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The best homelab investment I made wasn't expensive—it was just simple
['Nick Lewis', 'Patrick Campanale']
How-To Geek
While I have some pretty powerful servers in my homelab, my most important and useful server does just one thing: manages my network.
Nginx Proxy Manager, WireGuard, and Pi-hole don't need a lot of horsepowerThey run perfectly fine on my Pi 4 BCredit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Sydney Louw Butler/How-To GeekClose Credit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Patrick Campanale / How-To GeekCredit: Sydney Louw Butler/How-To GeekI run a lot of services in my house, and I have a lot of servers running, too.
I have multiple NAS servers in my homelab, but they all require downtime for one reason or another.
So, I went with a Pi for network services to keep my network online even when I'm performing maintenance on other hardware.
But, the most important server in all of my homelab is a little Raspberry Pi with 1GB of RAM.