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So I formulated a thought with a single brain cell!
I wonder how many people here have servers at home
(IMG:[i.imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com/JhYvJTX.png)

There's my setup. Any questions just ask!

Total cost? Power bill? What do you run? Where do you get your hardware?

The single cable dangling kinda annoys me a bit lol

It's so pretty but I agree what your power bill look like and how are you keeping it cool my bother an I had a Hell of a time figuring out that part for our first rack

There are some thoughts / questions that always come when I see this kind of set ups.

How much power does it take?
Are 2.5 disks really worth using? They seem to have small space or high price compared to 3.5 disks.
Do you have damaged hearing from fans?

And... why? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) At some point it does not seem worth.

The single cable dangling kinda annoys me a bit lol

A lone dangling cable in home rack pictures is usually for internet. Historically attached to DSL or cable modem, because home rack size is in opposite proportion to internet speed. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

So I formulated a thought with a single brain cell!
I wonder how many people here have servers at home

I used to in one house long ago. Ran the broadband connection to the sever room and then had every room networked with multiple Ethernet ports. Also used it for a while for crypto mining way back.

Wifi 6 and above seem to work as well as I need to network now though.

I have some Raspberry Pi's that I got for free, a mini PC as router and a regular PC. Both PCs run Proxmox on bare metal and for routing I use OpenWrt in a VM. I mostly use archival software like TubeArchivist, LANraragi and ArchiveBox.

And... why? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) At some point it does not seem worth.

The most basic usecase is torrenting. You are way better off having a separate machine just for that so you could ratelimit it on the router level instead of trusting the torrent client to properly manage itself while fighting over machine resources with the browser.
What is a point measure for worth? Buying a specialized vendor-locked device is trading off initial cost for paying more down the line, which is never worth it if you can afford a server. And home server never gets to the scale for cloud infra (and its bills).