I’ve gotten into selfhosting and have 3 mini PC’s
ODROID H4+ for TrueNAS
One for Home Assistant
and another for Immich and Nextcloud
They’re all just plugged into the router my ISP provided with network cables.
I’d like to get a managed switch or a router of my own that can function as a switch and router
I’ll be putting everything in a 10" rack at some point so it has to fit.
Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated, I’ve done some research and looked at options but unsure what is right/wrong
I’m especially stuck on what Hardware to get.
Is 2.5ghz managed switch overkill? Should I get PoE for future use?
What brands are good, what should be avoided?
If you don’t have a specific goal, here are some ideas.
Build a NAS.
Use a bunch of small PCs or pis, build a CA, a DNS server. Make an db server and an app server.
Get shit running on your network.
Suit them all up with ELK stack.
Misbehave on your own network. Go find evidence for your misbehaving.
DoS yourself.
Without goals it’s tough to give ideas beyond general like this.