I would like to run a home server so I can use it as a backup, some small static website and serve a photo gallery(about 2TB of photo takes by iphone) it's a Golang app.
So nothing crazy, just for family purpose since I'm moving away from facebook.
Anyone know some cheap server that isn't too noisy and consume a lot of power? How about just using a cheap old laptop? Did anyone try these out?
But if you must, any desktop PC will do - just make sure you have reliable storage, multiple SSDs in RAID 1 (or similar that allows multiple disks to die).
A laptop would work but you’ve got the issue of having a single disk (an external one over USB doesn’t cut it) as well as unreliable components - it might die after running 24/7 for a few months, most likely due to bad thermal design.
You’ll also need to have a decent network connection, with IPv6 and a separate IPv4 for the server so it can be reached from the outside without any NAT nonsense, and potentially an UPS so a power cut doesn’t make all your services unavailable and potentially corrupt your data.
They also support golang https://www.synology.com/en-uk/releaseNote/Docker?model=DS36...
Version: 1.11.2-0325
(2017-04-13)
What's new
Upgraded Golang to version 1.8.
Supports IPv6 configuration.
Enhanced the stability of Docker daemon.I've seen a couple, but often they were expensive and a bit beefier than what I wanted to pay for.