Choosing Your Requirements

The hardware that you need for your server depends on what you're hoping to use it for.  When you're running one or two services, a Raspberry Pi canwould beprobably usedsuffice, towhile hostrunning severalyour smallown personal cloud and media services likemight grocyrequire or home assistant, but would struggle to host multiple services.  Aa refurbished desktop couldcomputer. likely runSingle-board multiplecomputers services.and traditional desktops have slightly different install processes.  Media servers can require more processing power, such as a dedicated graphics card, as well as storage space for any digital media.