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I'm trying to start out self-hosting and was looking for some good servers. I have a budget of ~100 USD and am in the US. I was initially going to get some type of raspberry pi but they seem to always be sold out here

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That depends on what you're wanting to do with it. If you're just playing around rn I'd almost recommend seeing if you can get an older desktop and mess around with virtualization/containers that way.

Advantage: a desktop machine is gonna be more expandable than a single board computer and easier to migrate when you have the money for something with more power.