

Not sure where you are located OP but, eBay, CraigsList, Goodwill, local Refurb shops, befriend a local IT person…business are always throwing out decent stuff. Just stay away from enterprise equipment. In my locale there are ‘flea-markets’, FaceBook Marketplace. @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world suggested a Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro, and if you do some dilligent searching of Amazon, you can find some good deals on Used or Refurb computers.


I did a little passive research on the Dell OptiPlex 3050 Micro that @DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world recommended. For my locale you could run that 24/7 for about $2.00 USD per month. I like to stay in the DDR3 range of equipment because those are not nearly the same price for units using DDR4 or higher, and as far as performance goes, are still on the green of newer DDR4 & 5 units. Plenty enough computing power to handle a lot of Docker containers, etc.