Topton N100 – Cost effective Router/Firewall
CPU Specs Specs Slightly more expensive but better cooling
2-Bay NAS N1 AMD
Topton 2-Bay NAS N1 AMD Athlon 300U 4x GbE LAN, is a nice NAS unit that can be upgraded to 32 GB of RAM and can hold two HDDs or two SDDs up to 20 TBs per slot.
AMD Ryzen Soft Router – 8 CPU Router
Topton AMD Ryzen 4×2.5G Soft Router, is a powerful router or mini server with up to 8 cores 16 threads and a low TDP of 15 Watts. It sells for $340 for the 6 core, no ram no storage up to $429 for 8 cores 16 threads with 4.5 GHz.
Best Splunk Alternative – Gravwell
If your using Splunk or need a way to aggregate logs and do searches. Gravwell says they provide everything out of the box, with much better features and only 14 GB per day limit compared to Splunk Free.
Build your own server 32 CPU 128 GB
For around $1000 dollars you could have a pretty robust server that you can run Proxmox Virtual Environment and run hundreds of VMs or LXCs to self host your applications. You could virtualize your NAS, by running TrueNAS or other virtual NAS inside of Proxmox.
GoWin R86s
Gowin R86S (aka GW-R86S) is an affordable Intel Celeron N5100 or Pentium N6005 Jasper Lake mini PC, router, and firewall appliance with 2.5GbE and 10GbE networking that sells for $310 and up on Aliexpress.
Best Free Self Hosted Email Server with ActiveSync
Running email sever is not the easiest thing to do, as it involves many components like SMTP, DNS, Email Client, SPF, DKIM, deliverability issues but sometimes its nice as you can purchase a domain name or leverage the domain you already have and create whatever email address you want.
Its also nice to have complete privacy over your emails, as leveraging free email servers they have full access to view all your emails.
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Zimbra & ActiveSync
There are other solutions out there Mail-in-a-Box, mailcow, iRedMail, Modoboa and Kopano. However I have been using Zimbra Open Source Edition for a few years now and enjoy the web interface for administration of the system, it makes it easy to add