A practical home server setup shows dust, reuse, and cloud-cost tradeoffs
A dusty, sandy home environment can make basic air cleaning part of server care. A Mi Air Purifier 4 Lite sharply reduced dust, sand, and stone-like sediment around the setup.
The 7010 was retired, and an older HP EliteDesk 800 G2 became the new server. Instead of buying new memory, two 2GB sticks were moved from the Optiplex into the HP, bringing it to 12GB total.
The HP has a 4th gen i5 with 4 cores, 8 threads, and an iGPU, and it also serves TV use, so it runs Budgie as a light desktop environment. The server is meant to host kodeyard.com, weggo.org, and a client site after moving away from .
Key points
- An air purifier reduced dust and sand buildup around gear.
- The 7010 was replaced by an HP EliteDesk 800 G2 for .
- Two reused 2GB sticks raised the HP server to 12GB total.
- The HP also supports TV use thanks to its iGPU and runs the light Budgie desktop environment.
- Several websites are being moved from to the .