Just for fun and for profit I'm preparing a new physical setup to be deployed in some rack not to far from my home. The first step was selecting hardware. I still have a Proliant ML350 on the attic, but figured it was too big to actually deploy …
There has always been some testing going on at home, but with the introduction of an extra firewall, there will be a separate network for tinkering and trials at home.
First I decided to buy an APU2 board from PC Engines. Although the APU first generation I had got fried …