I’m considering setting up a home lab and truly self-hosting my own services. Unfortunately, my budget is limited to around $100-$150. I’m wondering if the HP Elitedesk mini PC is suitable for this purpose. I’m particularly looking at the HP Elitedesk 800 G3 or G5 models. Unfortunately, finding these devices in Dhaka has been challenging. So far, I’ve found a G3 on bikroy.com, but it comes with a 6th gen i7 CPU.

Edit: I ended up getting Elitedesk 800 G5 with i7 9th Gen CPU, 32 GB (Kingston) and 1 TB Nvme (a Chinese brand called Kingspec). I’ll get a new ssd later. The price was 35k BDT ($300 approx). The bios was locked. But I managed to unlock it by booting without cmos.

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  • Diurnambule@jlai.luEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ho you should look into setting up services with systemd socket. This solved my on demand issues. I made a script to generate the services and sockets automatically. It became really really fast to add a container which start ondemand

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      That sounds interesting but my services are mostly in lxc container with dynamically allocated dhcp addresses (I do not wish to maintain a list of static IPs)

      And that makes it hard to start them on demand based on incoming connection like you would an httpd process daemon.

      My services are only refferred to by hostnames, for instance vaultwarden.lan, but this address does not resolve when the LXC is offline. I guess I could make a static DNS entries in the local dns server and point those to a LXC container orchestrator to stop and start them as they are accessed.

      But also, just leaving them all running and ready to answer queries is, so much more convenient if I have the RAM for it.

      But I’m sure there are cases where this is the way to go, but I don’t know how to start LXC containers based on sockets without creating static leases and static dns entries, I really like how IP address and DNS names are completely automated on my network !