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?

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    If that’s all you want to do, one of the cheaper Ubiquiti managed gateways would probably work and not break the bank.

    If you want to tinker even harder, an open source router running https://openwrt.org/ (or even their own device) may be a good option.