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If your building a profesional home network on a budget and want to get the best equipment possible. I get it. That was me not to long ago.

Why buy a Homelab when I could use the Cloud?

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Everyone says that you should host your data on the cloud, that it cost less and is easy to use. For most people this is true.

Most people will never see or own an enterprise server. The majority of users needs can all be solved by hosting data in the cloud.

But... for those of you that want a home server... I understand and Welcome!

Lets take a look at the different types of servers

Your options are to buy a tower server, a rack server, or a super powerful blade server. Take a look at the pros and cons of each below.

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  • Tower Server
    • $500 - 4000
    • Pros
    • Scalability and ease of upgrade
    • Cost-effective
    • Cools easily
    • Con
    • Not Scaleable
    • Provides a basic level of performance
    • Complicated cable management
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  • Rack Server
    • $100 - 20,000
    • Pros
    • Failure containment
    • Simplified cable management
    • Cost-effective
    • Con
    • Power usage
    • Maintenance
    • Noisy
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  • Blade Server
    • $5,000 - 68,000
    • Pros
    • Load balancing and failover
    • Centralized management
    • Size and form-factor
    • Con
    • Expensive configuration
    • HVAC
    • Noisy

    Rack Servers have millions of differnent models and configurations.

    Kit 1.0 targets the gap between $100,000 dollar rack system and $100 dollar tower and micro servers. Kit 1.0 offers the best proformace for price delta in the 2k - 5k price range.

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    Kit 1.0 is built with HP DL360 G8 1U LFF rack servers

    The thin 1U HP Proliant DL360p G8 12-Core Server 2x E5-2667 2.9GHz 96GB-8 LFF packs a powerful proformance into a small frame. 4 WD Red 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive SATA 64MB Cache 3.5. offer 16TB of storage space.

    The secret to Kits price delta is the 1U LFF format. The 3.5 drives allows for more storage for less cost compared to a 2.5 SFF. The 1U reduces the size of the machine while keeping the processing power of a 2u rack server.

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    List of comparable 1u servers from IT companies.

    Image Server Why Kit Cost
    hp server image Refurbished: ProLiant DL360 Gen9 Server LFF Superior SAS Custom Server

    Kit has more RAM and HD storage then this machine.

    		 $4,499.00
    First image HP ProLiant DL360p G8 697493-S01 1U Rack Server - 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2650 2GHz

    Kit has more GB of RAM, Cores, and HD Storage then this machine.

    		 $4,204.24
    First image HP 748302-S01 PROLIANT DL360P G8 S-BUY- 2X XEON 10-CORE E5-2690V2/ 3.0GHZ, 32GB DDR3 RAM

    Kit has more GB of RAM, Cores, and HD Storage then this machine.

    		 $2,920.00

    How much will it cost to build Kit?

    Build Kit_1.0 for under $1999.00!

    For the cost of one server you can get all the components in the Kit_1.0 Homelab.

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