been thinking about buying a server to host little personal projects and just experiment and stuff. any suggestions on affordable hobbyist servers?

Depends on what you need to host, even a raspberry pi might be enough.

What are you going to do on it?
If it is just web stuff I'd recommend getting a Raspberry Pi.

If you want something dedicated and public Zuver is who I use and they are really good and of very high value for their price. Not sure if they are Australia only though. https://zuver.net.au/

@Kirito-kun @qwerty77asdf mostly (almost all) web stuff. definitely want to be able to do public hosting. I have a raspberry pi zero but I don't think that's quite powerful enough to run anything real on full-time

🗡 Following.

I built a server out of second hand parts on eBay for about $600 CAD. Dual socket board with two X5670 chips, 16 GB of RAM (1333MHz sadly) and two 2TB WD Green hard-drives.

For web stuff that might be a bit much tho... Maybe try the latest Raspi? They're fairly decent, if you're only gonna be running a web server. Or maybe use an old laptop?

I've actually been drooling over this bad boy

https://ebay.com/itm/...

ended up saying "fuck it" and buying that Dell server ^^

I'm hype