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I am a big fan of "mini desktop" computers for this sort of task (my lemmy instance is running on one). You can usually pick them up used/refurbished for pretty cheap with decent specs: i5 or better processors, upgradeable RAM (SO-DIMM), M.2 or 2.5in SSD. They are quite small, and relatively low power. I have a few in my homelab, and one acting as my media-center PC in my living room.
You're right, just having one mini-pc with Proxmox and being able scale VMs between applications is a lot better than a collection of sbc's. I will look at the used market.
I second this. I used to use Raspberry Pis but one mini PC can do so much more and isn’t much more expensive.
Yeah, maybe I was rough on them but I killed like 2 Pis in a year running OpenELEC/LibreELEC (even with heatsinks) before I bought an Nvidia Shield (which was great until Google forced terrible things onto it and Nvidia seemingly stopped supporting it). I grabbed one out of my homelab and I've just been running straight Ubuntu on it for about 6 months at this point and wouldn't dream of going back.
Depending on how much power it uses and how much power costs in your area, it can sometimes end up cheaper to use a VPS. You can get a good VPS for less than $50/year especially during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales on Lowendtalk.com.