My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost(joekarlsson.com)
12 points by joekarlsson | 7 comments
A personal blog post by Joe Karlsson reviewing his homelab two years on, detailing each upgrade and its cost.
#servers on Hacker News
11 stories tagged servers, newest first.
Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)(computerworld.com)
171 points by doener | 92 comments
Computerworld news article from 2017 about a server that has run continuously since 1993 and is about to be retired.
Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour(explorer.oxide.computer)
454 points by darthcloud | 196 comments
Oxide Computer Company's interactive 3D explorer offering a guided tour of its fully integrated rack-scale cloud computer.
Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers(colaptop.pages.dev)
358 points by argentum47 | 212 comments
Landing page for CoLaptop, an Amsterdam-based service offering colocation of old laptops as always-online servers in US and European datacenters with Hetzner.
%CPU utilization is a lie(brendanlong.com)
396 points by BrendanLong | 135 comments
Blog post by Brendan Long arguing that %CPU utilization reported by tools like top misrepresents how close servers are to their actual capacity limits.
My Self-Hosting Setup(codecaptured.com)
513 points by mirdaki | 178 comments
A personal blog post from the Code Captured blog, dated July 7, 2025, describing the author's self-hosting setup.
A server that wasn't meant to exist(it-notes.dragas.net)
377 points by jaypatelani | 121 comments
A post on the IT Notes blog recounting the story of a server that was never supposed to exist.
Why we use our own hardware(fastmail.com)
780 points by nmjenkins | 428 comments
Fastmail blog post by founder and CTO Rob Mueller explaining why the company runs its own hardware instead of using public cloud providers.
Home Lab Beginners guide(linuxblog.io)
561 points by ashitlerferad | 351 comments
A blog post on linuxblog.io by Hayden James giving a beginner's guide to choosing hardware for a home lab.
The Cloud Computer(oxide.computer)
1796 points by CathalMullan | 924 comments
Oxide Computer blog post by CTO Bryan Cantrill announcing general availability of its commercial cloud computer rack and a $44M Series A financing.
How I run my servers (2022)(blog.wesleyac.com)
345 points by ingve | 147 comments
Wesley Aptekar-Cassels's 2022 blog post describing how he runs and deploys his own server software on VMs instead of cloud services.