Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 12:43:57PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > 2. If you have any expectation of providing any services - even > > something as basic as hosting an email list, you can easily swamp a > > desktop/laptop class machine. You probably want to look at something > > Xeon based. > > I have never, ever needed something Xeon based, and I've provided basic > services on low-spec VPSes for a very long time.
We ran thousand-person mailing lists on a microVAX 3500 with a then-astonishing 32MB of RAM and an 11 MHz CPU. A Raspberry Pi 4b has much more compute power, faster storage, and 50-100x faster networking, to go with 200x the RAM. For learning about running servers and doing non-commercial work, Pis and old desktops and laptops are excellent machines. -dsr-
