Help me build a home server with a budget of €100/$109 (I live in Denmark)

I am thinking of buying it used how much ram who’d i need and what CPU

What I want to run on it

Nextcloud

RSS feed

transmission (if possible for the budget)

Maybe a few other small services

Photoprism (if possible for the budget)

Is this realistic for my budget?

Edit: Thanks alot for your really helpful comments

  • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Everything you want is definitely possible for the budget.

    I used an old I5 laptop with 4GB of RAM for a year or two. If you need a lot of storage, an old HDD will be fine usually. A raspberry pi 4 or 5 will be slower, but would still work, but if Norway prices are anything like belgium, an old I7 laptop sips power and will save money in electric costs

    A few tips:

    • Run nextcloud all-in-one or spend some time optimizing nextcloud. It will help performance a lot

    • Unless you are a serious photographer, use Immich, 100%. Immich is a google photos replacement that has a bunch of good user features like accounts and good security and sharing that photoprism just doesn’t. Photoprism is really geared towards professional photographers.

    • transmission + wireguard container for a VPN is the way to go …

    • radarr/sonarr/lidarr & prowlarr are good to use with transmission