Is it worth installing openstack on 1 server?

Question

Server equipment

Give advice people.
I have a micro instance on amazon aws but the free tier ended last month.
There are a couple of dead projects hanging on the instance, gitlab + ci for testing two working projects + personal website.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to pay $ 30 for an instance, you can buy for the same money at the henzer auction a server on board with 16-32 RAM 6 TB of space and with CPU-B 5-8k
Does it make sense to put on 1 machine with the above characteristics of OpenStack / CloudStack and Will virtual machines handle 5-7 projects like the same gitlab and 10-20 simple sites?

Answer 1

Open stack - no. Easier than proxmox (just unscrew openvz from there and install a normal kernel).
Well, yes, at the auction you will buy a server with SATA-II disks, they are slow in terms of IOPS.

Answer 2

openstack is stupid to put there, you need at least five machines to look at.
your choice proxmox

Answer 3

Just for your tasks - Citrix XenServer.
For management, there is a GUI client that is installed on Windows. openxenmanager allows you to run the client under Linux.
As for the piece of iron - it is better to rent from any DC.

Answer 4

proxmox is the right choice. But there is one BUT. SATA drives can be a surprise for parallel operations. And with the reliability of the auction servers, not everything is good (but there is a lot of memory and disks). It may be worth considering renting one or more virtual machines from DigitalOcean - for $30 you can buy three gigabytes of memory each. It seems a little, but it may be enough for your purposes. Or maybe one is enough.