What is the best server for home?

Question

linux

Good afternoon.
I choose the server for the house. Needed for experiments, and in the future for the organization of a park of virtual machines.
So far, the choice has fallen on the following options:

1. MicroServer Gen 8 with Xeon 1220l v2
   
2. HP ProLiant ML350e G8 1xE5-2407V2/4GB Citylink
   

I look at prices on foreign online stores. These two options are almost the same in price, and oddly enough, the second option is slightly cheaper.
About MicroServer, probably, they already write on the fences and there is a lot of information about it. But it confuses me:

1. Old socket 1155. In which case, it's hard to find a replacement percentage. On Ebay they sell only used ones.
   
2. Limited RAM 16 GB
   

From the pros I see:

1. Dimensions
   
2. Quiet
   
3. Lots of information on the internet
   

In the second option, I was attracted by the fact that this is a full-fledged server and there are a lot of expansion slots in it. But it is impossible to find exhaustive information about it. Only specifications in online stores. Will it run quietly or will it hum like an airplane? And in general, I would like to know the impressions of the owners.
Are there any other options in the same budget (not self-collection)?

I really want to have something in the spirit of iLO like HPE. And in the end I came up with this option:
Supermicro X10SLM-F
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3
Thermaltake Core V21 Micro ATX Tower
Corsair VS-Series
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro PWM Rev.2
Kingston 8GB DDR3 KTD-PE316LV/8G

Are there any comments on this build?

Answer 1

Gather from pieces of iron from the nearest store:
1. Cheap
2. No problems with upgrade
3. For experiments, it's more than enough to
overpay for iron just because it is "server" - nonsense.
It's worth looking at the server if you need a "multi-processor" system, but for home experiments it's hard for me to come up with a script.

Answer 2

Build a regular PC with an integrated video core.
For educational purposes and for experiments, it is enough for the eyes. If something is not enough, you can always add. Be it RAM or HDD.

Answer 3

X10SDV-2C-TP8F 400 bucks
X10SDV-7TP8F 2600
Everything in between:
https://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeo...
Pros: low power consumption.
Lots of memory
Lots of cores
7 year warranty
Lots of sata and network ports.
For a test virtualization platform, it is unambiguous to take

Answer 4

If you want a server, then it’s better to look at opterons, they are very cheap in the markets and for virtual machines it’s the most because of the number of cores. For ten thousand you can collect a huge monster.
For example , here , 12 cores, 12GB of RAM. all for 130 greens.
If you collect just iron will be even tastier.

Answer 5

Raspberry is definitely a brother :)
https://www.raspberrypi.org/
silence is complete, smart as an electric broom and the size is a bank card :)

Answer 6

ML350 will definitely make much more noise than a microserver. And take up 4 times more space :-) Otherwise, it is superior to the microserver, of course.
I would build a mini-ITX server for a home virtualization platform. Processor Core i5-i7 6th generation, DDR4 memory. DDR4 has 16 GB modules, which allows you to plug two of them into mini-ITX, and get 32 ​​GB, while remaining in the microserver form factor. Perhaps, over time, modules of 32 GB will appear.

Answer 7

In my opinion, it is more practical to raise VDS in the cloud. Economical and quiet. Yes, you can opt out at any time.