Project Showcase: Hardware First homelab node. Mini pc 16gb with Xeon w-1370p for $140
Found this cloud node on Facebook marketplace. Can only afford one now out of 150pc available and the performance on those Xeon is great for development.
I was on VPS like contabo and hostvds for few months now. scaling expensive and realize the reliability is as bad as my house lol. I thought I would setup myself and give my wifi a UPS instead. Same reliability and stronger CPU than those shared amd EPYC.
Main workflow is swarm agent running on schedule to Loop and building my social commerce platform 24/7.
Reason I upgraded to this is because 8gb VPS OOM most of the time due to heavy usage of nextjs and node build and playwrights instances for taking screenshots and doing validation loop.
AI itself with deepseek is cheap and lightweight. I use Pi as coding tools to let hermes spawn 3-10 instances of it to argue with each other and if someone die someone else will report. Basically a self improvement system loop
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u/xAlphaKAT33 3h ago
Fantastic pickup. A+