nextcloud Actual Photoprism KitchenOwl SearXNG Katvia Paperless-ngx

Or should I just get new hardware? Regardless, I’d like to do something with this trusty ol business server.

Edit: Lenovo or Dell as the most cost-effective, reliable self-host server in your opinion?

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    1 year ago

    Just a heads up that you might find it easier to learn a bit of the lingo than to try to translate all the entry-level stuff from linux to windows.

    If you do figure it out though, you should document the process and put it up somewhere.

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      1 year ago

      Best place to learn the basic Linux I’d need to get this off the ground?

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        1 year ago

        The best projects will have well written documentation that steps you through exactly what to do.

        I started off not knowing anything about hosting and now I run like 6 services.