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WARNING: Do not proceed further if you are trying to save money.

That said, I'm looking to put together a small home networking setup. Every time I search about a related topic I get lost in a rabbit hole and am completely paralysed with options. So started this thread to learn about having your own homelab esp. in our local context and not go bankrupt.

I've seen veterans here posting on different related topics. So as a beginning, please post your homelab setups (in detail), what hardware you run, what services you self-host/run, where all do you procure parts, do you make money with it or benefit professionally or is it just a hobby, when did you get into this etc
 
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These guys are offering budget homelab cases, they can modify it as per request too.
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I bought a used Dell Optiplex 3060 SFF PC with Core i3, 16 GB ram and 512 GB SSD storage. I am running several docker containers on it with Debian 12 as host. It costed my around 14k.

As your 1st foray into self hosting, you can try this.
 
The best option to get started is to get 8th or 9th gen intel cpu tiny machines from Dell, HP or Lenovo(all refurbished)
These can support 32Gb or 64GB RAM, nvme and Sata SSD, Lenovo also support PCie expansion.

These are the best and you can get 2-3 machines in 30-40k which would be sufficient to start setup with proxmox cluster or Linux VMs
 
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